Essays about: "everyday embodiment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words everyday embodiment.

  1. 1. Deep Breath - An auto-reflexive account of a collective journey into the healing practices of shared, embodied, breathing meditation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap

    Author : Michel Starco; [2023]
    Keywords : Quality of safety; Belly2Belly; Liminality; Interpretive drift; Embodiment of intimacy; Embodiment; Lived religion; Intimacy; Co-regulation; Intercorporeity; Ritual; Auto-reflexive ethnography; Negotiating somatic consent; Habitus; Socialization; Polyvagal theory.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : When we first encounter past traumatic experiences in ourselves, we are left with a conundrum; how are we to move forward in our everyday lives and thrive, rather than just cope and survive? By participating in the Belly2Belly ritual, providing analytical reflections and a detailed account from an auto-reflexive perspective, I attempt in this thesis to show, through the Belly2Belly ritual, how participants progress from a state of ill-being into a state of well-being, a form of evolution of well-being. This, it can be argued, takes form when the ritual participants are provided with the opportunity to engage with their unconscious habitus and autonomous physiological reactions through embodiment of intimacy. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Everyday racism is not something that keeps me up at night” : The second-generation Afro-Swedes experience of public spaces as racialized and gendered bodies.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Malleel Abdullahi; [2022]
    Keywords : Afro-Swedes; intersectionality; everyday racism; public spaces; the racialization of space; inclusive; exclusive.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how the second-generation Afro-Swedes experience everyday racism in public spaces as racialized and gendered bodies. The three key dimensions of study are to recognize (1) blackness in public space, (2) experiences of everyday racism in public space, and (3) coping strategies to everyday racism. READ MORE

  4. 3. Fashion Beyond Sight : Perceptions of fashion and dress by visually impaired women in Finland

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Mikko Kukkonen; [2021]
    Keywords : non-visual fashion and dress; material culture; everyday embodiment; visually impaired people; habitus; field of fashion; aesthetic knowledge; diversity;

    Abstract : Understanding fashion and dress is frequently dictated by the sense of sight and the social fact of visibility. This thesis aims to explore the phenomenon of non-visual fashion and dress with a particular focus on visually impaired people and their bodies as a site of knowledge production. READ MORE

  5. 4. Quantifying human needs? : A case study of the Swedish disability policy concerning personal assistance support for basic needs

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Sara-Lina Lock; [2021]
    Keywords : Disability policy; personal assistance; basic needs; food assistance; nutrition feeding; breathing; intersectionality; integrity; embodiment; human value; non-measurable needs;

    Abstract : This case study aimed to do a critical, intersectional, policy analysis of a disability policy regarding personal assistance support for basic human needs in everyday life. In January 2019, a comprehensive preparatory report about new suggestions was presented by the Swedish Government. READ MORE

  6. 5. Let's Do Away with Urban : Autoethnographic Adventures in Stockholms län

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Olivia Butler; [2020]
    Keywords : Urban; Rural; Spatiology; Political Ecology; Embodiment; Emplacement; Stockholm;

    Abstract : The spatial categorisations of urban and rural are still used in academia, lay terminology and policy formation in spite of a postmodern obsession with the deconstruction of binaries. Hitherto, the urban rural dichotomy has been exposed to little scrutiny, and the critiques that have been made come from the epistemological standpoint of total urbanisation which assumes the rural will be effaced by a perennial urban sprawl. READ MORE