Essays about: "identity postmodern"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 essays containing the words identity postmodern.

  1. 21. EXPLORATION OF THE GENDER MYTH VIA FASHION MEDIA : ANDROGYNY AND DANDYISM IN CONTEMPORARY FASHION MAGAZINES

    University essay from Centrum för modevetenskap

    Author : Kristina Glogorovska; [2011]
    Keywords : Androgyny; Dandyism; Gender; Identity; Fashion Magazines; Photography;

    Abstract : This paper attempts to analyze different representations of "androgyny‟ as fashion tendency in contemporary fashion magazines (Vogue, i-D and LOVE Magazine) for the period of 2010 and 2011. In order to show the development of "androgyny‟ as fashion tendency, this study first explores how androgyny metamorphosed from a "hidden‟ signifier of unconventional sexuality to "visible‟ postmodern teaser for sexual identities. READ MORE

  3. 22. Sweden Inside-Out: Suffering, Everyday Peace and Violence in Deliberation

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

    Author : Christopher Furlan; [2011]
    Keywords : Suffering; clandestine asylum seeker; everyday peace; violence; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis critically examines the role of suffering in violence, by applying a postmodern perspective to empirical examples gathered during fieldwork in Malmö in 2011.by Combing Bourdieu’s perspectives on practice with Turner’s concepts of space and liminality, Malmö takes on a new light. READ MORE

  4. 23. Cyborglandskap : landskapet, människan och teknologin

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Martin Nilsson; [2010]
    Keywords : cyborglandskap; teknologisering ; ljusarkitektur; jordbruk; vertikal odling; postmodernism; hydroponisk odling;

    Abstract : By using the cyborg as a structural tool to analyze certain aspects of human interaction with what can be perceived as landscape or landscape architectural elements, this thesis seeks to explore the concept of the cyborg landscape in order to place human practice in the context of postmodern ideas of the end of true nature. Ever since human kind has externalized evo-lution by using tools and extending the body with technological inventions, we have also taken our surroundings out of their natural trajectory. READ MORE

  5. 24. Offentliga rum och utsuddade identitetsbegrepp : en resa mellan det virtuella och det fysisika i tid och otid

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Pia Jonsson; [2009]
    Keywords : Informationssamhälle; virtuell värld; fysisk värld; identitetsskapande; Facebook; Internet; sociala rum; postmodern arkitektur; stad; kultur; offentligt rum; IKT informations- och kommunikationsteknik; flödesrum; flöden;

    Abstract : Trough a literature study based on both philosophic and objective fact this essay is taking off in the meaning of public space. It investigates how the information society and its virtual world are affecting the idea and use of public space in the city. READ MORE

  6. 25. Structuring of Modern and Postmodern Identities with Reflections on the Pedagogical Implications in a Multicultural World

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Pedagogik

    Author : Mariam John Meynert; [2008]
    Keywords : Modernism; Postmodernism; Identity; Ethnicity; Critical Pedagogy; Border Pedagogy; Multiculturalism; Multi-ligualism; Sociology; Sociologi; Social structures; Sociala strukturer; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay explores the different discourses that intersect to define and explain the concept of "identity" and consists of two distinct parts. The former being an attempt to eclecticize the discourses around identity and the structuring of identity under modern and post-modern conditions. READ MORE