Essays about: "Materiality"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 210 essays containing the word Materiality.

  1. 6. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Jorinde Bosma; [2023]
    Keywords : deer; performativity; agential realism; becoming-with; human animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; posthumanism; choreographies; materiality; biopower; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE

  3. 7. Agree to Disagree? Disentangling ESG Rating Disagreement and its Impact on Stock Returns

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Olof Gustavsson; Theodor Samaras; [2023]
    Keywords : ESG ratings; Disagreement; Stock returns; Risk; Uncertainty;

    Abstract : This study investigates the phenomenon of ESG rating disagreement and its financial implications. Using a sample of the largest firms listed on the Nordic markets, we examined whether disagreement in ESG ratings from five widely used rating agencies between 2018-2022 positively affected the underlying stock returns. READ MORE

  4. 8. Digging up memory : suppressed objects during the dictatorship in Chile 1973–1990

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Marcela Vera Oliva; [2023]
    Keywords : Materiality; agency; memory; counter-memory; Chile; dictatorship; Materialitet; agency; minne; counter-memory; Chile; diktatur;

    Abstract : This work deals with objects suppressed by individual people after the 1973 coup in Chile, due to the repression exerted by the installed civic-military dictatorship. It collects the memories of those who had to get rid of compromising objects to save their lives, pointing out the strategies chosen for this purpose, as well as the places to carry them out. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Negotiation and Crafting of Identity Among Transnational and/or Transracial Adult Adoptees in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : David Asplund; [2023]
    Keywords : Adoption; Identity; Intersectionality;

    Abstract : This master’s thesis will be discussing how nuanced experiences affects the crafting of identity among transnational and/or transracial adult adoptees raised in Sweden from an anthropological perspective.The purpose of this thesis is to show that adoptees craft their identity in numerous and complex ways, one as unique as the other. READ MORE

  6. 10. A Gotlandic Picture Stone Tradition Reconsidered : An analysis and reclassification of the so-called kerbstones

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Cherie Jeanette Larkin; [2023]
    Keywords : Gotland; picture stones; kerbstones; grave settings; edge chains; ritual space; 3D models; Gotland; bildstenar; kantstenar; gravsättningar; kantkedjor; rituellt utrymme; 3D-modeller;

    Abstract : In 1941/42, Sune Lindqvist published his seminal work on the Gotlandic picture stones (Gotlands Bildsteine I & II) in which he included a category of stones that he interpreted as kerbstones. However, Lindqvist’s kerbstones have not received further examination or contextualization to determine the validity of his categorization. READ MORE