Essays about: "life on countryside"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 51 essays containing the words life on countryside.

1. 21. Integration på den mångkulturella landsbygden : om nyanlända i Ngoma, Uganda

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

   Author : Denis Bisaso; [2018]
   Keywords : kultur; identitet; språk; integration; Uganda; nyanlända;

   Abstract : Uganda som världens nionde största flyktingmottagande land har många nyanlända. Många av dessa hamnar av olika anledningar på landsbygden, bl.a. för att det är där de flesta flyktingbosättningar är placerade men också för att en del nyanlända föredrar att etablera sig på landsbygden. READ MORE

3. 22. A Room of One's Own Delivery - A Study of Rural Identity in Sweden, and the Emancipatory Potential of Vulnerability in Resistance

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

   Author : Marit Stigson; [2018]
   Keywords : rural; identity; gender; vulnerability; resistance; Sollefteå; occupation; birthing clinic; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study examines the political and popular discourse that constructs the identity of the rural citizen in Sweden, and what consequences this discourse has on expectations on, and expectations of rural citizens in Sweden. The study focuses on the closing of the birthing clinic in Sollefteå hospital, Västernorrland county, in January 2017 and the occupation of the ward that followed thereafter. READ MORE

4. 23. Give us this day our daily bread : The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Leonardo Marcondes Alves; [2018]
   Keywords : peasantry; Peasant Pentecostalism; peasantness; moral order; moral economy; multiple livelihood strategies; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; Brazil; campesinato; pentecostalismo camponês; campesinidade; ordem moral; economia moral; múltiplas estratégias de subsistência; antropologia econômica; antropologia da religião; Brasil;

   Abstract : This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. READ MORE

5. 24. Migration Stories : A Case Study on the Life Course, Social Networks and Mobility Intentions of Refugees in Hofors

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : John Zetterberg; [2017]
   Keywords : refugee migration; internal migration; countryside; rural; life story interview; life course perspective; social network theory; mobility.;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the mobility intentions of refugees in Hofors. The aim is to apply the theoretical framework of the life course perspective and social network theory; evaluating their suitability in approaching the topic of refugees’ mobility intentions in the Swedish countryside. READ MORE

6. 25. Commons Across Slovak Countryside

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

   Author : Terezia Stevuliakova; [2017]
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   Abstract : Culture houses in Slovak villages, remnats of the former Soviet Union and other countries of Eastern Bloc, provides spaces for events and meetings that bring people together. 2 The project aims to explore how culture and spaces for it can ground other developing projects in a particular physical, social and historical context and enable users to become active in the present transformation of place and to mediate more diverse life in rural areas. READ MORE