Essays about: "Peasantry"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word Peasantry.

  1. 1. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  3. 2. An Hibernian Tale – Representations of Identity in the Irish Big House Novel

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Ludvig Bertilsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Big House; Irish Literature; Castle Rackrent; The Real Charlotte; Maria Edgeworth; Somerville and Ross; Irish History; Irish Identity; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The genre of the Irish “Big House” novel is one deeply entrenched in historical context. To be unaware of the setting, and the significance of identity within it, lessens the understanding and impact of character, motivations, and conflict in the text. READ MORE

  4. 3. “ESTAMOS ESQUECIDOS”A case study for capabilities in the perspective of small-scale vegetable producers in Southeastern Brazil

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Bruno de Paula; [2022]
    Keywords : Small-scale producers; rural poverty; wellbeing; collective action; peasantry; quality of life; capabilities; food security; food production; family farmers; São Paulo; Brazil;

    Abstract : Global food supply chains have drastically changed over the last decades. Whereas some international firms embedded in the international markets are on the cutting edge of food production processes and technology, small-scale producers do not always experience the same opportunity in accessing such global value chains. READ MORE

  5. 4. Indigeneity as a base for rural development : a case study of the indigenous community Ramada, eastern Bolivia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Line Munk; [2020]
    Keywords : Bolivia; TCOs; Indigenous peoples; Agrarian question; Rural development; Agrarian political economy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. READ MORE

  6. 5. Häxans trädgård : en gestaltning utifrån medicinalväxter i Uppsala Botaniska trädgård

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Linnéa Stöckel; [2019]
    Keywords : folkmedicin; etnobotanik; medicinalväxter; trädgårdshistoria; botare; botanisk trädgård; tematrädgård;

    Abstract : Syftet med det här arbetet var att utifrån litteratur kring trädgårdshistoria, häxor och medicinalväxter, utveckla ett gestaltningsförslag på en tematrädgård i Uppsala Botaniska trädgård. Målet var att trycka på växternas värde i gestaltningar och uppmana både studerande landskapsarkitekter och de redan etablerade inom yrket, att lägga större fokus på växtgestaltningen. READ MORE