Essays about: "becomings"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word becomings.

  1. 1. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Jorinde Bosma; [2023]
    Keywords : deer; performativity; agential realism; becoming-with; human animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; posthumanism; choreographies; materiality; biopower; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE

  3. 2. Becoming with Rocks : Arriving in the Riddling Middle of (tourist) Places: touch, proximity, indeterminacy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Matt Tuggey; [2021]
    Keywords : place-assemblage; becoming with; embodiment; touch; relationality; ecofeminist materiality; tourism; sustainabili;

    Abstract : The tourism industry is both large and growing, with private and public actors investing heavily in the commodification of places to travel to, supporting individuals with the wealth to do so, to be in different places for short time periods. Correspondingly, popular discourses and research within tourism studies have arisen, looking at attitudes and social and environmental impacts drawn along delineations of the tourist and the host and spatially enclosed tourist places or ‘destinations’. READ MORE

  4. 3. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Christina Tente; [2020]
    Keywords : voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

    Abstract : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 4. An Ecocritical Analysis of Modern Japanese Literary History : Becomings of Self, Nature and Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Shion Takei; [2019]
    Keywords : modern Japanese literature; self; nature; confession; diffraction; becoming;

    Abstract : Situated in environmental history and ecocriticism, this thesis traces the emergence of modern Japanese literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. Using agential realism and its concepts ‘diffraction’ and ‘becoming’, this thesis conducts an anti-essential ecocritical analysis. READ MORE

  6. 5. "If we want to change we must be willing to teach" : Exploring the potential of intersectional feminist pedagogy to change oppressive behaviours and ease a conflict in a Catalan secondary school.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Nathalie Prévot; [2018]
    Keywords : Intersectional feminist pedagogy; Transversal dialogue; conflict resolution; changes in oppressive behaviours; affects; assemblages; becomings; Deleuzian pedagogy.;

    Abstract : Whereas transformative pedagogy is a well researched subject, intersectional feminist pedagogy and specifically Transversal dialogue has not been used to ease conflict in Catalonia. This research examines the potential for intersectional feminist pedagogy to change oppressive behaviours in both students and teachers in a classroom conflict in a Catalan secondary school. READ MORE