Essays about: "intimate relationships"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words intimate relationships.

1. 1. Chasing Shadows : An Anthropological Expedition of the Hunt for Olle Högbom

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Viktor Andersson; [2024]
   Keywords : Disappearance; Missingness; Hauntology; Ruinology; Simulacra; Liminality; Ethnography; Anthropology;

   Abstract : This essay explores the mysterious disappearance of Olle Högbom from an anthropological perspective. It uses theories of hauntology, ruinology, and simulacra to examine how Olle's absence continues to affect society. READ MORE

3. 2. Between Power and Resistance: Viewing the Ethics of AI through the Application of Foucault's Ethical Naturalism to the Power Dynamics Embedded in the Debate over Intimate Human/Chatbot Relationships

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Timothy Andrew York; [2023]
   Keywords : Artificial intelligence ethics; Values in Design; chatbot; Foucault; ethical naturalism; technologies of the self; social control; human-AI relationships; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Amid rising worry around human and AI alignment and citing concerns for data privacy and content inappropriate for children and the “emotionally vulnerable”, the Italian government recently imposed a complete ban against the Replika chatbot within Italy. Following the issuance of the ban and citing similar concerns over safety, the designer/owner of the technology, Luka, Inc. READ MORE

4. 3. Performing Mother and Daughter : A Postdramatic Performance Analysis of Three Contemporary Theatre Productions

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Elin Sandberg Hensch; [2023]
   Keywords : motherhood; postdramatic theatre; Hans-Thies Lehmann; performance analysis; mother-daughter relationship; contemporary theatre; Teater Galeasen; Kulturhuset Stadsteatern; Maxim Gorki Theater;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis is concerned with the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage. By conducting performance analyses of three separate contemporary performances, all focused on mother-daughter relationships, the thesis investigates the creation of mother and daughter on stage. READ MORE

5. 4. The Conversion of Indigenous Peoples to Pentecostalism in Times of Decolonization and its Potential Consequences on Identity Perception : A narrative research study in Bolivia

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Fanny Hagberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Indigenous; religion; Bolivia; La Paz; Quellani; Copacabana; Cochabamba; Decolonization; Pentecostalism; Catholicism; conversion; syncretism; identity perception; narrative analysis. ;

   Abstract : The research was carried out to show the potential consequences of the conversion of indigenous peoples in Bolivia to Pentecostalism. The research was based on a research conducted by Canessa in 2000 on two movements already taking place at the time of his research, the rise of Indigeonus recognition in society and the rise of Pentecostalism. READ MORE

6. 5. Thinking with Ai Stratis : Becoming-Tourist, Becoming-Researcher in a More-Than-Human-World

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Byggteknik och byggd miljö

   Author : Paulina Raduchowska; [2022]
   Keywords : Ai Stratis; Agios Efstratios; island; tourism; research; becoming; affect; posthuman; multispecies; landscape; Deleuze; ethics of care; more-than-human; sustainability; futurity; assemblage; environmental humanities; ontological turn; guest; host;

   Abstract : This study discusses the difference between thinking with and about the island of Ai Stratis for knowledge production, advocating for situated research and embodied experience. Having conducted an ethnographic study, on the island of Ai Stratis in the North Aegean region of Greece in the summer of 2021, I look out from the island, assuming a tree-fold research field, including the physical island of Ai Stratis, a plane of reflexivity, as well as a literary plane. READ MORE