Essays about: "rural sociology and development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words rural sociology and development.

  1. 1. Community-led Development in Rural Areas in Sweden : Narratives Inquiry of Individuals’ Sensemaking Process and Motivations for Participation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Vanessa Kasper; Gräfin Zu Castell-Castell Antonia; [2022]
    Keywords : Community-led development; sensemaking; motivation; narratives; sociology of organization; rural areas; Sweden;

    Abstract : Rural areas across Europe have suffered severe socio- economic consequences of the financial crisis. Community-led development is a promising way of organizing for social innovation in these areas, in collaboration and independently of public actors. READ MORE

  3. 2. Anemia in the Andes - Health promotion and Ethnography in the Northern Peruvian highlands

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

    Author : Max Filip Sundqvist; [2019]
    Keywords : Perú; Health Promotion; Applied Anthropology; Development Anthropology; Sociology; Communication for Development; Latin America; South America; Anemia; Ethnography; Qualitative method; Rural Perú; Social Change; Neo Liberalism;

    Abstract : In this study I will present an investigation conducted at two communities in the northernPeruvian highlands during the months of February and March of 2019. I applied an anthropological perspective to Communication for Development and investigated how health promotion concerning anemia was perceived by different groups (health care workers and Patients) at the communities. READ MORE

  4. 3. The rural : knowing where we are by retracing our steps

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

    Author : David Hallnäs; [2017]
    Keywords : rural; rural studies; rural sociology; rural geography; modernity; postmodernity; relational theory; hybrid theory;

    Abstract : This thesis is a discourse analysis of rural studies literature, both rural soci-ology and rural geography, throughout depicted timely eras of Modernity, Late Modernity, Postmodernity and Relational Rural. It attempts to sort through vast literature, exemplifying a few works and postulating them as attempts under certain eras. READ MORE

  5. 4. The social construction of nature : an explorative investigation of the constructed meaning of nature within four national park exhibitions in Austria and Germany

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

    Author : Sarah Wendl; [2016]
    Keywords : social construction of reality; nature; national parks; exhibitions;

    Abstract : Nature is and has always been a highly discussed concept. Over centuries, its meaning, appreciation and perception has changed. Today, facing global warming and other environmental problems, a deeper reflection about our general understanding of the concept of nature seems more necessary than ever. READ MORE

  6. 5. Vägen till ett modernt Tomelilla : en studie av en landsbygdskommun och dess förändring över tiden

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

    Author : Lina Brinte; [2012]
    Keywords : modernitet; landsbygdssamhällen; järnväg; samhällsförändring;

    Abstract : Den här studien beskriver tre brytpunkter som inte bara påverkat Sveriges historia utan även gjort Tomelilla kommun till det moderna samhälle det är idag. Jag har fokuserat på följande brytpunkter: när skiftesreformerna moderniserade jordbruket, när kommunikationer och då främst järnvägen banade vägen för handel och nya möten, och sist har jag diskuterat effekterna av den rationalisering och strukturomvandling som skedde efter andra världskriget. READ MORE