Essays about: "Emma Aler"

Found 2 essays containing the words Emma Aler.

  1. 1. 'All Women Are Like That' : Men Going Their Own Way: Understanding the Interplay Between Online Platforms and Counterpublic Dynamics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Emma Aler; [2021]
    Keywords : counterpublics; online platforms; platform affordances; netnography; public sphere; anti-feminism;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the role of online platforms in relation to anti-progressive counterpublic dynamics. Counterpublicsare understood as alternative discursive arenas that form in response to exclusion from the wider public sphere. READ MORE

  3. 2. Contested identity, contested struggle : A critical discourse analysis on victim-agent narratives regarding commercial sex in Thailand

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Emma Aler; [2018]
    Keywords : Agency; Victimisation; Agent-Victim Framework; Commercial Sex; Sex Work; Postcolonialism; Feminist Theory; Thailand;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how efforts regarding the commercial sex industry in Thailand can be positioned in relation to an agent-victim framework. In the context of the expanding sex industry in Thailand, it becomes relevant to look at how efforts regarding it risks reproducing notions of ‘the prostitute’ as the victimised Other, and thus reinforcing neo-colonialism. READ MORE