Essays about: "Autoethnography"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 73 essays containing the word Autoethnography.

  1. 21. I am white, therefore I am : A phenomenological study of whiteness as experienced by white women in relation to Others within a travel context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Valerie van Schaik; [2022]
    Keywords : Autoethnography; Bodies; Critical Whiteness studies; Female; Feminist studies; Gender; Identity; Intersectionality; Norm; Othering; Phenomenology; Privilege; Race; Raciality; Racialization; Spatiality; Situated knowledge; Transnational; Travel; White; Whiteness; White Privilege; Woman; Womanhood.;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a complex understanding of the phenomenological experience of whiteness as a racial category. Based on theories of critical whiteness studies, intersectionality and (white) phenomenology, I conducted five semi-structured interviews with five white women about their understandings of their whiteness within a context of transnational travel. READ MORE

  3. 22. Resistance: Cultural Expression of Tea Plantation Workers in Bangladesh

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Faiham Ebna Sharif; [2022]
    Keywords : Tea; Cha; Chai; Garden; Estate; Plantation; Bagan; Baganiya; Culture; Alienation; Resistance; Worker; Labor; Tea Garden; Tea Garden Worker; Ethnicity; Human Rights; Labor Rights; Colonialism; Imperialism; Everyday life; Economy; Strategy; Tactic; Total Institution; Net of Authorities; Symbol;

    Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic study of culture, economy, everyday life, and resistance among ‘Baganiyas’ (workers) of a tea plantation in contemporary Bangladesh. The main goal of this thesis is to highlight the Baganiyas' everyday resistance to the systemic alienation of the plantation structure and to demonstrate how their actions of resistance served as symbolic representations of their community's culture. READ MORE

  4. 23. Designing Game Narrative to Evoke Players’ Empathy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Yu Guo; [2022]
    Keywords : Game narrative; empathy; perspective-taking; cognitive empathy; emotional empathy; autoethnography; close reading;

    Abstract : The paper would focus on the game narrative and empathy, more specifically, the primary goal of this paper is to see how game narrative evokes players’ empathy and get some narrative design principles that can be used in future game design and research. To fulfill the research goal of the paper, I will analyze three role-playing games To the Moon(2011), A Bird Story(2014), and Finding Paradise(2017). READ MORE

  5. 24. How do players experience a gacha game depending on their perspective as a starting or a veteran player? : A case study of Genshin Impact

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Dominykas Jėčius; Alexander Frestadius; [2022]
    Keywords : Computer games; gacha; game systems; reward systems; player experience; dark patterns; locked content;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore and examine how gameplay experiences differ in the gacha game Genshin Impact (miHoYo, 2020). In particular, there is a focus on the economic systems of the game along with the general play experience. READ MORE

  6. 25. Medicalizing Me Softly: An Autoethnography of Refusal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Han Amm; [2022]
    Keywords : transmedicalism; truscum; transnormativity; nonbinary; autoethnography; refusal; liminality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This autoethnographic study explores intra-community discursive boundary constructions around the category of transgender articulated by truscum trans men on Reddit. It does so through reflections on how the author negotiates the medical model of trans, his own gender identity, the medico-juridical interlock governing access to trans healthcare and trans livability, and tensions of closeness/distance to those they interview. READ MORE