Sökning: "urban anthropology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 uppsatser innehållade orden urban anthropology.
1. Nairobi on Board: Skateboarders' Sensory Experiences of Community, Body, and Space
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiSammanfattning : In this paper, I argue skateboarding to be a ritualizing performance that acts as a catalyst for transformative energies and heightened emotional states. Aided by the sensory experience of riding a board, powerful feelings of connectedness and unity arise amongst those who practice skateboarding, so intense that they transgress day-to-day social boundaries and temporarily overcome the socioeconomic segregation of ordinary urban life. LÄS MER
2. Acts of homemaking: materiell antropologi och hemskapande för unga vuxna i Stockholm
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiSammanfattning : This thesis tries to answer how acts of homemaking can manifest with regard to four young adults in an urban environment. The paper takes a closer look at how the material takes form to create meaningful and concrete ways of navigating an uncertain landscape of adulthood in Stockholm, Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Constructing the Ideal Parent in Post-Genocide Rwanda : Social Engineering and Informality in Kigali Settlements after Genocide
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumSammanfattning : Previous studies of post-genocide Rwanda illutrates how nation-building and the government’s urgency to break with the past results in aims to rearrange society in order to prevent further violence and hostility. Developmental aims are also embedded in the broader project of post-genocide nation-building, adapted to promote a new and improved way of life after the genocide. LÄS MER
4. People of mountains: An ethnographic study of the effects of emigration on left-behind population in the rural of Azerbaijan
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiSammanfattning : Migration is a globally studied social issue, that can cause changes in the demographic composition of the population and the structure of society. Azerbaijan has been experiencing different waves of migration in the country since gaining its independence. One of the largest waves is the emigration from rural to urban areas. LÄS MER
5. ‘Our own law is making us beggars’ : understanding the marginal experiences of governed, mine-side communities in Mutoko district, Zimbabwe
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentSammanfattning : There is a rising interest in the Global South, to ensure that mineral resources are governed to benefit local communities where they are extracted. The shared Africa Mining Vision and economic aspirations in Zimbabwe seeking to integrate equity in governing and extracting mineral resources reflects such interests. LÄS MER
