Essays about: "American culture"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 132 essays containing the words American culture.

  1. 16. 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

  3. 17. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Felicity Markdal; [2022]
    Keywords : Agender; Non-binary; Phenomenology; Genderqueer; Alchemy; Eidetic reduction; Queer theory; Husserl; Braidotti; Irigaray;

    Abstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE

  4. 18. American representations of Mexico in the early 1900s : stereographs portraying the other’s modernity and backwardness

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mediehistoria

    Author : Kathya Ninette Nordin; [2022]
    Keywords : Media History; Orientalism; Stereoscope; Visual analysis; Stereograph; Mexico; USA; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis presents the late 19th-century observers as a part of a highly visualized society able to connect with distant places through a very popular visual medium. The stereoscope provided a three-dimensional experience intended for entertainment and education. The thesis focuses on how American stereographic companies portrayed Mexico. READ MORE

  5. 19. Be beautiful and speak up : Africana beauty at the forefront of an inclusive Internet beauty culture.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : KENZA ALOUI; [2022]
    Keywords : Acceptance; African; Africana; autoethnography; beauty; beauty industry; change; community; culture; decoloniality; diaspora; empowerment; existentialism; exoticization; feminist studies; heritage; inclusivity; Internet; intersectionality; interviews; norms; performativity; phenomenology; policing; race; racism; radical; self-love; utopia; women of color.;

    Abstract : The beauty industry has been booming in the last few years, generating immense profits as it now translates into an Internet global beauty culture in its own right that finally made room for women of color. As research barely mentions African women and their diasporas, this study aims to critically analyze the dynamic of this North American-dominated Internet beauty culture celebrating non-white women, looking at how it impacts African women and their diasporas and participates in affirming a global woman of color through commodity capitalism. READ MORE

  6. 20. “THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY” The Ethnographic Content Analysis of the Negative Political Ads in the Post-Soviet Hybrid Democracy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Tamar Samkharadze; [2021-09-13]
    Keywords : Negative Campaigning; Attack ads; Post-Soviet; Hybrid democracy; Personalization of Politics; Ethnographic Content Analysis;

    Abstract : Research in field negative campaigning has demonstrated an anglophone nature. Little is known about strategies of negativity beyond American and the Western European scope. READ MORE