Essays about: "Ethnography fieldwork"

Showing result 31 - 34 of 34 essays containing the words Ethnography fieldwork.

  1. 31. Performing spaces; Structures of Control and Claims of Rights in sites of ‘Irregularity’

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Linus Kullving; [2011]
    Keywords : Irregular migration; Clandestinity; Unaccompanied children; Deportability; Acts of citizenship; Autonomy of migration; Critical theory; Critical Ethnography; Action research; Arendt; Agamben; Malmö;

    Abstract : In dialogue with Critical perspectives in the field of Forced migration, this thesis aims to explore the spaces of „irregularity‟ regarding unaccompanied minors living non-status in the city of Malmö. With a theoretical departure in the ontological ideas of Hanna Arendt and Giorgio Agamben, the perspective of the Autonomy of Migration, and the concepts of „Acts of Citizenship‟, the thesis argues that these spaces are structured by multiple mechanisms of control, such as deportability, racism, poverty and precarity. READ MORE

  3. 32. Film for Change, Communication Rights and Social Change in Tanzania

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Soren Sonderstrup; [2011]
    Keywords : film for change; right to communicate; theatre for development; applied visual anthropology; participatory methods; social innovation; documentary film; ethnography; politics of representation; ICT4D; discourse analysis; imaginative leeway;

    Abstract : The thesis presents a view of film for change set against the manifold approaches, practices or ideologies influencing it, and analysis it as a tool for the self-representation, self-determination and mediation of marginalised people in the face of globalization and the democratization of communication. It seeks to find an answer to the question of how film for change works as a method to empower the disadvantaged inhabitants of three villages in Tanzania, where fieldwork was carried out. READ MORE

  4. 33. Waves of Disaster – Waves of Relief : An Ethnography of Humanitarian Assistance to Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

    University essay from Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Jesper Bjarnesen; [2006]
    Keywords : Tsunami; Sri Lanka; humanitarian assistance; disaster; suffering; ;

    Abstract : Abstract This paper applies an impressionistic and reflexive genre of ethnography to understand the ethnographer’s meeting with the humanitarian aid workers in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. It offers an analysis of the political atmosphere in the country prior to the tsunami as a central framework for understanding current tensions and debates over the distribution of tsunami aid resources, and traces the emergence of what has been termed Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism. READ MORE

  5. 34. Personas and Ethnography within a commercial context

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik

    Author : Tommy Mossberg; [2001]
    Keywords : Wireless Information Device; Design Methods; Usability; Ethnog raphy; Personas; 3G; Shifting Contexts.;

    Abstract : Abstract: ***************************************************** There are several challenges to bridge when designing useable software for mobile devices. The information devices of tomorrow are going to be used in constantly changing contexts and they are going to be designed to enable a mass market for mobile communication. READ MORE