Essays about: "gift-economy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word gift-economy.
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1. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : 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
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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 etnologiAbstract : 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
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3. Triggering a gift economy
University essay from Konstfack/Experience DesignAbstract : 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
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4. “Heavy” file sharers’ and “heavy” activists’ values and attitudes toward file sharing and intellectual property rights
University essay from Medier och kommunikationAbstract : “Heavy” file sharers’ and “heavy” activists’ values and attitudes toward file sharing and intellectual property rights are analyzed in this thesis, with a focus on the conflict between property owners and non-owners. The purpose of this MA thesis is to investigate the perception of file sharing and intellectual property rights on the Internet. READ MORE
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5. The good and the gratis : A value aspect on free goods and services
University essay from FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Thanks to the Internet, the consumers have access to a world of information and can easily compare the goods and services of one supplier to the other, and so be a part of the value creating process. Price is still key, but since producers are already pushing their costs to the limit, what Chris Anderson calls the “race to the bottom” they have to compete in other manners, meaning they have to dive deeper than lowest of prices. READ MORE
