- PhD student
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- Assistant professor
- Date
- Wednesday 20 Feb 2019, 10:00 - 11:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 20 February 2019, ISS PhD student Fasil Nigussie Taye will defend his thesis entitled 'Changing Childhoods, Places and Work: the everyday politics of learning-by-doing in the urban weaving economy in Ethiopia'. In his thesis aims to capture the inter-generational and gendered dynamics of work in particular geographies and to demonstrate changing childhoods in a development context.
Fasil Nigussie Taye's thesis brings political economy and socio-cultural approaches into dialogue with each other, bounded together with the relational concept of ‘place’. Children’s involvement in weaving is more of a sociological and cultural phenomenon than a social problem.
In this regard, the thesis looks at the lived experiences of several generations of Gamo weavers as proof of how engagement in weaving at a particular life-phase of childhood (early adolescence) is relevant to cultivating superior weaving skills.
The Public Defence will take place on Wednesday 20 February 2019. The ceremony will begin promptly at 10.00 hrs in Aula B of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- More information
This Public Defence may broadcast on ISS livestream. If so, you will be able to watch the Public Defence live at www.iss.nl/live and later on on the ISS YouTube channel.Â