Casanovas Romeu, Pompeu (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Law as Knowledge. Anthropological Bases for the Regulation of the Web of Data is a Dissertation on law and regulatory models on the Web of (Linked) Open Data, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0. ...
Marcos Alonso, Susana (Date of defense: 2017-06-20)
The nursing profession in Bangladesh has undergone substantial development over recent decades but still faces significant challenges. A remarkable gap has been described between the institutionally-accepted ...
Pijoan Vives, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2020-09-03)
This study sets out to understand the experiences of young people as they undergo Sail Training aboard tall ships (i.e., traditional rigged sailing ships propelled exclusively by wind). It goes beyond ...
Morell i Tipper, Marc Andreu (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)
With his seminal proposal of a rent-gap theory, Neil Smith developed a consistent materialist explanation for gentrification that efficiently contended with individual consumer preference tenets by ...
Fàbrega Domènech, Emma (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
[eng] This doctoral thesis investigates identity, ageing, and migration through an intersectional approach to retirement and later life migration from the UK to Spain. Through an in-depth exploration ...
Syed Mannaerts, Yasmin Katherine (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)
This study is a long due response to unsustainable evaluations based on dichotomies such as traditional-rational or local-state, and the presumption that people in Pakistan are too oppressed or to ...
Banks, Donna (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
This dissertation takes a transatlantic approach in its exploration of identity and representation by examining artistic practices within areas of the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States. Australia ...
Lorenzo Córdoba, Luis (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)
[eng] There is a vast body of literature and knowledge on and about articulating tradition and heritage as a resource to construct identity. It is so to the point that both concepts become reliable tools ...
García Quiñones, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
This thesis locates historical discourses about music listening within the field of sound studies. Thus, the first three chapters illuminate the contiguities between sound studies and the so-called ...
Hueso Kortekaas, Katia (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
This thesis aims to understand the processes of patrimonialization that take place in artisanal salinas in Europe and analyzes how these can contribute to the preservation of heritage, landscape and ...