published_or_final_version / Criminology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / Sociology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary (Canada), 2002.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Also available in print.

Syftet med studien är att få ökad kunskap om hur professionella upplever att hästunderstödda insatser (HUI) bidrar till utveckling hos individer. Den metodologiska utgångspunkten för undersökningen är en kvalitativ ansats med hermeneutiskt perspektiv, datainsamlingen utgick från semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studiens resultat visar att intervjupersonerna använder hästen som ett pedagogiskt verktyg i arbetet med individerna de möter och att HUI kan bidra till individens lärande och utveckling. Resultatet visar att HUI fokuserar på det friska hos individen och att de professionella arbetar ur ett holistiskt perspektiv, vilket överensstämmer med KASAM som är den teori som studien har utgått ifrån. Slutsatsen av studien är att HUI kan hjälpa individer i lärande och utveckling både när det kommer till psykisk och fysisk hälsa.

This study examines the modern history of the Hui to understand how China, a multiethnic empire-turned-nation-state, has shaped and been shaped by its many “others,” particularly its ethnic and religious minorities. The Hui, as millions of Chinese-speaking Muslims scattered throughout China are known, are unique among the People’s Republic of China’s 55 officially recognized minorities in sharing nothing in common other than a religious identity, Islam. Moreover, unlike Tibetans and Mongolians in the PRC and many minorities in other post-imperial states, the Hui inherited no system of representation from the dynastic era. This lack of political institutionalization through the Qing reign should draw attention to what remains an underexamined period in Hui history—from the fall of the Qing to the founding of the PRC in 1949—and an unexamined question—How did the Hui become a nation? Focused on the large, inland province of Henan, Hui Nation tells this story. I show that Hui nationhood was not simply an elaboration of Communist ethnic policy but rather the consequence of a bottom-up social movement. Incorporating cultural and organizational change into social history, I further argue that this movement hinged on changes in Huis’ understanding of Islam and in the institutions that connected them to one another in the first half of the twentieth century.