Essays about: "alienation"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 143 essays containing the word alienation.

  1. 6. Nomadism without Borders: Exploring Connections in Digital Nomad Destinations : An Ethnographic Multiple-Case Study in Malaysia & Colombia

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Joan Boluda Chova; Konstantin Trutz von Ehrlich-Treuenstätt; [2023]
    Keywords : digital nomad; destinations; practices; locals; gentrification; alienation;

    Abstract : Background: Globalization and remote work following COVID-19 have boosted the tourism profiles of lifestyle travelers. Especially digital nomads, individuals that work remotely while traveling. These arising tourists contrast with the mass tourism industry, in the sense that digital nomads stay longer and may engage with local culture. READ MORE

  3. 7. Administrative Transfers by Settler Colonial States and Their Subjugation of Native Populations’ Land Use - A study on mechanisms of settler colonial states in Sweden and Canada during the second half of the nineteenth century

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Cajsa Sjölin; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how administrative transfers by settler colonial states in nineteenth-century Sweden and Canada contributed to the subjugation of indigenous land use. Using qualitative analysis of historical documents and legal sources, the study reveals the pervasive presence of administrative transfers and their implications. READ MORE

  4. 8. Future Imaginaries of Negative Emission Technologies and Folklore Myths in Icelandic Basalt: Provisional Order Emerges from the Possible Magma in the Age of ‘Hauntology’ and Broken Time

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Rikke Jespersen; [2023]
    Keywords : NETs; Desire; Green Capitalism; Imaginaries; Storytelling; Pluriverse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Why do we in the Western part of world today tend to believe in technology’s mythical promises rather than in folklore myths? Imaginaries of the future influence political subjects’ actions in the present and play a key role in composing the trajectory towards the future. I have critically applied this notion to the implementation of negative emission technologies in the climate-neutrality strategy. READ MORE

  5. 9. Do you purchase you-products? A quantitative study analyzing the mediating effects of self-congruence and satisfaction on the purchase intention of masstige home goods

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Kajsa Dahlberg; Vilgot Bergmark; [2023]
    Keywords : Masstige; Self-congruence; Purchase intention; Consumer behavior; Everyday products;

    Abstract : In contrast to earlier times, middle-class consumers are now more inclined to purchase products that offer superior quality and taste. The new middle segment is called "masstige" as it bridges the "mass" production of "prestige" items. READ MORE

  6. 10. Mamlets - A Sustainable Parklet Network in Malmö, Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Javier Ignacio Navarro Puig; [2023]
    Keywords : Urban Recovery; Urban Transformation; Urban Mobility; Urban Sustainability; Social Sustainability; Democratic Design; Material Upcycling; Circular Economy; Arts and Architecture; Technology and Engineering; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Today cities are the result of centuries of history and human development, accelerated during the past 100 years. Post-industrialization, modernism’s top-down city planning approach, and the prioritisation of motor vehicle design over humans resulted in more people moving to cities, more space needed to allocate new vehicles, expansion over rural areas, and exponential pollution growth. READ MORE