Essays about: "Internet-ethnography"

Found 3 essays containing the word Internet-ethnography.

  1. 1. The Joy of Not Fitting In – An Essay on How Non-binary People Accomplish Gender Euphoria

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Frederik Kramer Kluw; [2022]
    Keywords : Non-binary; Gender Euphoria; Masculinity Femininity; Internet-ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Doing gender; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how gender euphoria is constructed by non-binary people, and how these experiences are embedded in ideas of masculinities and femininities. The theoretical point of departure involves the theorization of “doing gender” by West and Zimmerman, concepts from ethnomethodology inspired by Liberman, and finally “performative acts” by Butler. READ MORE

  3. 2. Home of the Japanese Heart : Socio-historical Contextualization of Gender Politics, Commodity Animism and Super State-Nationalism of Japanese Modernity through the Indigenous Faith

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Juno Crown; [2018]
    Keywords : Shrine Maidens; Miko; Shinto; Acculturation; Super State-Nationalism; Ethnic Religion; Monoethnicity; Gender Politics; Hegemonic Femininity; Commodity Animism; Uniform Fetishsm; Rupture of Modernity.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to contextualize gender politics, nationalism, and animism as interconnected cultural patterns reflecting 19th century acculturation and post-WWII national reconstruction of Japan. In particular, state-nationalism, hegemonic femininity, commodity animism, uniform fetishsm, and power structure are analyzed through the symbolisms and discourse of the Japanese indigenous faith: Shinto, female practitioners, and followers. READ MORE

  4. 3. Between Compassion and Privilege: Identity, Responsibility and Power Among Volunteers Engaged in Refugee Reception

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Daniel Mårs; [2016]
    Keywords : responsibility; orientalism; globalization; identity; emotions; volunteers; refugee reception; power; privilege; class; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Based on a research project on the refugee reception in Malmö, Sweden in the fall of 2015, this thesis explores how volunteers engaged in refugee related aid work acquire two conflicting identity positions. Through compassionate acts they orient between two poles: the refugees and the Swedish society. READ MORE