• When the past becomes the future : aspects of cultural revitalization among the Gbaya in Bertoua, East-Cameroon 

      Ndanga, Dieudonné Ngnantare (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-10-22)
      This work is done in a context where groups and associations for culture revitalization flourish in Cameroon. By focussing on the actors, means and challenges of culture revival, I aim to describe the outcome of a process of de-tribalisation during which ethnic groups have had to relinquish their traditions in order to subscribe to modernisation as prescribed by states government and through ...
    • The Wireless Set: Navigating Vulnerability and Resilience in environments of globalisation 

      Andrews, Esme (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)
      Both islands and the ageing experience are often understood in relation to globalisation processes. This project acknowledges ageing islanders as having an acute embodied experience of the - often-disembodied - way in which environment is dominantly conceptualised under globalisation. It thus seeks to understand Scotland’s non-linked isles’ experience of care provision under a national service, based ...