Sökning: "places identities"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden places identities.
1. Through the Looking Glass : An Identity-Based View of Place Branding
Sammanfattning : Places of today face intense global competition for crucial resources. Attracting visitors and retaining residents is vital especially for post-industrial cities and rural places facing a loss of traditional industrial jobs, and urbanization and centralization of the population and economy. LÄS MER
2. Språk, diaspora, makt : Flerspråkiga resurser och diasporaidentiteter bland unga vuxna i Sverige
Sammanfattning : Based on three separate studies, this thesis explores diaspora identities among young adult Assyrians/Syrians in Sweden, mediated through language. The focus is on how multilingual young adults use their languages and reflect on their use of language. LÄS MER
3. Consuming and communicating identities : Dietary diversity and interaction in Middle Neolithic Sweden
Sammanfattning : Isotope analyses on human and faunal skeletal remains from different Swedish Neolithic archaeological contexts are here applied as a means to reconstruct dietary strategies and mobility patterns. The chronological emphasis is on the Middle Neolithic period, and radiocarbon dating constitutes another central focus. LÄS MER
4. Global Lifestyles : Constructions of Places and Identities in Travel Journalism
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies representations of globalization by analyzing travel journalism in two magazines from 1982 to 2008. Globalization discourses are studied through an analysis of how places and identities are constructed. LÄS MER
5. Around the Screen : Computer activities in children’s everyday lives
Sammanfattning : The present ethnography documents computer activities in everyday life. The data consist of video recordings, interviews and field notes, documenting (i) 16 students in a seventh grade class in a computer room and other school settings and (ii) 22 children, interacting with siblings, friends and parents in home settings. LÄS MER