Essays about: "critical whiteness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words critical whiteness.

1. 1. Bathing into Belonging: An Exploration of International Students' encounters at the Swedish Sauna

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Kara Stein; [2023]
   Keywords : sauna; body; autoethnography; home; affects; Sweden; Sara Ahmed; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of Swedish sauna practices as experienced by international students at Lund University. The research objective is to navigate experiences of belonging and community formation that occur in the sauna, but also highlights how experiences of outsiderness and exclusion come to the fore in this highly sensorial environment. READ MORE

3. 2. Gender, Sexuality, Race, Nationality, and Religion in Greek Education. : A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Political Education Schoolbook.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Grigorios Moschopoulos; [2023]
   Keywords : intersectionality; gender; sexuality; race; nationality; religion; CDA; Education; schoolbooks;

   Abstract : Feminist and Educational research on schoolbooks in the Greek educational context has discussed the ways in which gender or nationality or religion are being portrayed but has failed to touch upon sexuality and race (and other categories) and deploy an intersectional feminist perspective in their approaches, focusing only on one category. This thesis aims to fill the gap identified in the literature and investigate the portrayal and intersection of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and religion in the discourses of selected texts of the Political Education schoolbook used in the first grade of highschool and the ways in which this portrayal and intersection challenges or reinforces hegemonic exclusionary discourses, power dynamics and hierarchies. READ MORE

4. 3. The Postmigrant Author in the Danish Media : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Danish Media’s Portrayal of the Postmigrant Author

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   Author : Maria Chihanne El Bahraoui Straagaard; [2023]
   Keywords : Postmigration literature; Denmark; media; whiteness; postmigrant authors;

   Abstract : This study investigates the portrayal of three postmigrant authors in the Danish media. By critically analyzing 12 articles, the study explores the characteristic features of the media’s portrayal of the authors. READ MORE

5. 4. The Power of Ignorance - Epistemic Construction of whiteness in Secondary Schools in Germany

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Linus Covic; [2023]
   Keywords : critical whiteness studies; white ignorance; education; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Whiteness maintains an “invisible” and often unquestioned normative position within the German society in general and the educational system in particular. Previous research in Critical whiteness Studies has highlighted the importance of directing attention toward whiteness as a system of knowledge and power to effectively counteract its concealed nature and dismantle its normative position. READ MORE

6. 5. Attachment-Oriented Motherhood and the German New Right on Instagram

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Isabel Köhler; [2022]
   Keywords : Attachment Parenting; Intensive Motherhood; Respectability; White Femininity; The German New Right; Critical Discourse Analysis; Social Media Studies;

   Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate the German-speaking attachment-oriented parenting community on Instagram. Focusing on a debate about new-right activities in the community, I analyze how motherhood (self-)conceptions were discursively entangled with questions of resistance to and tolerance of the new right. READ MORE