Essays about: "Othering"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 160 essays containing the word Othering.

  1. 31. Othering Heights : A critical urban approach to the narratives embedding the proposed Österskans development in Halmstad, Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Anna Stohr; [2022]
    Keywords : Urban studies; conviviality; convivial urbanism; Halmstad; Österskans; Sweden; critical urbanism; socio-spatialisation; placemaking; urban design; social sustainability; the built environment; segregation; urbanisation; public space; cityscape; neoliberal planning; densification; social mobility; spatial theory; uneven geographical development; the right to the city; David Harvey; thinking spatially; discourse;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the proposed Österskans development in Halmstad, Sweden from the approach of critical urbanism. With a steady increase of population growth for the past decades and despite the income level of the municipality's population being above the national average - the socio-economic segregation in Halmstad is prevalent. READ MORE

  3. 32. Framing the Other : A feminist Approach to Media Representations of Women's Issues and Gender Equality in Croatia

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Martina Derdić; [2022]
    Keywords : gender inequality; otherness; news framing; retraditionalization; Croatian media;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to identify the discursive techniques through which women are delegitimized, belittled and "Othered" in Croatian media. On top of that, the goal is to identify patterns in news framing processes which reflect the structures of a patriarchal society. READ MORE

  4. 33. Myth and Othering in EU Enlargement Discourse : The Case of Kosovo’s European Integration

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Ejner Pedersen Trenter; [2022]
    Keywords : Political myth; liminality; discourse analysis; Kosovo; EU enlargement; Europeanness;

    Abstract : This paper argues that the EU’s enlargement discourse can be understood as a form of political myth wherein a subject must align itself with an fantasmatic ideal type ofEuropean state. It works through positing a past from which the subject must advance, and a mythical horizon towards which the subject strives. READ MORE

  5. 34. "Where there is room to fight for your beliefs that is the ideal place" : Imagination and agency of Athenians with migratory background

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Georgia Dekavalla; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; city; space; bordering; othering; imagination; hybridity;

    Abstract : In the globalized world, border regimes are ambiguous, withdrawn or reinforced based on who approaches them, where and how. Borders are equally the boundaries that permeate spaces of nation-states and cut across them through racialized, gendered, and classed divisions. READ MORE

  6. 35. Rainbow-Washing on Screen: Perceptions of 21st Century Popular Media Representations of Queer Identities in a Comparison between Sweden and Czechia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Elizabeth Hythova; [2022]
    Keywords : queer representation; stereotypes in popular media; social constructionism; heteronormativity; othering of minorities; queer theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how queer people perceive queer representations in popular media (film and TV) produced in recent years and how such representations affect queer people’s identity and self-perception, as well as how they mirror and reproduce heteronormative understandings of queerness. A cultural comparison between Czechia and Sweden in perceptions of heteronormativity and queer representations and media is also made. READ MORE