Essays about: "cultural domination"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 21 essays containing the words cultural domination.

  1. 6. Orientalism - A Netflix Unlimited Series : A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the Orientalist Representations of Arab Identify on Netflix Film and Television

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Stefan Maatouk; [2021]
    Keywords : Netflix; Orientalism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Othering; Media; Power; Knowledge; Ideology; Hegemony;

    Abstract : Orientalism was a term developed by post-colonial theorist Edward Said to describe the ways in which Europeans, or the West, portrayed the Orient as inferior, uncivilized, and wholly anti-Western. Netflix Inc. READ MORE

  3. 7. Pushing buttons: an ethnographic interview study on toxicity in online gaming cultures

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Ruben Melin; [2021]
    Keywords : toxicity; online gaming; symbolic violence; cultural domination; masculinity;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to research toxicity through how it was understood, experienced, and described by game enthusiasts. The toxicity described is further explored through theories of cultural and symbolic domination and through feminist game studies and the lens of masculinity theory. READ MORE

  4. 8. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
    Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE

  5. 9. Domination in the name of Democracy? : The means and ends to the European Union’s democracy promotion

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Karin Stångberg; [2021]
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    Abstract : In recent years we have been able to witness a growing divide in the politics of democracy promotion, research in the field has taken a more critical turn and is proclaiming a legitimacy crisis of democracy promotion. Some of the most prominent critique comes from the field of postcolonialism where authors argue that the desire to intervene and democratise another society should be considered an imperial project. READ MORE

  6. 10. Eastern Nigeria at the Crossroads of Culture : Cultural Hybridity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Micheline Grönlund; [2020]
    Keywords : cultural hybridity; pre-colonialism; colonialism; post-colonialism; essentializing; alternating; converting; hybridizing;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes the four initial stages in the process of cultural hybridization as put forward by Chan Kwok-bun in his book Cultural Hybridity: essentializing, alternating, converting and hybridizing. These stages are examined in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart through a mapping to show how a cultural hybrid is formed. READ MORE