Essays about: "the Karen people"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words the Karen people.

  1. 1. En plats mellan förut och sedan : om tillfällig användning av stadens vaga platser

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Lisa Hultberg; [2020]
    Keywords : terrain vague; vaga platser; loose space; praktisk gestaltning; signalobjekt; spontan användning; stadsomvandling; Norra Sorgenfri;

    Abstract : Huvudtemat i mitt projekt har varit den vaga platsen, rummet som inte gestaltats utan uppstått som resultat av förfall eller omvandling av stadslandskapet. Teoretikern och arkitekten Ignasi de Solà-Morales benämnde dessa platser terrain vague, ett begrepp som varit riktningsvisande i mitt projekt. READ MORE

  3. 2. Peacebuilding In Myanmar: A Case Study of State Influence on Civil Society in Karen State

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Mara van der Kamp; [2019]
    Keywords : Civil Society; State Influence; Peacebuilding; Democratization; Myanmar; NGOs;

    Abstract : Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has been going through a democratization process since 2011, despite different stages of conflict in several regions. In Karen State the main ethnic armed group, has signed the National Ceasefire Agreement in 2015. With the democratization process came a lot of changes for civil society. READ MORE

  4. 3. Adaptation Narrative Analysis. A Learning-centered Appraisal Method for Ecosystem-based Adaptation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Karen Pilgrim; [2019]
    Keywords : Ecosystem-based Adaptation; climate resilience; adaptive capacity; narrative; appraisal; learning; adaptation narrative analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) seeks to combine climate change adaptation, socio-economic development and climate change mitigation benefits through the use of ecosystem services and biodiversity. Embedded in socio-ecological-systems, EbA efforts need to overcome challenges posed by complexity, uncertainty, long time horizons and interdisciplinarity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Being of Transit: Central American and Mexican Migrants’ Experiences of (Dis)Possession

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

    Author : Ricardo Alberto Ortega; [2016]
    Keywords : transit; dispossession; materiality; posthumanist performativity; mobility; violence;

    Abstract : The thesis is based on the ethnographic fieldwork done during February 2015 in a place where aspects of transitory life are configured in an effort to (re)humanize those migrants that have been exposed to harm and (dis)possession, and thus entangled within an undesirable physical reality. Empirical attention is dedicated to the ways and means in which a particular migrant shelter located in the border region of Mexico-US operates and fulfills its purpose. READ MORE

  6. 5. Action Repertoires in the Face of Downsizing

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Karen Van Der Linde; Magdalena Junge; [2015]
    Keywords : EVLN; downsizing; Coping strategies; uncertainty; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this research is to gain an increased understanding of employees’ experienced uncertainty and their coping strategies in the face of downsizing. We discovered that employees in an uncertain situation develop and pursue varying coping strategies. READ MORE