Essays about: "Urban-rural relations"

Found 4 essays containing the words Urban-rural relations.

  1. 1. Mapping out the problem of vacant houses in Japan : a case study of Kochi prefecture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Julia Olsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Vacant houses; Akiya; Japan; Depopulation; Urban-rural relations; Rural imaginaries; Sense of place theory; Non-human agency; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how local residents in rural Japan navigate the phenomenon of vacant houses (akiya), to understand the impact it has on their sense of place. The study is based on fieldwork conducted in Kochi prefecture, and relies on data from interviews, documents, photographs, and participant observation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Challenges in women's access to higher education in Pakistan

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Saima Laiqat; [2022-11-25]
    Keywords : Higher Education; Women education in Pakistan; Barriers and Challenges to women education in Pakistan; Women access to higher education;

    Abstract : Aim: Women in Pakistan face many obstacles, challenges, and gender stereotypes in their educational journey. Therefore, the goal of this research is threefold: to examine the factors that female HE students identify as obstacles and hurdles they have had to overcome to establish themselves in HE; to examine what enables some women to overcome them and successfully establish themselves as HE students; and last to address what gender stereotypes female students in HE have encountered in their educational journey and how they have dealt with them. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sustained Asymmetries: Norrland and sustainable development as envisioned by the ecological modernization and environmental justice discourses

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Lisa Diehl; [2019]
    Keywords : Sustainable development; media representations; Norrland; periphery; discourse analysis;

    Abstract : The gap between rural and urban is widening in ways that reward urban lifestyles and undermine the interests of rural communities. The asymmetrical power relation between rural and urban is relevant in a Swedish context where Norrland, Sweden's northernmost region, is experiencing outmigration and cutbacks in welfare services all the while urban centers in southern Sweden attract innovation, economic capital and an inflow of young, educated people. READ MORE

  5. 4. Knowledge Transition and Ideology in Japan A qualitative sociological case study on individual strategies in Japanese education

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Goran Puača; [2004]
    Keywords : Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis uses a qualitative sociological approach to identify case-specific cultural patterns and strategies among university students in Japan. The qualitative material was collected during a field study in summer 2002 and is presented in four cases. READ MORE