Essays about: "confrontation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 70 essays containing the word confrontation.

  1. 1. Damned if you do, damned if you don't : How nonbinary students navigate identity in higher education

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Amanda Berglund; [2023]
    Keywords : cisnormativity; nonbinary; nonbinary identities; non-binary; Sweden; higher education; microaggressions; gender minority stress;

    Abstract : The gender binary is a pervasive idea in society which suggests that there only exist two genders – man and woman. The wide array of differing gender identities would suggest otherwise. Identifying as nonbinary means that you reject the gender binary and identify somewhere between, in both, or beyond the binary. READ MORE

  3. 2. Encountering Diversity Before and Beyond the District Courts : The Saamis’ Situation in North-Western Jämtland 1649–1700

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Sigrid Ejemar; [2023]
    Keywords : Saami; Jämtland; district court records; seventeenth century; encounters; local communities; borderlands; settler colonialism;

    Abstract : This thesis utilises district court records from the three judicial districts of Hammerdal, Offerdal, and Undersåker to shed light on Saamis’ presence in north-western Jämtland during the seventeenth century. The research question posed is how encounters with the local communities shaped the Saamis’ situation during a period of emerging colonial mores and contributes to the discussion on how encounters with others impacted the situation for the Saami in early modern Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 3. Indigeneity and Industry at Bovanenkovo- Cooperation? Confrontation? Justice?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Evan Goss; [2022]
    Keywords : Nenets; Bovanenkovo; energy justice; Russian gas industry; indigenous peoples; reindeer pastoralism; Yamal.;

    Abstract : The Nenets, an indigenous peoples in the North of Russia, are increasingly being affected by the gas industry. The increasing prioritisation of extractive industries, the status of the Arctic as a bellwether and the threatened situation of indigenous people in Russia has drawn greater attention to this field of study. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cold War Politics and Sports : Ice Hockey Competitions and the Image of the USSR in Western Mass Media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Oscar Angestav; [2022]
    Keywords : Sports; Politics; Cold War; Ice hockey; Soviet Union; USA; Canada; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : The notion that politics and sport should not be mixed together have been a common notion throughout the 20th century. Nevertheless, the fact that sport is political has continuously been revealed and apparent, in particular during the period of the Cold War. READ MORE

  6. 5. disorder, defiance & disobedience : negotiating the city through the confrontations of graffiti—tools for reimagining our rights within the built environment

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Sahlberg Ellen; [2022]
    Keywords : the built environment; anarchist architecture; graffiti; disorder in the built environment; critical architectural theory; critical urban studies; experimental spatial design; the right to the city; space and politics;

    Abstract : Architects imagine and reimagine utopia. It is a role with the task to produce cities that are liveable, beautiful, functional, flexible and inclusive. Spaces made for and together with people, and places that meet their needs and dreams. READ MORE