Essays about: "agential realism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 16 essays containing the words agential realism.

  1. 11. Embodiment and the Boundaries Between Us in Virtual Reality - A critical analysis of inclusivity in social virtual reality environments

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Claudia Maneka Maharaj; [2017]
    Keywords : Virtual Reality; Social structures; Inclusivity; Diversity; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Culture; Phenomenology; Agential Realism; Design; Technology; Discourse; Embodiment; Bodies; Social environments;

    Abstract : Virtual Reality (VR) is considered the next major communication tool and its potential has been described as “a ubiquitous force and as pervasive and transformative as the internet was in the 90s or the smartphone was in the 2000s” (Somasegar, 2016). Social spaces in VR (SocialVR) are at the forefront of developing new possibilities in communication that could offer greater connection and understanding between people around the world. READ MORE

  3. 12. A new materialist approach to transmasculinity: Bodies, acts, and objects.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Max Van Midde; [2016]
    Keywords : new materialism; transmasculinity; agential realism; transgender studies; autoethnography; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores a transmasculine embodiment through bodies, acts, and objects, from a new materialist perspective. The study is situated within the field of transgender studies, and the research question, ‘how can transmasculine embodiment through the materialities of the body and everyday acts and objects be understood through new materialism’, is answered through an autoethnography. READ MORE

  4. 13. Virtual Violence and Protection from Participation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Lina Hamberg Hjärtström; [2015]
    Keywords : National Action Plan for UN Security Council Resolution 1325 2000 ; protection; gender equality; posthumanist performativity; agential realism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis studies protection as integral to security. Protection has been used to keep women from the ‘public sphere’ and abused by peacekeepers and patriarchs alike, suggesting that being protected is not synonymous with being safe but can cause violence and exclusion. READ MORE

  5. 14. A Countryside Perspective of Queer : - queering the city/countryside divide

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Sara Gagnesjö; [2014]
    Keywords : queer; countryside perspective; city countryside; spacetime; intra-activity; creative writing;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes with a countryside perspective to queer research by highlighting the countryside as a context where queer lives are lived. In the thesis I problematize the city/countryside divide with a view of the concept of queer as dependent on space and time. READ MORE

  6. 15. Countering the Menstrual Mainstream A Study of the European Menstrual Countermovement

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Persdotter Josefin; [2013-11-11]
    Keywords : abjectfication; agential realism; autoethnography; autonetnography; Constructionism; Europe; essentialism; ethnography; feminism; hyper-personalisation; Menstrual Countermovement; menstrual; activism; menstruation; netnography; Post-Constructionism; political consumerism; queer feminism; social movement; women’s movement;

    Abstract : Introducing the term the ”Menstrual Countermovement”: the mass of actions, and agents that purposefully work towards challenging the repressive mainstream menstrual discourse of shame and silence, this research focuses on a spatiotemporal context previously unstudied: Europe, late 2000’s - early 2010‘s. The dual aim of the study is to contribute to a 1) diversification and broadening of the understanding of the movement as a whole, and (2) continuing the work of previous research further exploring the movement’s place within feminism. READ MORE