Sökning: "social worlds"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 245 avhandlingar innehållade orden social worlds.
1. Underwater Worlds : An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I investigate relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. I introduce the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land. LÄS MER
2. Temporalitet och social ordning : en tidssociologisk diskussion utifrån vårdpersonals uppfattningar om handlingsmöjligheter i arbetet
Sammanfattning : The primary aim of the thesis is to develop a theoretical frame of reference concerning the significance of temporality for social order, how it is created, maintained and how it can be changed in interaction. The theoretical frame of reference is developed gradually and is considered as heuristic. Emphasis is placed on temporal orientation, i.e. LÄS MER
3. Temporalitet och social ordning
Sammanfattning : The primary aim of the thesis is to develop a theoretical frame of reference concerning the significance of temporality for social order, how it is created, maintained and how it can be changed in interaction. The theoretical frame of reference is developed gradually and is considered as heuristic. Emphasis is placed on temporal orientation, i.e. LÄS MER
4. Local Worlds : Rural Livelihood Strategies in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Sammanfattning : Local perceptions and livelihood strategies have in this study been examined through extensive fieldwork in two villages in rural Pondoland in the former homeland Transkei in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. Using a bottom-up perspective, changes in livelihoods and the processes involved in choosing between and combining various types of livelihood activities are analysed. LÄS MER
5. Digitalising Tax, The Kenyan Way : The Travels and Translations of ITax in Kenya
Sammanfattning : Kenya, as with other developing countries, has joined the global bandwagon of using digital technologies to increase domestic revenues. Within the new strategies, lie great potential in achieving sustainable development, however, the shift is happening quite rapidly and has been made mandatory within a short period of time. LÄS MER