Essays about: "embodying age."

Found 3 essays containing the words embodying age..

1. 1. Embodying the Alternative : Indigenous Activism Online in Response to Reconciliation with Canada.

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

   Author : Martina Basciani; [2023]
   Keywords : Indigenous people; Canada; Reconciliation; activism; digital ethnography;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates strategies of digital activism pursued by Indigenous activists in the age of Reconciliation in Canada. The point of departure is the relationship between Indigenous people and the settler establishment, which has been historically informed by several attempts to assimilate the Natives into the white majority. READ MORE

3. 2. “It’s natural” : An exploration of age analysis in intersectional feminism

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Anneli Friis; [2016]
   Keywords : Intersectional feminism; age; age relations; ageism; ageing; embodying age.; Intersektionell feminism; ålder; åldersrelationer; ålderism; åldrande; förkroppsliga ålder.;

   Abstract : Historically, age has been and still is a major organizing principle for social relations and the allotment of resources and power, yet age is very seldom acknowledged as a social categorization in its own right and in intersection with other identity categorizations. While feminist scholarship and activism have deconstructed racist and sexist discourses, in which biology is often used to legitimize social injustice, the presupposed naturalness of ageism is rarely challenged. READ MORE

4. 3. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
   Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE