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1. 1. “Close Enough”: A Cultural Analysis of Plant-Based Meat Consumption in Everyday Food Practices

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Sahra Rosenkvist; [2019]
   Keywords : meat; meat substitutes; animal-based meat; plant-based meat; performance; practice; commensality; narrative theory; semiotics; memory; food memory; ritual; myth; embodied memory; mocked meat; meat analogs; plant-based eating; MACA; food; food studies; cultural analysis; cultural habits; Law and Political Science; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Agriculture and Food Sciences; Business and Economics; Social Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Et binlerce yıl insanoğlunun ortak gıdalarından biri ve günlük yemek uygulamalarıyla ilgili olarak farklı kültürlerde gıda hafızasının önemli bir parçası olmuştur. Günümüzde hayvan bazlı etin (ABM) ikamesi olan bitki bazlı et (PBM), çevre sorunları, hayvan refahı ve insan sağlığı gibi çeşitli motivasyonlarla Kuzey Avrupa'da yaşayan tüketiciler arasında popüler ve yaygın hale gelmiştir. READ MORE

3. 2. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

4. 3. The Ground as a Facilitator of Collaborations: Organizational Design and Cultural Analysis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Onur Gerey; [2019]
   Keywords : co-working; start-up; collaboration; incubator; facilitator; professional community; management; social capital; rational myths; organizational studies; cultural analysis; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is based on the research that I conducted in a co-working space called The Ground, located in Slussen, Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the research is to investigate how The Ground (and other co-working spaces, as well) can become more pro-active in facilitating collaborations, especially inside its own community. READ MORE

5. 4. What is a Food Bank?: A cultural analytical exploration of the paradoxes and potentials of stakeholder definitions and interrelations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Hannah Brown; [2019]
   Keywords : food bank; gift-economy; dramaturgy; philanthropy; altruism; volunteering; donations; food waste; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Summer 2018 I worked with a recycling coalition in the United States to investigate food waste as a topic essential in promoting environmental sustainability. We banded together with QFB, a large food bank, to focus on the problem of food waste in their food rescue process. READ MORE

6. 5. Imagined Futures: A Study of Work-Related Uncertainty in the Corporate Environment

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Elena Manuela Boghian; [2019]
   Keywords : uncertainty; organizational culture; cultural analysis; phenomenology; corporate; precariat; emotions; stress; workplace; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This is a study of uncertainty in the corporate setting from the perspective of individual employees. While some interviewees talk about accepting uncertainty as an unavoidable state, others tell stories of dread and anguish, associated with instability in the work environment. READ MORE