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161	Transforming the Ricescape / A Case Study from Burkina Faso Hauer, Janine 01 July 2024 (has links) Unter dem Druck zunehmender Ressourcenknappheit konzentrieren sich inter- und transnationale Optimierungsanstrengungen für effiziente Land- und Wassernutzung insbesondere auf den Globalen Süden. Raumentwicklungsinstrumente wie Wachstumspole und Entwicklungskorridore, die Afrikas Landwirtschaft revolutionieren und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung stärken sollen, werden auf dem gesamten Kontinent geplant und umgesetzt. Die vorliegende Arbeit gewährt ethnographische Einblicke in eines dieser Megaprojekte, das Bagré-Wachstumspolprojekt in Burkina Faso. Basierend auf einer insgesamt neunmonatigen Feldforschung werden die historischen und globalen Verflechtungen des Projektes herausgestellt und mit lokalen Arrangements und Aktivitäten analytisch verknüpft. So entsteht ein umfassendes Bild der Entfaltung des Bagré-Wachstumspolprojekts im Spiegel eines globalisierten Reismarktes. Entlang von vier empirisch fundierten ergänzt die Arbeit den Fokus auf (1) lokal-globale Wechselwirkungen um die (2) Analyse des dem Wachstumspolprojekt inhärenten Zukunftsimperativ und die Konsequenzen zeitlicher Ordnungsmuster für die Ausgestaltung konkreter Projektbestandteile. Danach wird (3) dargelegt, wie Praktiken installiert werden, die der Aufrechterhaltung, Stabilisierung und zeitlichen Koordination von Reisproduktionspraktiken dienen. Es schließt sich (4) eine vergleichende Perspektive an, die dem burkinischen Beispiel eine Beschreibung des Reissektors Uruguays an die Seite stellt. In der Zusammenschau entwickeln die Kapitel dieser Arbeit praxistheoretisches Denken in der Humangeographie weiter. Sie leisten einen empirischen Beitrag zur humangeographischen Entwicklungsforschung anhand einer Fallstudie aus dem frankophonen Westafrika und bieten ein vertiefendes Verständnis von Reisproduktionssystemen. / Encountering an increasing global pressure on natural resources, inter- and transnational efforts to optimize water and land use for food production are made and spatial development tools to revolutionize African agriculture are therefore planned and implemented across the continent. This thesis provides ethnographic insights into one such a megaproject: the Bagré Growth Pole Project (BGPP) in Burkina Faso. Based on altogether 9 months of fieldwork it traces the project’s temporal and spatial entanglements. First, it contrasts localized arrangements, activities, and understandings related to rice production with global systemic configurations of a rice economy. Arguing that it is amongst these poles that the BGPP in its specific form unfolds, it suggests a combination of different analytical frameworks to grasp its local-global dynamics. Second, it dissects the future imperative inherent to the BGPP and interrogates its consequences for how the project implementation proceeds. Third, this work sheds light on attempts to coordinate rice production in space and time. It develops the notion of coordination work to account for the practical accomplishment of tuning and timing different actors, activities and arrangements related to rice production. Finally, it adds a comparative moment to the analysis by contrasting Burkina Faso’s rice sector to the rice sector of Uruguay. Altogether the chapters of the thesis advance practice theoretical thinking in human geography. Empirically, the thesis provides firsthand observations of how the BGPP touches ground, thereby reshaping the everyday life and landscape in Bagré. It adds to the growth pole and corridor literature by focusing on francophone West Africa, thereby deepening our understanding of transnational interventions into rice production systems in Africa. Reissektor Burkina Faso Ethnographie Praxistheorie Wachstumspol rice sector Burkina Faso ethnography practice theory growth pole 550 Geowissenschaften 556 Geowissenschaften Afrikas 301 Soziologie und Anthropologie 300 Sozialwissenschaften 303 Soziale Prozesse ddc:550 ddc:556 ddc:900 ddc:301 ddc:300 ddc:303
162	Ring Out Your Dead : Distribution, form, and function of iron amulets in the late Iron Age grave fields of Lovö Mattsson McGinnis, Meghan January 2016 (has links) The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution, forms, and function(s) of iron amulets deposited in the late Iron Age gravefields of Lovö, with the goal of ascertaining how (and so far as possible why) these objects were utilized in rituals carried out during and after burials. Particular emphasis is given to re-interpreting the largest group of iron amulets, the iron amulet rings, in a more relational and practice-focused way than has heretofore been attempted. By framing burial analyses, questions of typology, and evidence of ritualized actions in comparison with what is known of other cult sites in Mälardalen specifically– and theorized about the cognitive landscape(s) of late Iron Age Scandinavia generally– a picture of iron amulets as inscribed objects made to act as catalytic, protective, and mediating agents is brought to light. archaeology Iron Age Late Iron Age Viking Age Viking Studies Vendel period practice theory cognitive archaeology grave goods New Materialism neo-materialism Thor's hammer rings burial analysis post-structuralism Early Medieval medieval studies Scandinavian archaeology Scandinavia Sweden Swedish archaeology Mälardalen cultural history ritual theory ritual rituals studies burial rituals ritualization deviant burial history of religions Old Norse religion Viking Age religion cult places material culture rites of passage amulets magic ancient magic medieval magic pratice praxis
163	”By the iron hand of oppression" : The performance of the parliamentary election contest in Nottingham and Middlesex 1802-1803 Blomgren, Alvar January 2017 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to investigate how politics was done at the level of the parliamentary constituencies at the time of the treaty of Amiens 1802-1803. This is achieved through two case studies of the elections in Middlesex and Nottingham, which are investigated as social practices. This thesis argues that understandings of masculinity and national identity, as well as questions about the nature of the constitution and citizen rights were central to participants in the extraparliamentary political process. Collective emotions were also highly important in the process of mobilising political support, and this thesis emphasises that participation in these elections was a collective effort; men and women from all levels of society were significant political actors. Moreover, this thesis demonstrates the importance of competences such as knowledge about the organisation of crowds and political violence in the performance of the election. Georgian elections political history history of democracy Georgian politics Parlamentary reform reform movement radicals radicalism Pittite repression Gagging acts two acts seditious meetings act treason act habeas corpus suspension act habeas corpus Nottingham Middlesex 1802 general election parlamentary elections controverted elections 19th century nineteenth century treaty of Amiens Joseph Birch Daniel Coke William Mainwaring Francis Burdett Mary Rich Cold Bath prison newspapers citizenship nationality British national identity English national identity gender masculinity independence working-class lower-class crowds women female political propaganda political artifacts vestiary affronts space place power emotions collective emotions solidarity doing politics social practice practice theory practice-as-entity practice-as-performance Elizabeth Shove Ducking spencering Hanoverian History Historia

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