Essays about: "gift economy."

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  1. 1. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Edda Ahrent; [2021]
    Keywords : Anne Carson; hermeneutics; Massumi; Kristeva; Greenblatt; literary criticism; poetry; affect; play; intertextuality; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Enskild firma, aktiebolag eller både och? : skatteskillnader och andra effekter i lantbruksföretag

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Erik Bertilsson; Albin Skure; [2019]
    Keywords : aktiebolag; enskild firma; företagsform; ägarskifte; generationsskifte; mjuka värden; risk; lönsamhet; lantbruksföretag; företagsledning; skatt;

    Abstract : Rationaliseringen av svenskt jordbruk leder till större enheter och högre omsättning, vilket gör valet av företagsform allt viktigare för lantbruksföretagare. Aktiebolag för driften ökar i popularitet hos lantbruksföretagare. READ MORE

  5. 4. Corruption in a Culture of Štela: Understanding Informal: Transactions in Bosnia and Hercegovina

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Leila Farjani; [2016]
    Keywords : Bosnia; Corruption; Transparency International; Living Law: Legal Pluralism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The focus of this thesis is to explore why petty corruption dominates and persists in Bosnian society despite the major anti-corruption efforts of Bosnian government and international organisations. By approaching corruption from a social-legal perspective, this thesis aims to explore the local experiences, social norms and morality of informal transactions in Bosnian society. READ MORE

  6. 5. Triggering a gift economy

    University essay from Konstfack/Experience Design

    Author : Pomme van Hoof; [2013]
    Keywords : Gift economy; reciprocity; experience design; community; resilience; alternative currencies; triggering behaviour; systems thinking; social change.;

    Abstract : What would happen if, the systems we deal with everyday, and the situations we find ourselves in, could trigger us to give something to someone else? This work started by exploring the theme of  money systems and social structures and the ambition to find alternatives for our current economic system, which has failed in several ways. People all over the world are already coming up with alternatives that can supplement and stabilize our money-monoculture and that give new meaning to currency. READ MORE