Essays about: "Economic Imaginary"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Economic Imaginary.
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1. Multiple Futures, Diverse Paths : A Study of How Vietnamese Blockchain Professionals Imagine, Enact andNegotiate Futures
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis dives into the future imaginaries of blockchain professionals in Hanoi and Saigon. Looking at sites of futures enactment, and constant negotiations around an emerging technology, economy, and start-up ecology. READ MORE
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2. The Illumination of Money : An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : Money can be understood as a disembedding mechanism, detaching social relations from a spatiotemporal context. However, different infrastructural instantiations of money make visible–and invisible–different qualities of money. READ MORE
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3. “NO ESTAMOS VIVIENDO, ESTAMOS SOBREVIVIENDO”: A qualitative study of experiences of everyday life of young adult Cubans
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This thesis investigates how young adult Cubans describe their experiences of everyday life. The study situates itself in the timeframe of the Covid-19 pandemic and in light of the U.S. blockade towards Cuba, within a framework of Global Studies. READ MORE
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4. "If they win, we disappear": An interview study of local mining opposition in northwestern Ecuador
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : In the contemporary globalised era, social and economic development is being increasingly associated with extractivism. Opening up resource markets to multinational extractive industries is a common strategy used by Latin American states for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty. READ MORE
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5. Emotional expectations of educators : the social imaginary and emotional labor of teachers in American news media
University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medierAbstract : Drawing on Charles Taylor’s modern social imaginary, this study offers a perspective for understanding how teachers are represented and characterized in American news media. Specifically, I study the way the social imaginary of teachers contributes to the performance of Arlie Russell Hochschild’s notion of emotional labor. READ MORE