Essays about: "space occupation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the words space occupation.
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1. Wi-Fi fingerprinting as a mean to measure building occupancy : A case study in an office environment
University essay from KTH/TransportplaneringAbstract : The task of collecting visitor data in an indoor environment and therein determining the occupancy of a building is an extensive task. Conventional methods are expensive, time-consuming, and often lack the ability to produce data in longer time series. Further, they often require disruption of the studied area as equipment must be deployed. READ MORE
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2. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle
University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE
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3. Exploring the Everyday Experiences of African Migrant Entrepreneurs in Malmö, Sweden.
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : Entrepreneurship is a common choice of occupation amongst migrants in Malmö. African migrant entrepreneur experiences however, are identified as homogenous to other immigrant groups. READ MORE
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4. POSTCOLONIAL DISSENT SCENOGRAPHY: setting civic scene, building urban voice, new societies prototyping facilitation for Tensta.
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : Urban space is a product of power relations and negotiations in society. Who gets represented and monumentalised in it, you? One is being formed and deformed by the environment they are placed into through the way it functions and suggests certain actions in a particular sequence, through the power distribution in its spatial equivalent. READ MORE
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5. Forgotten Practices: A case study of social struggles in agrarian Uppsala, and its implications for Swedish farming
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : This thesis set out to map the relation Swedish farmers have to their occupation and production, while also investigating what challenges farmers experience which in turn might affect social sustainability in Swedish agriculture negatively. Agriculture was approached as a case of low social sustainability based on the fact that more than one-third of Swedish farmers are over retiring age, while young people increasingly seem to move away from the sector. READ MORE
