Essays about: "Collectivism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 80 essays containing the word Collectivism.

  1. 11. “We Are Together” : cultural trauma and discourse of collectivism in Chinese video representation of the COVID-19 epidemic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Shujing Zheng; [2021]
    Keywords : risk society; ontological insecurity; cultural trauma; collectivism; COVID-19; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis has two aims. One is to situate COVID-19 in a macro narrative that characterizes our time as a risk society or reflexive modernization. The other is to bring public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic into the sharp focus of cultural trauma study which is closely related to media representations. READ MORE

  3. 12. Aziza's Friendship Compendium, 1st Edition (Annotated and Expanded)

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för design, inredningsarkitektur och visuell kommunikation (DIV)

    Author : Aziza Ahmad; [2021]
    Keywords : friendship; friends; feminism; resistance; collectivism; anarchy; visual communication; illustration;

    Abstract : Aziza's Friendship Compendium, 1st Edition is my illustrated textbook that is part-compendium, part-manifesto. It provides a social, cultural and political analysis of friendship as an inherently anti-oppression, radical tool of resistance. READ MORE

  4. 13. Who is the Economista? : The Paradox of Feminism: Collectivism and Individualism Within an Online Group for Female Private Investors

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Nathalie Saller; [2021]
    Keywords : Fourth wave feminism; postfeminism; neoliberal feminism; social media; Facebook groups; separatism; women’s communities; economy; investing; consciousness raising; safe spaces online;

    Abstract : In the last few years, there has been an explosion of Facebook groups specifically directed at a female audience. One topic that seems to organize and interest Swedish women especially is money. READ MORE

  5. 14. Exploring cultural orientation and its influence on business planning in new ventures: urban Indigenous Australian insights

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Adam Sacca; Stephan Campbell Fernandini; [2021]
    Keywords : Culture; Cultural Dimensions Theory; Individualism-Collectivism; Cultural Orientation; Indigenous Entrepreneurship; Urban Indigenous Australia; New Venture Creation; Business Planning; Planning.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The influence of one’s cultural orientation, particularly through Hofstede’s (1980; 2001) Individualism-Collectivism dimension, on entrepreneurs and planning within new ventures is an underexplored field in entrepreneurial research, specifically among cultural minorities. This study aims to understand the Individualism-Collectivism orientation of urban Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs based in Sydney, Australia, and how it can influence business planning in their new venture. READ MORE

  6. 15. The Brexit Subject : Cognitive Capitalism and Biopolitical Production in Post-Referendum Fiction

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit Fiction; Brexit Literature; BrexLit; Autumn; Middle England; The Cockroach; Perfidious Albion; The Friends of Harry Perkins; The Wall; The Cut; Cognitive Capitalism; Immaterial Labour; Creative Labour; Cultural Labour; Gig Economy; Biopower; Biopolitics; Biopolitical Production; Bioproduction; Subjectivity; Precarity; Casualization; Subject Formation; Patriotism; Collectivism; Individualism.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores precarization of work and subject formation in seven post-referendum Brexit novels through theories of cognitive capitalism and biopolitical production. The analysis is anchored in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s reconceptualization of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics. READ MORE