Essays about: "Imagination as social practice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Imagination as social practice.

  1. 1. Children’s sense of place : What places and aspects are important to children in the process of generating a sense of place?

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Tinde Strand; [2023]
    Keywords : Sense of place; Urban planning; Child-friendly city;

    Abstract : A city user that is often neglected in these fast urban transitions is the children. Even if Swedish planning offices aim to increase the focus on children, they are hindered by a lack of knowledge, leading to adult-created places not rooted in children's actual needs. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mbusa-Making : An Artistic Practice of Well-being Among the Bemba of Zambia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Ariadni Christopoulou; [2021]
    Keywords : emotional well-being; agency; personhood; imagination; well-being practice; intimacy; belonging;

    Abstract : This thesis is a contribution to a broader interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which emotional well-being manifests in communal contexts. Using the artistic practice of Mbusa-making among the Bemba of Zambia as a case study, it understands emotional well-being as a relational practice and a dynamic process, not as an attained goal, an affective state, or a static situation. READ MORE

  4. 3. Domesticating the period-tracking app in everyday life : a case study of Easy Period in the Chinese context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Yuhong Xu; [2020]
    Keywords : Easy Period; menstrual technology; period-tracking; self-tracking; everyday life; gender script; domestication theory; China; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Recent years have seen great changes to Chinese women’s period-tracking practice, shifting from the method of pen and paper to smartphone applications, and from women-only practice to practice involves men. This study explores such transformations by looking at a specific app named Easy Period in China and users practice with it by using qualitative methods (textual analysis and semi-structured interviews). READ MORE

  5. 4. In Search of a Stressful Free Life: An Examination of Chinese Lifestyle Migration to Denmark

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Yajie Ma; [2018]
    Keywords : lifestyle migration; Chinese new migrants; Denmark; decision process; social imagination; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the Chinese lifestyle migration practice in Jutland of Denmark as a contribution to expanding the categories of Chinese new migrants. The study analyzed ten in-depth interviews on the lifestyle migration practice with Chinese migrants in Denmark. READ MORE

  6. 5. Que(e)rdenker*innen united :politicizing ecological grief within Western cultures of unsustainability through impulses from queer ecological theory and practice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Judith Petra Mühlbacher; [2018]
    Keywords : ecological grief: queer ecology; master identity; art-based research; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Jegliche Auseinandersetzung mit ökologischer Literatur suggeriert, dass wir uns aufgrund des anthropogenen Klimawandels in einem Zeitalter bisher ungesehener ökologischer Verluste befinden. Eine häufige Reaktion darauf ist ökologische Trauer. READ MORE