Essays about: "Performativity"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 151 essays containing the word Performativity.

1. 31. Politicians’ Instagram personas in relation to Swedish politics : A discourse analysis of personas from a gender point of view of Swedish political party leaders’ Instagram accounts

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Centrum för genusforskning (from 2013)

   Author : Emelie Bröms; [2022]
   Keywords : gender performativity; persona; rhetoric; social media; Instagram; politics; party leaders; political communication; Sweden; persona; retorik; sociala medier; Instagram; partiledare; politik; politisk kommunikation; Sverige; persona; performativitet;

   Abstract : This essay aims to investigate how the leaders for the Swedish parliamentary parties appear on their official Instagram accounts. By conducting a discourse analysis, looking at both text, visual images, and the combination of the two in the Instagram posts, the intention is to analyse how gender is being performed through the rhetorical concept of persona. READ MORE

3. 32. Hjärtat av en sann student : First curators, performativity and reproducing tradition at an Uppsala Student Nation

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Kaitlin May; [2022]
   Keywords : Student nations; student life; nation life; first curators; performativity; embodiment; tradition; ritual; ritualization; repetition; norms; generational continuity; Uppsala; Sweden;

   Abstract : In the city of Uppsala, Sweden the experiences of the student population are very connected to the world of the student nations. This study explores the position of first curator at a student nation as the leader of the student societies hierarchy and how their position influences the production of community and tradition. READ MORE

4. 33. The new Cinderella's Identity Confusion : in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder by Marissa Meyer

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

   Author : Linnea Andersson; [2022]
   Keywords : Identity confusion; gender roles; gender norms; queer; cyberqueer; performativity; precarity;

   Abstract : The fairy tale of Cinderella is known for its romance, but she seeks independence while being confused by her identity in a new version by Marissa Meyer called Cinder. This essay will present how Meyer’s Cinderella, Cinder, confuses the gender roles by taking on both feminine and masculine ones. READ MORE

5. 34. Be beautiful and speak up : Africana beauty at the forefront of an inclusive Internet beauty culture.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : KENZA ALOUI; [2022]
   Keywords : Acceptance; African; Africana; autoethnography; beauty; beauty industry; change; community; culture; decoloniality; diaspora; empowerment; existentialism; exoticization; feminist studies; heritage; inclusivity; Internet; intersectionality; interviews; norms; performativity; phenomenology; policing; race; racism; radical; self-love; utopia; women of color.;

   Abstract : The beauty industry has been booming in the last few years, generating immense profits as it now translates into an Internet global beauty culture in its own right that finally made room for women of color. As research barely mentions African women and their diasporas, this study aims to critically analyze the dynamic of this North American-dominated Internet beauty culture celebrating non-white women, looking at how it impacts African women and their diasporas and participates in affirming a global woman of color through commodity capitalism. READ MORE

6. 35. Writing with Photography. Language performativity and photography's capacity for semiotics

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

   Author : Mercè Torres Ràfols; [2021-01-15]
   Keywords : Writing; Photography; Semiotics; Performativity; Codes; Structure;

   Abstract : This essay started with the negative of writing a written essay. By so, I wanted to understand how photography operates as a language and what it means when one says "to read" a photograph. READ MORE