Essays about: "Relationality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the word Relationality.

  1. 1. Movement towards socioecological change: The case of Ecosomatics

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Wilma Lagerman; [2024-03-19]
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    Abstract : Several scholars both within and outside the field of human ecology argue that the perceptual human-nature divide contributes profoundly to patterns of unsustainability and weak sustainability visible in the world today. Deliberately engaging in conscious bodily-felt contact with the natural environment is suggested to uncover appropriate, embodied angles to approaching ecology and the environmental crisis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Bathing into Belonging: An Exploration of International Students' encounters at the Swedish Sauna

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Kara Stein; [2023]
    Keywords : sauna; body; autoethnography; home; affects; Sweden; Sara Ahmed; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of Swedish sauna practices as experienced by international students at Lund University. The research objective is to navigate experiences of belonging and community formation that occur in the sauna, but also highlights how experiences of outsiderness and exclusion come to the fore in this highly sensorial environment. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hambach Forest Occupation : Relationships of Care between Plants and Humans

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Tereza Lehečková; [2023]
    Keywords : interspecies ethics of care; more-than-human ethics; more-than-human sociality; Chthulucén; violent-care; activism; mental health; multispecies ethnography; plant ethnography;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the interspecies relationships of care in the Hambach Forest, Germany. It covers the caring relations between the human activists protecting the Forest by occupying it and the trees growing there. READ MORE

  5. 4. Wait here and be grateful - The illusion of colonial hospitality and the decolonial resistance of asylum seekers in the Netherlands

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Valerie van Schaik; [2023]
    Keywords : Agency; Asylum Seekers; Change; Community; Colonialism; Coloniality; Crisis; Decoloniality; Dehumanization; Exclusion; Feminist Studies; Forced Migration; Gender; Hospitality; Inclusion; Intersectionality; Liminality; Migrants; Migration; Modernity; Pluriversality; Race; Racism; Refugees; Relationality; Resistance; Victimization.;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the pervasive influence of coloniality in the lived experiences of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Based in intersectional and decolonial feminist theories and methodology, my aim was to centre the silenced narratives of this marginalised group. READ MORE

  6. 5. Pharmacopornographic Subjectivity and Human Rights : Reading Preciado's 'Testo Junkie' through a Human Rights Narrative Lens

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Sara Rodriguez Santos; [2022]
    Keywords : human rights; narratives; Paul B. Preciado; postmodern ethics; subjectivity; the narratable self; Rebecca Adami;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the implications of Preciado’s 'Testo Junkie' for our understanding of subjectivity and human rights. Preciado’s political project of embodied and performative selfexperimentation with testosterone constructs a self against normalization techniques and static identities. READ MORE