Search Results - The Practice of Everyday Life

Tracking everyday change: A guide to process documentation in implementing socio-technical innovation bundles in India by Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Chadha, Deepali, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Puskur, Ranjitha, Goel, Kritika

“…Within the CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality, we implemented an action research project in West Bengal, India to capture the everyday change of smallholder women livestock farmers as they navigate with the climate vulnerabilities they face in their everyday life. …”
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The practice of influencing : how zero waste YouTubers try to influence the reduction of waste through online communities by Oldensjö, Emelie

“…This study investigated how the video sharing social media platform YouTube is used to spread awareness about reduction of waste in individuals’ everyday life through video blogs. These individuals can be seen as influencers, as they can influence others by being a source of information, inspiration and ideas. …”

How rigid business approaches paved the way for inclusive business practices: A case study of innovative milk trading practices aligned with pastoralists by Kihoro, Esther, Crane, Todd A., Lupatu, Habib, Vellema, Sietze

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Urban daily lives and out-of-home food consumption among the urban poor in Nigeria: A practice-based approach by Adeosun, Kehinde Paul, Greene, Mary, Oosterveer, Peter

“…A situated social practice approach is employed to understand how everyday contexts shape practices of out-of-home food vending consumption. …”
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Food policy and the unruliness of consumption: An intergenerational social practice approach to uncover transforming food consumption in modernizing Hanoi, Vietnam by Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid C.O., Raneri, Jessica Evelyn

“…This paper aims to uncover emerging dietary trends by understanding the more hidden dynamics of food consumption in the everyday life of low-income urbanites. We use an intergenerational social practice approach to household food security, focussing on food access and utilization in balancing diet quality and food safety priorities within the context of Hanoi's changing food retail environment. …”
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Beyond transformations: Zooming in on agricultural digitalization and the changing social practices of rural farming in Northern Ghana, West Africa by Abdulai, Abdul-Rahim, Gibson, Ryan, Fraser, Evan D.G.

“…We contribute to the scholarship on DA and rural change by (re)framing the dynamics of the phenomenon through everyday practices. By this approach we aim to steer the DA discourse and policy from the optimistic rural transformations towards the often-overlooked yet critical gradual changes and transitions in the day-to-day life of farmers.…”
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Provisioning healthy and diverse foods to the urban poor in Nigeria : a practice-based perspective on informal ready-to-eat food vending by Adeosun, Kehinde Paul

“…This thesis, therefore, focuses on understanding everyday out of-home food vending and consumption practices among the urban poor and how the health and diversity of supplied food can be improved.…”
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Klimatsmart vardag : en fallstudie av projektet ”Klimatpiloterna i Askersund och Laxå” by Egerlid, Josefin

Barns utemiljöer i Hebron : gestaltningsverktyg för barnperspektiv implementerat på Al Ibrahimyye plats by Hagströmer, Elisabeth

“…A starting point for thesis is that children’s environments in the city should not be separated from city life in general, so that children and adults can meet in the city outdoor environment. …”

Living against the grain of society by Fritz, Diana

“…It does so by focusing on the example of Voluntary Simplicity, a lifestyle movement that advocates for a post-consumerist lifestyle. With the help of practice theory, which is especially fit to analyze everyday practices and change, and a qualitative interview study with seven voluntary simplifiers living in Sweden, I answer the following research questions: What are the motivations and drivers for having a voluntary simplicity lifestyle?…”
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Navigating the delivery of a service by Wickström, Joel

“…The practice perspective also revealed the taken-for-granted stuff of everyday life of environmental consultants’ and how the practice is generated and sustained through them. …”
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Continuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzania by Badstue, Lone B., Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Umantseva, Anya, Kamanzi, Adelbertus, Roeven, Lara

“…The paper demonstrates how the continuous performance, reproduction and renegotiation of gender takes place as part of everyday life, as women and men seek to secure their personal well-being in a context of limited cultural and economic options.…”
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“It’s so much more than just sports…” by Sahlström, Emma

“…This thesis investigates how the public health discourse takes its expression in the municipalities of Vimmerby and Hultsfred, as health has become an imperative guiding the conduct of everyday life. In the understanding of public health having both political and symbolic dimensions, the theoretical framework of Foucault and the concepts of governmentality and biopower are applied to the empirical material by means of qualitative research methods. …”
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Explore carbon sink of bamboo with M+ living lab at Qingshan by Zhen, Yan, Yang, Xiaoneng, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…Finally, it identifies three innovation directions—multi-scale coupling, multi-stakeholder co-creation and a shift from “carbon sink project” to “way of life”—as the core contributions of the Qingshan M+ Living Lab exploration.…”
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Training for change: A facilitator’s guide to gender-inclusive financial literacy and land rights by Abdykadyrova, Buazhar

“…This interactive and practical training facilitates adult learning and aims to build capacities to apply the concepts learned in everyday life. …”
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Börja lyssna! : ljuds betydelse för utemiljön by Wejbro, Maria

Instagram and sustainability by Budiwarman, Caroline

“…Engagement with sustainability also happens on Instagram, as the influencers share their everyday sustainable practices and practical knowledge with their followers. …”
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Connecting to nature in pre-school by Guimarães Gabriel, Amanda

“…Experiences of a group of pre-school children's outdoor environments during pre-school days are explored while assuming the dynamic interrelationship of the physical, social, and organizational characteristics of everyday life related to children's development. The departure is taken in the socioecological framework for human development by Bronfenbrenner, Stokols; Sense of place by Relph and Place-relations literature. …”
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Allocation of governmental authority and responsibility in Tiered governance regimes: the case of the Chivi rural district council landuse planning and conservation by-laws by Mandondo, A.

“…A subsidiary aim is to investigate the practical operation of these by-laws in everyday social life through analysis that situates the effectiveness of by-laws within the theme of proximity to citizens. …”
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Landskapsarkitektur och scenkonst by Björkman Jones, Emma

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