Essays about: "Identity intersections"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 26 essays containing the words Identity intersections.

  1. 16. Writing the next Chapters of our Books : Every-day resistances by Greek women in Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Eftychia Vagena; [2016]
    Keywords : resistance; everyday; migrant; women; decolonial; feminism; border thinking; intersectionality;

    Abstract : This work is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of everyday knowledges and practices to re-address the issue of resistance, problematise the existing notions and create re-articulations. In what follows, I am investigating the main intersections of discrimination in the experience of the latest wave of Greek women migrants in Sweden in order to single out and analyze the ways and tools of their everyday resistance and re-existence. READ MORE

  3. 17. Race, Gender and Entrepreneurship : The Perception of Self within the Social Construct of the 21st Century Afropolitan Identity

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Olayinka Makinwa; [2016]
    Keywords : Entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; embodiment; sense-making; leadership; culture; identity; Afropolitanism; multiculturalism; globalization; feminism; Black feminism; racism; employment; female leadership;

    Abstract : This study explores the role identity plays in entrepreneurial opportunity identification as well as entrepreneurial engagements. At the core of the research problematization stands the very definition of national, ethnic, personal and constructed identities as perceived by the actors themselves versus others. READ MORE

  4. 18. Valhallavägen : sammanlänkande esplanad med stora mått

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Anita Rogström; [2015]
    Keywords : Valhallavägen; Östermalm; esplanad; stadsplanering; gatustruktur;

    Abstract : Valhallavägen är en av Stockholms längsta och bredaste gator med fyra kontinuerliga rader av lind omgärdade av motriktade körbanor. Arbetet inleds med en historisk beskrivning med planeringen och den efterföljande byggnationen av de olika delsträckorna för att sedan beskriva de förändringar vägen genomgått under de efterföljande hundra åren. READ MORE

  5. 19. Threatened forest, threatened culture : a case study of subjectivities, nature and resistance in Embobut Forest

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Signe Larsen; [2015]
    Keywords : conflict; sustainability science; local resistance; Kenya; indigenous; post-structural feminism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Forests are today recognised as vital for ensuring a sustainable world and today’s initiatives to save them address everything from actual resource use to fictitious agendas such as carbon sequestration. Forests have become embedded in a “fog of greening”, and in this process local forest become global spaces for saving the world. READ MORE

  6. 20. “Where There is Dialogue, There is Hope” Nation, Gender and Transversal Dialogue in Belfast, Northern Ireland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Linda Eitrem Holmgren; [2014]
    Keywords : nation; gender; transversal dialogue; Northern Ireland; peace-building; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of women in Belfast in two working-class ethno-national communities: Falls (Catholic/Nationalist/Republican) and Shankill (Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist). Theories of gendered nationalism and transversalism are used to analyze the material from a qualitative interview study. READ MORE