Essays about: "Difficult Histories"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Difficult Histories.
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1. Results Measurement of Livelihood Interventions in the Humanitarian Field, using a Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) to analyze the Economic Rate of Return (ERR) of an income-generating activity (IGA) project in a post-disaster setting, in San Andres Osuna, Guatemala
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : There is limited evidence-based data on income-generating interventions, both within thehumanitarian and the development field. Nevertheless, there is a growing and unavoidable nexus between the two fields, and therefore also, within their methodologies for measuring project intervention results, as well as their success rates. READ MORE
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2. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMAbstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE
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3. Resolving Higher-Order Conflicts in Edit History Refactoring
University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)Abstract : When committing source code changes to a version control system, these changes might affect more than one of several tasks connected to the project. This can have a bad impact on analysis of changes. It can also make it difficult to reuse or undo previous changes, or difficult to understand the evolution of software. READ MORE
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4. Interactive histories : How might interactive exhibtion elements improve the understanding of Islamicate history?
University essay from Institutionen DesignhögskolanAbstract : What if the objects in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin could talk?All the artefacts are there for a reason. But especially in a historic exhibition on another culture those reason can be extremely difficult to see. Why look at a shagged old carpet? More than 4 million Muslims live in Germany today. READ MORE
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5. The Hidden Face of Urbanity - Morphological Differentiation of Degraded and Restituted Towns in Poland in the Context of the Efficacy of the National Administrative System
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : This master’s thesis deals with the concept of urbanity in Poland, where it coincides with a judicial, administrative understanding of urbanity. A specific of the Polish administrative system is that it utilizes town privileges – a mediaeval remnant – to symbolically define formally urban areas. READ MORE
