Essays about: "border thinking"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the words border thinking.

  1. 6. Borders Retold : The entanglements between women's bodies and the Cyprus's Green Line

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Theodora Irakleous; [2017]
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    Abstract : This thesis is a qualitative research project that takes as its starting point a knowledge gap found in the literature concerning the Green Line of the island of Cyprus. Although the aforementioned literature contextualizes the aftermath of the island’s division, the traumas and consequences of the division, as well as its effects on the construction of national and ethnic identities, it nevertheless leaves the materiality of bodies, which entangle with the Line unexamined. READ MORE

  3. 7. Writing the next Chapters of our Books : Every-day resistances by Greek women in Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Eftychia Vagena; [2016]
    Keywords : resistance; everyday; migrant; women; decolonial; feminism; border thinking; intersectionality;

    Abstract : This work is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of everyday knowledges and practices to re-address the issue of resistance, problematise the existing notions and create re-articulations. In what follows, I am investigating the main intersections of discrimination in the experience of the latest wave of Greek women migrants in Sweden in order to single out and analyze the ways and tools of their everyday resistance and re-existence. READ MORE

  4. 8. Cross-border Copyfight : European libraries re-thinking the InfoSoc Directive

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Karolina Andersdotter; [2015]
    Keywords : copyright; eu copyright; libraries and copyright; infosoc directive; libraries; information policy; collective rights management; upphovsrätt; upphovsrätt i eu; bibliotek och upphovsrätt; infosoc-direktivet; bibliotek; informationspolitik; avtalslicenser;

    Abstract : This master's thesis focuses on the argumentation of library organisations and European national libraries in their contributions to the European Commission's public consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules. This study aims to explain how the debate around copyright limitations and exceptions is constructed in library stakeholders' contributions. READ MORE

  5. 9. We have received borders not to move

    University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab/Metallformgivning

    Author : Anita van Doorn; [2015]
    Keywords : Governmentality; control; power structures; Foucault; national border; borderlines; illegal; inculcation; ideology; corpus; social body; nationalism; ritual;

    Abstract : Institutions of power exert their control over us, sometimes in very obvious and grand ways, but also often in far more insidious and covert ways. This paper looks at forms of control, specifically relating to movement of individuals and populations, that are exerted on the body, internalised by the body and subsequently expressed through the body. READ MORE

  6. 10. Hållbarhetscertifiering av stadsdelar, försäljningsretorik eller hållbar stadsutveckling?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : Jens Thulin; [2014]
    Keywords : BREEAM Communities; hållbar stadsutveckling; miljö; urban grönska; certifiering; Malmö stad;

    Abstract : I arbetet med att bygga den hållbara staden får komplexiteten ses som en av de största utmaningarna. I takt med vetenskapens utveckling och alla nya forsk-ningsresultat blir arbetet dessutom hela tiden mer komplext. År 2007 nåddes brytpunkten då över hälften av världens befolkning var bosatta i städer. READ MORE