Essays about: "Performative Resistance"

Found 4 essays containing the words Performative Resistance.

1. 1. "Inscrire la vulnérabilité au centre du pacte politique” : Towards a radical feminist reconceptualization of vulnerability through the critical juxtaposition of Judith Butler’s poststructuralist ethico-political theory and Martha Fineman’s legal philosophy

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

   Author : Ariadni Polychroniou (Polichroniou); [2022]
   Keywords : Vulnerability; Dependency; Resilience; Precarity; Feminist Philosophy; Judith Butler; Martha Fineman; Responsive State; Performative Resistance;

   Abstract : This Master Thesis focuses on the theoretical reconstruction of a positive feminist conceptualization of vulnerability via the thorough systematization and critical comparison of Martha Fineman’s socio-legal philosophy and Judith Butler’s poststructuralist ethico-political theory. In the introductory remarks, the reader becomes familiar with the turbulent receptions and numerous interdisciplinary re-artications of the term vulnerability within the realms of contemporary feminist theory. READ MORE

3. 2. “Our Bodies Are Territories Of Battle” - Experiences of Power and Resistance and the Role of The Body in The Struggle for Legalization of Abortion in Argentina

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Alice Hansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Abortion; Argentina; Embodiment; Power; Resistance; Women s social movement;

   Abstract : The denial of the access to abortion has been addressed as a human rights issue. This thesis is based on a MFS- study with the aim to investigate women’s experiences of power and resistance in the movement for legalization of abortion in Argentina. READ MORE

4. 3. From the Paris Conference to the Paris of the Yellow Vests: a laboratory for characterizing transition profiles and cultural repertoires to apprehend social and perceptive conflicts of sustainability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Mathilde Eugénie Aleth Françoise Martin; [2019]
   Keywords : Sustainability Transitions; social acceptability; Yellow Vests; framing struggles; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper contributes to sustainability transitions studies in delivering stronger focus and relevance on culture and discursive features to apprehend social resistances towards transition agendas, and the unprecedented emergence of the challenging antagonism of the ‘end of the world’ versus ‘the end of the month’ revealed by the case study of the Yellow Vests crisis in France since November 2018. Aiming at opening the door to broader “ontologies” to transition frameworks, while supporting narrower profiles for the formulation of transition strategies, the paper initiates a narrative analysis and a tracing process to assess how the universal resolve of the 2015 Paris Conference and its established legitimacy of the sustainability discourse has been further contested by the Yellow Vests, and their fractured framing that would permeate the national public cognitive stage. READ MORE

5. 4. The Narrative Identities of QueerPeople of Color : Interviews with Queer People of Color in Long Beach, CA

   University essay from Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Elin Mattsson; [2013]
   Keywords : disidentifications; identity; people of color; performative narrative; queer; queer people of color;

   Abstract : Queer people and people of color are two groups that are exposed to much stereotyping and discrimination in the United States. When these two identity labels coincide they sometimes conflict. READ MORE