Essays about: "Resistance and Urban Space"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words Resistance and Urban Space.

  1. 1. Hanoi's Roving Street Vendors : Navigating Cultural and Urban Transformations in the Digital Age

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

    Author : Phuong Luong; [2023]
    Keywords : mobile vendor; resistance; urban space; digital age; digitalisation;

    Abstract : The paper emphasizes the resilience and transformative nature of Vietnam's street vending culture in the face of social change. In Vietnam, street vendors operate within a network of cooperation, interdependence, and communal support, forming a new economic system that exemplifies the emergence of a distinctive culture. READ MORE

  3. 2. Racist Police Practices, Mobilities, and the Production of Urban Space : Power, Resistance, and Subjectification in the City of Malmö

    University essay from

    Author : Elvira Grahn; [2023]
    Keywords : Racial profiling; racialization; racist police practices; geopolicing; space; mobility; power and resistance; subjectification; Rasprofilering; rasifiering; mobilitet; rasistiska polispraktiker;

    Abstract : This study aims to explore the relationship between racist police practices and the production of space in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Acknowledging the systemic inequalities inherent in Nordic welfarism and how past Swedish colonialist efforts inform such systems, it presupposes that racist police practices should be considered structural rather than dependent on individual actors. READ MORE

  4. 3. The proliferation of coworking spaces in Vietnam’s transitional urban economy – moving towards adaptation or resistance?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Caroline Müller-Runte; [2021]
    Keywords : Vietnam; Coworking Spaces; Urban Economy; Transitional Vacuum; Sense of Place; Placelessness; Adaptation; Resistance; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Situated in Vietnam’s transitional vacuum in its urban cores Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, this study is rooted in the aim to understand the emerging variants of coworking spaces currently proliferating across the country. This aim is realized by conducting a multiple case study and semi-structured interviews with nine founders, community managers and users of coworking spaces from heterogeneous backgrounds. READ MORE

  5. 4. ‘I will write until I am heard!’ : The Poetic Resistance through Graffiti in China’s Urban Space and Social Media

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Maizi Hua; [2021]
    Keywords : urban China; poetic resistance; mediated city; graffiti; social media; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the possibility of the mediated city providing a space for resistance in everyday life in a society where free speech channels are strictly controlled. The case studied in this thesis is the phenomenon of a group of fans of a singer who has been banned by the government in mainland China writing graffiti in public urban space on Rehe Road in Nanjing to express their love and support for their beloved singer. READ MORE

  6. 5. Dagvattenhantering som katalysator för urbana ekosystemtjänster : ett gestaltningsförslag för Timboholmsparken i Skövde

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Erik Borén; Olle Gillsjö; [2021]
    Keywords : dagvattenhantering; ekosystemtjänster; klimatanpassning; hållbar stadsutveckling; klimatförändringar;

    Abstract : De pågående klimatförändringarna är vår tids största globala utmaning. Global uppvärmning ökar risken för extremväder och redan nu kan vi bland annat se en ökande översvämningsproblematik runtom i världen. Översvämningsproblematiken blir särskilt påtaglig i de urbana områdena som sam-tidigt kan se en starkt ökande inflyttning. READ MORE