Essays about: "Michel Foucault"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 105 essays containing the words Michel Foucault.

1. 11. Making her feel like a fairy : a study of young women engaging with selfie applications in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Yilin Yang; [2022]
   Keywords : selfie; media engagement; self-representation; the gaze; human body; audience research; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : It’s not unusual for young people these days to take and edit a selfie. With the rise of consumerist culture and the popularity of mobile Internet, nowadays selfie applications, including beauty cameras and photo-beautification applications, have become the most well-accepted products/brands among Chinese women, who have grown accustomed to showing only one exquisitely edited face in digital photos without any dirt or blemishes. READ MORE

3. 12. The Impermanence of Norms : A Study of Fahrenheit 451 Based on Foucauldian Concepts

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Anna-Pia Backlund; [2022]
   Keywords : Episteme; Michel Foucault; Ray Bradbury; Fahrenheit 451; knowledge; ignorance; norms; power.  ;

   Abstract : In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451. The plot is set in a fictional, North American future. READ MORE

4. 13. Body Positive Content on TikTok : A Critical Study on How Body Positive Content on Social Media Can Reinforce Body Negative Discourses

   University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Jonna Bayliss Larsen-Ledet; [2022]
   Keywords : Body positivity; body positive movement; body negativity; Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis; TikTok;

   Abstract : This critical study examines how TikTok content from body positive trends may influence power relations and reinforce female body negative discourses. The study takes its departure primarily in Michel Foucault. However, additional researchers were brought in to expand on Foucault’s ideas by e.g. READ MORE

5. 14. Human Rights and the Commodification of Pollution – A Genealogical Study of the Carbon Market with an Intergenerational Justice Perspective

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Ida Helene Sørensen-Diercksen; [2022]
   Keywords : Carbon market; human rights; climate change; intergenerational justice; genealogy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The carbon market promises cost-effective climate change mitigation and economic growth. However, it has been criticised as greenwashing and delaying necessary decarbonisation. This thesis examines the genealogy of the carbon market to address the human rights consequences for future generations. READ MORE

6. 15. IN SEARCH OF POWER : The Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve in Sweden under the microscope of the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Viktoria Kamenova Georgieva; Chara Fotopoulou; [2022]
   Keywords : Foucault; truth discourse; power; technologies of the self; identities; resistance; liberal and neoliberal art of government; F.D.A.; sustainable development; Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve; MAB; UNESCO.;

   Abstract : The present study focuses on the Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve (BR) in Northern Sweden, which serves as an implementation site of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. In response to a series of environmental and social problems identified in the specific locale, the area inhabited by both “Swedish” and “Sami” people, is designed to serve henceforth as a learning site for sustainable development. READ MORE