Essays about: "everyday rituals"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words everyday rituals.
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1. “I come here to know” : Muslims navigating space, (in)visibility, and fluidity of religious practice in Uppsala, Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This ethnographic study investigates the process of placemaking in the context of the newly built Al-Hamd Mosque as a Muslim place of worship in Uppsala, Sweden. I consider how access to space e.g., a mosque or a prayer room, affects the religious practices of Muslims in their everyday life at work, school, or in public. READ MORE
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2. Six Memories of Food
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This paper examines the relationship between the sensory experience of food and cooking, how these sensory phenomena interact with questions of authenticity and memory and how this affects the process through which migrants rebuild a sense of home in theirhost nations. The data for this study has been collected through a version of short-term ethnography, where the researcher also participated in cooking sessions, which were video-recorded, in conjunction with the interviews. READ MORE
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3. Film clubbing : collective rituals for processing eco-anxiety
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Research shows that an increasing number of people suffer from the emotional consequences arising from the confrontation with climate crisis (CC), often referred to as eco-anxiety. Due to a lack of opportunities to express and process these emotions, a common response is to withdraw from talking about the CC leading to a constructed silence around the topic. READ MORE
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4. Seeing feelingly through the Feet : A Design Space for Microopportunities
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : The thesis consists of autobiographical soma research-oriented design for bringing somatic attention to the feet by the concept of micro-opportunities embedded in external artifacts to defamiliarize experiences. There is a growing body of work within the HCI community reporting on pressure-sensitive prototypes for raising bodily awareness alongside heat as a positive embodied response. READ MORE
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5. Finding Presence of the Absent : To those who are soon forgotten
University essay from Konstfack/ÄdellabAbstract : This paper concerns the ordinary stories. It is about the forgotten and the things that have gone unnoticed. It is about female history and is a political exploration into what and who is allowed to take space. I focus on everyday life in a domestic space, where I see these things that are discarded, often are overlooked and not talked about. READ MORE
