Essays about: "participant observation thesis"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 189 essays containing the words participant observation thesis.
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16. Bridging the past, the present and the future : Ecuadorian indigenous youth defenders’ role in the creation of just social change in Ecuador
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Indigenous peoples are one of the most marginalized social groups in Ecuador. Emerging as a new actor contesting this situation, indigenous youth defenders (IYD) appear to be leading initiatives that promote indigenous rights in the country. READ MORE
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17. Reflections on the economic strategies of private museums. A comparative study of the private museums in Meteora.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskapAbstract : The thesis examines the economic strategies which two private museums of Meteora, the Hellenic Culture Museum and the Natural History Museum of Meteora and Mushroom Museum implement, so as to grasp the economic strategies that private museums in Greece adopt. Utilizing Varbanova’s (2013) framework which places specific emphasis not only on the open-system theory as an efficient way to comprehend the macro-level challenges (in particular the economic crisis and Covid-19, which had been plaguing the two museums for a long time) and opportunities (as the ones that can result from the implementation of a particular legal status in the context of a given cultural policy), but also on the stakeholder and resource-dependence theories, which acknowledge the pivotal role that various actors and resources inside and outside an organization play in museums’ prosperity, the thesis analyzes previous literature that demonstrates economic strategies that (public and private) museums adopt, so as to secure their continuation and thriving. READ MORE
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18. Making Artisanal Gold Miners ‘Investable’ - A Novel Means of ‘Improving’ Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining? A neoliberal eco-governmentality analysis of ‘responsible’ artisanal and small-scale gold mining: the case of the Lake Victoria Gold Programme in Migori County, Kenya
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Objectives: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - a labour-intensive and low-tech mode of minerals extraction and processing - has received increasing attention amidst global commodity booms and its concurrent expansion. Infamously associated with negative social and environmental impacts, responsible mining initiatives have emerged to promote, measure, and enforce sustainable mining practices for ASM. READ MORE
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19. Ethnographic case study on Feminist commodity networks and sisterhood building in Melbourne, Australia
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines feminist commodity networks through an ethnographic case study of QVWC SHOP in Melbourne, Australia. The work is built through an emic perspective on the understanding of selling, producing, and buying through the QVWC SHOP. READ MORE
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20. The Making of "White Spaces" : The construction, disruption, and maintenance of stability in bipolar realities in Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : Bipolar disorder is a condition rarely approached in anthropological research, and even less so through the eyes of people living with the disorder. Therefore, to focus on understanding the experience of the state in-between episodes, here referred to as a “white space”, is rare and in need of further examination. READ MORE
