Essays about: "everyday resistance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 essays containing the words everyday resistance.

1. 1. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Sara Calmius; [2024]
   Keywords : Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

   Abstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE

3. 2. Att få politiken på kroken : en etnografisk studie över hur åländska fiskare uppfattar och agerar i sitt yrke

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Anni Holmström; [2023]
   Keywords : småskaligt fiske; Åland; habitus; redovisningskultur; alienation; den gemensamma fiskeripolitiken; säl; förädling;

   Abstract : Fisket har enligt tradition varit viktigt på Åland men är ett yrke som alltmer håller på att försvinna. Ökade utmaningar i form av begränsningar och regelverk, samt miljömässiga faktorer stramar åt fiskarnas olika möjligheter att bedriva deras näring. READ MORE

4. 3. ‘A Catalyst Into Queer Life’: Gender-Open Parenting as an Abolitionist Practice

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Pao Zuccotti; [2023]
   Keywords : Abolitionist Phenomenology; Gender Abolition; Gender-Open Parenting; Gender Creative Parenting; Gender Neutral Parenting; Transgender Studies;

   Abstract : As practitioners of gender-open parenting, the refusal to impose a gendersex identity on children, my interviewee/collaborator and I engage in a dialogic interview about our shared embodied, everyday, relational parenting practices. I ask: What do we do when we do gender-open parenting? What does gender-open parenting do? If Marquis Bey and their black trans feminist theory set the scene, Sara Ahmed provides me with the concepts to move the methodology toward an abolitionist phenomenology beyond resistance to cisgender ideology. READ MORE

5. 4. The Influence of Migration on Sense of Belonging and Self-Identification of the Biduns Living in Sweden

   University essay from

   Author : Sareh Rajabsemnani; [2023]
   Keywords : Belonging; identity formations; diaspora; third space; resistance; citizenship; statelessness;

   Abstract : This research presents the daily life experience of the Kuwaiti Bidun people after migration to Sweden and tries to understand how they view their sense of belonging and how they deal with the emergence of new identity formations in their everyday life practices. By taking a closer look at the different modes of belonging and new identity formations in the process of migration for the Biduns, I will analyze how new interactions, new engagements, irregularity and postcolonial roots shape sense of belonging and new identity formations. READ MORE

6. 5. Racist Police Practices, Mobilities, and the Production of Urban Space : Power, Resistance, and Subjectification in the City of Malmö

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   Author : Elvira Grahn; [2023]
   Keywords : Racial profiling; racialization; racist police practices; geopolicing; space; mobility; power and resistance; subjectification; Rasprofilering; rasifiering; mobilitet; rasistiska polispraktiker;

   Abstract : This study aims to explore the relationship between racist police practices and the production of space in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Acknowledging the systemic inequalities inherent in Nordic welfarism and how past Swedish colonialist efforts inform such systems, it presupposes that racist police practices should be considered structural rather than dependent on individual actors. READ MORE