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1. 1. Rytmen bor i mina steg : En rytmanalytisk studie om kropp, stad och kunskap

   Författare :Sara Johansson; Irene Molina; Sofia Cele; Katja Tollmar Grillner; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :rhythmanalysis; rhythm; methodology; method; knowledge process; movement; city; walking; body; mind; embodiment; Cartesian dualism; affect; emotion; feeling; senses; touch; sensory ethnography; non-representational theory; phenomenology; new materialism material feminism; situated knowledge; autoethnography; creative reflective experimental narrative writing; memory; rytmanalys; rytm; metodologi; metod; kunskap; rörelse; stad; promenad; kropp; medvetande; förkroppsligande; cartesiansk dualism; affekt; emotion; känsla; sinnen; känsel; sinnlig sensorisk etnografi; icke-representationell teori; fenomenologi; ny materialism materiell feminism; situerad kunskap; autoetnografi; kreativt reflekterande experimentellt narrativt skrivande; minne; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis brings together a fascination with the city and a keen interest in the knowledge process. The point of departure is the bodily, sensory and emotional experience. That the author uses her own perceptions and experiences and is preoccupied with her own knowledge process means that she writes herself into an autoethnographic context. LÄS MER

3. 2. "I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

   Författare :Anna Stibe; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arjun Appadurai; Githa Hariharan; Vikram Chandra; Amit Chaudhuri; the production of locality; work of the imagination; agency; haunting; storytelling; secularism; Indian English literature; cities.; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. LÄS MER

4. 3. Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city

   Författare :Ilda Lourenço-Lindell; Katherine Gough; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; social networks; social capital; informal safety nets; informal sector; informalization; livelihoods; urban food; regulation; social change; structural adjutsment; Guinea-Bissau; West Africa; African cities; ADP; ADB;

   Sammanfattning : Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. LÄS MER

5. 4. Space in motion : the art of activating space in-between

   Författare :Monica Sand; Abdellah Abarkan; Annette Arlander; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; in-between; dispersed production; producer observer; bridge; swing; penelope; Architecture; Arkitektur; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : As a contribution to the emerging field of practice-based research in the arts, this thesis aims to activate space, experience and the concept in-between. As the in-between cannot be defined ahead of the rhythmic process it carries out and of which it is a part – a rhythm inherent in the city itself and in knowledge production – it is necessary to produce rhythmic relations between bodies, sites and concepts. LÄS MER

7. 5. Walking ability, balance and accidental falls in persons with Multiple Sclerosis

   Författare :Ylva Nilsagård; Lars-Gunnar Gunnarsson; Eva Denison; Katrin Boström; Christina H. Opava; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :multiple sclerosis; cooling garment; gait; walking; balance; reliability; validity; accidental falls; prediction; ICF; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Medicin; Medicine;

   Sammanfattning : By using a pragmatic paradigm, different research methodologies were employed in this thesis. MS-related symptoms may be exaggerated due to heatsensitivity and it is supposed that cooling garments relieve the symptoms. LÄS MER