Essays about: "communal coping"

Found 3 essays containing the words communal coping.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Apart not alone while we #workfromhome: Tweeters Online Communal Coping with Involuntary Remote Work During COVID-19

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Saralie Sernhede; [2020]
    Keywords : Social media; Twitter; hashtag; communal coping; remote work; COVID-19;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the role of social media in communal coping. Specifically, it explores the role of Twitter in the communal coping with stressors affecting a global population due to the COVID-19 pandemic disease, with the purpose of answering the main research question: How is Twitter being used as a platform for online coping with the common stressor of involuntary teleworking from home during a pandemic? Through a mixed methods analysis of Twitter content collected from two weeks in April 2020, this thesis examines how Tweeters are connecting with each other through the hashtag #workfromhome in order to cope with stressors involved with working remotely from their homes. READ MORE

  4. 3. Coping with climate variability in West Pokot, Kenya: The influences of land use on responses to climate variability, by pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in arid and semi-arid areas of West Pokot, Kenya.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Lotje Geutjes; [2015-03-09]
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    Abstract : Many pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in semi-arid and arid areas in East Africa, face the challenge of climate change, while the pressure on land is increasing and at the same time land use changes are ongoing. This study focuses on the influences of land use change on the responses to climate variability, by applying the contextual vulnerability framework on the case study of West Pokot in Kenya for the comparison of pastoralist (mainly communal ownership of land) and agro-pastoralist (mainly privatised land) communities. READ MORE