Essays about: "Kerala"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 31 essays containing the word Kerala.

  1. 16. "I expected a male reporter" : a qualitative interview-study of the Kerala working culture in media newsrooms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Journalistik

    Author : Sofia Hermansson; [2017]
    Keywords : movements; femininity; embodiement; Gendered spaces; strategies; female empowerment; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is a qualitative interview-study of the working conditions for female journalists within an Indian and Keralan context focusing on the female body and spaces. The study takes place in the Keralan society focusing on how women journalists cope with working in a traditional male dominated area and how the female body somehow is seen as an invader in the journalism field, based on pre-assumptions on sex and gender and female placement. READ MORE

  3. 17. (No) Touching Discourse in Indian PE : A study on the physical interactions between PE teachers and their students in the Indian state of Kerala

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID)

    Author : Lina Grell; Anutida Holmgren; [2017]
    Keywords : Physical Education; intergenerational touch; physical interaction; no touch; Foucault; discourse; moral panic; gender; Kerala; India;

    Abstract : This study was conducted in the Indian state Kerala, among 15 physical education (PE) teachers. The aim of this study was to investigate intergenerational touch in the daily work of Indian PE teachers, and more precisely whether or not the teachers thought intergenerational touch was an issue and what their views on this subject were. READ MORE

  4. 18. Missing Women Found On Historical Tea Plantations: Evidence From British India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Victoria Bahar Towliat; [2016]
    Keywords : sex imbalance tea production female survival East India Company; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : It has been previously shown that an increase in the relative value of tea increases female survival rate by enhancing their economic value. By combining contemporary district-level census data with historical data on tea production, in this paper I examine whether contemporary regional variations in gender disparities across India can be traced back to the tea production induced by the British East India Trading Company in the 19th century. READ MORE

  5. 19. How nurses in Kerala experience caring of terminally ill patients : and how they promote the wellbeing of the patient

    University essay from Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd

    Author : Hanna Johansson; Li Lindberg; [2015]
    Keywords : palliative care; quality of life; caring; patient; loneliness;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to describe how nurses in Kerala experience the caring of terminally ill patients and how the nurses provide care to promote the wellbeing among these patients. Being terminally ill is threatening for the quality of life and palliative care is important to promote the wellbeing of the patient. READ MORE

  6. 20. The prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in urinary isolates from patients visiting a teaching hospital in northern Kerala, India

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för läkarutbildning

    Author : Joakim Santiago Dahlgren; [2015]
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