Essays about: "Colonial Gaze"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Colonial Gaze.

  1. 1. Colonial Imagery and representation in tourism marketing of African destinations. : A case study of Kenya

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Anne Mundati; [2021]
    Keywords : Colonial myth; photography; marketing; Kenya; destination.;

    Abstract : This research study is based on the visual marketing of African destinations and the colonial influence in a post-colonial world. Recent tourism research tourism has examined post-colonial realities in developing countries addressing the experience of British post-colonialism, however, only a few of those studies have examined the cultural consequences of tourism marketing image influence on culture and national identity. READ MORE

  3. 2. Tropico : Civilization Bar

    University essay from Konstfack/Keramik & Glas; Konstfack/Institutionen för konsthantverk (KHV)

    Author : Sebastian Hägelstam; [2020]
    Keywords : Colonialism; Post-Colonialism; Cultural Appropriation; Oceania; Tiki; Tropical Paradise; Colonial Gaze; James Cook; Paul Gaugain; Donn Beach;

    Abstract : Some years ago I stumbled upon and straight into the bliss of the tropical paradise when setting foot in a Tiki bar for the first time. The story behind this enchanting pop cultural institution unfolded a history built upon colonial power, cultural appropriation and hegemonies. READ MORE

  4. 3. Branding the Others

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Ha An Nguyen; [2019]
    Keywords : nation branding; postcolonialism; feminism; Western popular culture; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In view of the fact that Western films are one of the most consumed forms of popular culture in the world market, this study argues that they are, therefore, integral to the nation branding process of non Western countries. Anchored in postcolonial theory, this research purposely turned to Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis model as a matching analytical framework. READ MORE

  5. 4. Imagining Somewheres: Obstruction as a Productive Force in Decolonial Visuality, Solidarities, and Asian American Futures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2018]
    Keywords : decoloniality; obstruction; radical hope; Asian American embodiment; virtual reality; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize and unintentionally other the depicted subjects. READ MORE

  6. 5. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
    Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE