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 ...
Lundsteen, Martin (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
The main aim of the thesis has been to scrutinise the relations between cultural diversity and social conflicts, and to consider why some social conflicts are said to be inherently cultural. I have ...
Lefkaditou, Theodora (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)
The thesis is an inquiry into the social and cultural implications of the Bahian Capoeira teachers’ transnational mobilities and consequent immobilities. Following the trajectories of young male teachers ...
Valenciano i Mañé, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
This thesis is about grassroots strategies of material and political extraversion. It is an ethnography of the provisioning of clothing goods in Equatorial Guinea and it bridges the everyday lives of ...