Sökning: "social and life-worlds"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden social and life-worlds.
1. From Slaves to Princes : The role of NGOs in the construction of race and ethnicity in Salvador, Brazil
Sammanfattning : Global forms and changes affect all spheres of human life-worlds; not least how we interpret and create systems of meaning in our respective habitats. A merging of global and local reflections and actions often causes ideological transformations and discursive shifts. LÄS MER
2. Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis provides an ethnography and critical phenomenology of undocumentedness in the Swedish context. By attending to the forces and processes that circumscribe the life-worlds of undocumented persons, as well as the phenomenology and essential experiences of their condition, a complex and multi-layered illustration of what undocumentedness is and means is successively presented. LÄS MER
3. Djurens skepnader : Närhet och distans i diskurs och livsvärld
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between humans and animals. In particular, it explores human relations to farm animals, and especially cattle. The empirical and theoretical work is concerned with how animals appear in discourses and how they form part of human life worlds. LÄS MER
4. Money, meanng, power : The global financial market and dexterous communication
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is a theoretical experiment. The aim is to put the social role of the global financial market in a different critical perspective. LÄS MER
5. The Give and Take of Disaster Aid. Social and Moral Transformation in the Wake of the Tsunami in Sri Lanka
Sammanfattning : The act of giving reflects the most basic principles of morality and has therefore constituted a classical anthropological field of inquiry. The importance of giving, receiving and reciprocating for the shaping and consolidation of social relations has long been recognized. LÄS MER