Essays about: "feminist practice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 97 essays containing the words feminist practice.

  1. 1. Embracing a precarious life : A study on the instabilities of the life of an independent dance artist

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för danspedagogik

    Author : Clara Sjölin; [2023]
    Keywords : Dance; Insabillity; independent dance artist; precariat; collective; leadership; collaboration; diffractive analysis;

    Abstract : The research question that motivates this study is: how might I, together with a collective of dance artists, explore stability while embracing instability? Looking at the precarious lives of independent dance artists in the context of Europe, this research seeks ways to understand and cope with the various unstable aspects that come with this lifestyle and profession. I place this study in relation to current economic trends where the individual is increasingly in focus, with very few social security rights, and where the dancer is often faced with solitary living and working situations. READ MORE

  3. 2. From Policy to Practice : Addressing the Challenges of Women Refugees in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda

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

    Author : Johan Diez; [2023]
    Keywords : Peace and Conflict Studies; Refugee Policy; UNHCR; UN Women; Peace; and Security Agenda; Bidibidi Refugee Settlement; Yumbe District; Uganda Refugee Policy; Local Action Plan; National Action Plan; Ethnography; Applied Social Sciences; Case Study; Constructivism; Document Analysis; Thematic Analysis; Interviews; Women in Development; Women and Development; Gender and Development; Women in Forced Migration; Decentralization; Negative Peace; Positive Peace; Situational Peace; Cultural Violence; Structural Violence; Direct Violence; Positive Peacebuilding; Feminist Peace Theory;

    Abstract : This applied social sciences case study examines the efficiency of the ‘Yumbe Local Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security’ in addressing the perceived and experienced adversities of women refugees in the Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda. This is done by collecting data from the Bidibidi settlement through interviews and discussions with the refugee and host population, as well as with relevant organizations and governmental actors. READ MORE

  4. 3. Art e miss

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för dans

    Author : Argyri Roula Samiotaki; [2023]
    Keywords : dance; fiction; tranformation; repetition; mythology; wild woman archetype;

    Abstract : The project of Art e miss is a moving practice and research, an embodied exploration of the wild woman archetype. The research is aiming to practice ways to mobilize one-female-self in situations of feeling restricted. It is about approaching ways of mobilizing oneself to act and transform situations and moments of friction. READ MORE

  5. 4. Rolling with Pain – A Sociological Investigation Into the Meaning-Making of Physical Pain

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Sofie Grann Lorentsen; [2023]
    Keywords : pain; physical-pain; meaning-making; phenomenology; Sara Ahmed; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate the experience of physical pain. Through an analysis and assessment of the data in the form of qualitative interviews collected for this thesis, the aim has been to show that meaning-making is fundamental to our experience of (physical) pain. READ MORE

  6. 5. ‘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