Essays about: "kinds of discourse"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 44 essays containing the words kinds of discourse.

  1. 1. Politics at Play: Analyzing discussions on political protests in Animal Crossing - New Horizons

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Cecilia Lundström; [2023]
    Keywords : Foucault; political discourse; protesting; video games; Animal Crossing; ludology; online communication; politisk diskurs; protester; tv-spel; ludologi; onlineforum; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Executing and performing political protests is not just for the streets. A number of political protests have been held in video games, using the features of the game to convey political messages. In a world where there is ample possibility to communicate online, players are able to discuss these protests in online communities. READ MORE

  3. 2. Incorporating local, and placed-based knowledge in resource management: An anthropological study of coral reef entanglements in Costa Rica

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Hanna Doverhag Utbult; [2022-08-24]
    Keywords : Human-environmental relations; Governmentality; Place-based knowledge; Sustainability; TEK; Costa Rica;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to better understand how different local actors in Arenas1 on the Talamancan coast in Costa Rica can work together and contribute to forms of more sustainable resource management. The study shows that local actors understand sustainable development as the restoration of relationships to the coral reefs. READ MORE

  4. 3. "We Have Space For You" Promoted Migration and Selective Inclusion? Dutch Migration in a Swedish Context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hanna Mächs; [2021]
    Keywords : Intra-EU migration; skilled work; bordering practices; gender; ’whiteness’; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Every year, a big number of Swedish municipalities market themselves through an Emigration fair in Holland, with the aim to attract Dutch workforce, or more generally, bring new inhabitants to their respective region. In the marketing campaigns, specific stereotypic images of Sweden emerge, that are said to be specifically attractive to the putative Dutch migrants. READ MORE

  5. 4. THE POTENTIAL OF TRALLPUNK : Constituting masculinity in a Swedish punk scene

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Anders Boström; [2021]
    Keywords : Trallpunk; Swedish punk; punk; interviews; song lyrics; discourse analysis; performativity; gender performance; hegemonic masculinity; masculinity; gender;

    Abstract : Music is a ubiquitous part of society and has some capacity for spurring social change by stirring emotions with people. The music genre of punk is overtly political and promotes different kinds of social change, and all this makes punk relevant to study for the social sciences and humanities. READ MORE

  6. 5. "Words Hide Truth": National belonging in Marian Engel’s Bear and Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Edda Ahrent; [2021]
    Keywords : National identity; national belonging; Marian Engel; Bear; Tessa McWatt; Out of My Skin; Canadian Literature; CanLit; Discourse theory; Discourse analysis; post-colonialism; gender; bodies; pioneer; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The famous problem of Canadian Literature in the contemporary critical landscape is how it, as an institution, denies all but certain kinds of identities. Alexander Beecroft suggests that a national literature, through its attempts to locate and articulate a communal identity and a notion of fellow-feeling, curates characteristics among members of previously numerous groups which can function to denote nationalistic identity. READ MORE