Essays about: "Feminist geographies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Feminist geographies.

  1. 1. "Be fit, my age, big c**k": Engagements with Hegemonic Masculinity, Hetero(homo)normativity and Discrimination among Queer Male Dating App Users in Malmö and Copenhagen - A Thematic and Summative Content Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Aaron West; [2023]
    Keywords : MSM dating apps; hegemonic masculinity; heteronormative; homonormative; misogyny; body shaming; racism; queer digital geographies; self- re presentation; online disinhibition.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This exploratory research addresses a significant gap in feminist, cultural, and digital geographies by examining the geographic variations of how hegemonic masculinity, hetero(homo)normativity and discrimination is exhibited by MSM dating apps users in two distinct city contexts. Drawing from a post-structuralist humanistic perspective, the study explores how dominant ideologies shape exclusionary online queer spaces made unique by digital placemaking. READ MORE

  3. 2. Black in the Ivory Tower: The Subversiveness of Black Women at Lund University

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Elsa Mertala; [2022]
    Keywords : Academia; Black women; labour; subversiveness; Lund University; Swedish Exceptionalism; Akademin; svarta kvinnor; arbete; subversiv; Lund universitet; svensk exceptionalism; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In Sweden the research about Black people’s experiences in academia is quite limited, because of a self-image that is colourblind which prevents the acknowledgement of Black existence (practice, thought, bodies). This thesis is a cultural analytical attempt to contribute and widen the research field of critical studies in Swedish academia, through exploring Black female’s emotional and body experiences in the spatiotemporal space of Lund University. READ MORE

  4. 3. Understanding the Emotional Geographies of Migrant Women in Copenhagen using Photo Elicitation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Yasmin Reuben Adler Thomsen; [2021]
    Keywords : migrant women; everyday practices; Copenhagen; intersectionality; photo elicitation; feminist and emotional geography;

    Abstract : With a tense political landscape with stigmatizing discourse about migrants and so-called migrant ghettos, alongside continuous indications of gender imbalances in public spaces in Copenhagen, a focus on migrant women was chosen. The thesis takes its outset in a photo project conducted in Kringlebakken, an integration house in Copenhagen. READ MORE

  5. 4. “People would say this was the bad side!” : An ethnography of everyday strategies for managing place stigma.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Nicolina Ewards Öberg; [2020]
    Keywords : neighbourhood; boundaries; inter-geographies; intra-geographies; images; stigma; socially vulnerable; experiences; stories;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the myriad of responses and complex relationships residents have to the stigma attached to their neighbourhood, one categorised by the police as socially vulnerable (Nationella operativa avdelningen 2019). This research explores the narrative of place to diffuse some complexity around the multidimensional positions people have to stigma and stigmatising imagery of place. READ MORE

  6. 5. Motherwork and Space: Social and Political Participation of Mothers in Sweden’s racialised Suburbs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jonelle Twum; [2020]
    Keywords : Motherwork; Racialised suburbs; Black women’s Geographies; Geographies of Motherwork.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis engages with the motherwork of racialised migrant mothers in Sweden’s racialised suburbs. It employs theories of racial geographies, particularly black women’s geographies and motherwork to investigate the articulations of motherwork in space. READ MORE