Essays about: "About me"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 433 essays containing the words About me.
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6. ‘A Catalyst Into Queer Life’: Gender-Open Parenting as an Abolitionist Practice
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : As practitioners of gender-open parenting, the refusal to impose a gendersex identity on children, my interviewee/collaborator and I engage in a dialogic interview about our shared embodied, everyday, relational parenting practices. I ask: What do we do when we do gender-open parenting? What does gender-open parenting do? If Marquis Bey and their black trans feminist theory set the scene, Sara Ahmed provides me with the concepts to move the methodology toward an abolitionist phenomenology beyond resistance to cisgender ideology. READ MORE
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7. Telling a different story: Farming resilience in hay-milk farms in Salzburg province
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : Foregrounding relations and processes in resilience thinking has the potential to enable more holistic analyses and account for complexity, which could lead to more resilient actions, interventions, or ways of being. The concept of farming resilience builds on a process-relational understanding of resilience and thus offers a move away from more substance-based understandings of resilience as outcome. READ MORE
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8. “Excuse me, I am still here” : Designing for the Wellbeing of People With Dementia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikationAbstract : A growing number of studies have been addressing the use of technology in dementia care. As traditional views of society focus mostly on the symptomatic aspects of dementia, the use of technology is limited to people’s impairments. READ MORE
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9. Stigmatization and its overshadow on urban green spaces in Gottsunda : the study of a segregated suburban area where existing green spaces are fading away
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : In this modern era, when we are living in a society surrounded by advanced science and technology on the one hand, stigmatization as a form of social injustice is very much evident and still increasing in the social landscape on the other hand. In this thesis, I investigate the ongoing trend of redevelopment and densification projects in the Swedish context, explicitly targeting the marginalized neighborhoods in a Million Program housing areas built after the post-war period. READ MORE
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10. Resisting from within : Analysis of intersectional narratives in the "burkini" case in France
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : Since summer 2016 France has experienced several episodes of “moral panic” about a three-pieces swimsuit worn by Muslim women, the “burkini”, whether on the occasion of attempts to ban it from beaches, or on the opposite to allow it in the swimming pools. These Islamophobic expressions are part of a French history of shaping the figure of “Muslim women”, controlling their bodies through their clothing, from “veil” to “burkini”, and silencing them. READ MORE
