Essays about: "Othering"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 160 essays containing the word Othering.

1. 6. Frankenstein Unmasked : A Critical Analysis of “Otherness” in Frankenstein and its Significance for Establishing an Anti-Oppressive Education

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Nagham Kourie; [2023]
   Keywords : Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; Queer readings; Feminist reading; Disability studies; Otherness; Othering; Anti-Oppressive Education; Swedish Curriculum; Upper Secondary School; Oppression; Privilege.;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes the theme of “Otherness” in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through three different lenses: queer readings, feminist readings, and disability studies, which will offer multiple perspectives of the “Otherness” present in the novel. The essay will engage with critics such as Benjamin Bagocius, Fuson Wang, and Colleen Hobbs. READ MORE

3. 7. Transnistrian Portrayals : Hostile Moldova and Democratic Transnistria

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Slaviska språk

   Author : Midas Lundgren; [2023]
   Keywords : Приднестровье; ПМР; медиа; СМИ; новости; выборы; Первый Приднестровский; инаковость; дискурсивный анализ; Transnistrien; media; nyheter; val; Pervyj Pridnestrovskij; otherness; annanhet; diskursanalys;

   Abstract : В данной работе рассматривается содержание 37 новостных репортажей транслировавшихся на так называемом государственном приднестровском телевидении во время президентских выборов 2021 года. Исследуемые вопросы рассматривают, как освещались негативные реакции со стороны Молдовы, какие дискурсивные ”истины” создавались о Молдове и Приднестровье, как они соотносятся с концепцией инаковости, и что репрезентации Молдовы говорят о попытках приднестровских СМИ создать положительный образ республики. READ MORE

4. 8. Antigender in 280 characters

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Sofia Cognini; [2023]
   Keywords : Antigender; Nethnography; Twitter; Meloni; Salvini; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the past years, antigenderism has become a growing coalition that has moved from being a monopoly of the Vatican to being picked up by Catholic associations and politicians, quickly reaching the general public. The word “gender” has become an empty signifier to attack queer and feminist agendas, sexual and reproductive rights but also gender studies scholars and courses. READ MORE

5. 9. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

   Author : Maja Loberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. READ MORE

6. 10. Harry Potter and racial hierarchies in the English language classroom : A thematic study on racial inequality in Harry Potter

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

   Author : Munira Ahmed; [2023]
   Keywords : Fantasy; Democratic values; Critical Race Theory; Racial inequality; Anti-oppression education.;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on the pedagogical benefits of using fantasy literature in the classroom as it relates to the Swedish school’s democratic values of anti-racism and working for a just society. It examines the representations of racial prejudice, discrimination, and othering among wizards and muggles which are explicitly or implicitly present throughout the Harry Potter series as well as what the representations of inequality can offer in terms of inculcating democratic values and critical thinking in a Swedish upper secondary classroom. READ MORE