Essays about: "Economic Imaginary"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Economic Imaginary.

1. 1. Multiple Futures, Diverse Paths : A Study of How Vietnamese Blockchain Professionals Imagine, Enact andNegotiate Futures

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Ossian Nordgren; [2023]
   Keywords : Blockchain; Web3; Vietnam; Future Imaginaries; Value; Emerging Technologies;

   Abstract : 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

3. 2. The Illumination of Money : An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Anton Angwald; [2023]
   Keywords : infrastructure; payment; bitcoin; financial inclusion; el salvador; future imaginaries; speculation; infrastruktur; betalning; bitcoin; finans; el salvador; framtidsstudier; spekulation; pengar;

   Abstract : 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

4. 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 studier

   Author : Louise Bäckemo Johansson; [2022-08-23]
   Keywords : Cuba; Everyday life; grievability; precarity; precariousness; young adult Cubans; uncertainty; U.S. blockade; U.S. embargo; Covid-19 pandemic;

   Abstract : 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

5. 4. "If they win, we disappear": An interview study of local mining opposition in northwestern Ecuador

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : John Jederlund; [2022]
   Keywords : Social Anthropology; Mining; Extractivism; Cultural politics; Ecological imaginary; Development; Social fabric; Social Sciences; Agriculture and Food Sciences; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : 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

6. 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 medier

   Author : Jeannette Longo; [2021]
   Keywords : teachers; media; news; social imaginary; emotional labor; representation; political economy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : 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