Essays about: "chrononormativity"

Found 3 essays containing the word chrononormativity.

  1. 1. Professional aging? A critical exploration of the doings of age employed by contemporary Swedish professionals

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Elin Hunger; Anni-Maria Loukasmäki; [2019]
    Keywords : Age; Chrononormativity; Critical discourse analysis; Gender; Subject position;

    Abstract : This thesis departs from a problematization of how and why certain age categories implicitly are associated with 'trouble' and aims to contribute to the current body of research on ages and aging in professional and working life. This is done through the adoption of a critical epistemology and a moderately constructionist ontology that allow for questioning and unpacking of taken-for-granted assumptions on age. READ MORE

  3. 2. Non-normative Family on Children's Television : Queering Kinship, Temporality and Reproduction on Steven Universe

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Paulina Kozuchova; [2018]
    Keywords : queer family; queer temporality; queer kinship; queer reproduction; normativity; Steven Universe; Cartoon Network; children’s animation;

    Abstract : The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine queer aspects of the animated television show Steven Universe (2013-present), created by Rebecca Sugar and produced by Cartoon Network. Situating Steven Universe in the context of Cartoon Network and children’s animation in general, and drawing on queer theory, as well as feminist cultural studies and kinship studies, the thesis aims to contribute to understanding of non-normative family representation in children’s entertainment. READ MORE

  4. 3. Whatever happens, I will never sell the mountains - A reparative analysis of the temporal, political, emotional and intellectual aspects of crafting

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Linnea Isberg; [2015-09-09]
    Keywords : crafting; chrononormativity; tacit knowledge; embodiment; time; reparative reading; writing; economization of time;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate time and the values connected to different uses of time. What use is legitimate, and what is seen as a waste of time? I will argue that a general notion of time as ‘bad’ or ‘useless’ will place objects, subjects and practices in the marginal, but also establish what should be seen as important or not, which makes us value things into good and bad, effective and ineffective, worthwhile and useless. READ MORE