Essays about: "material hierarchies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words material hierarchies.
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1. Strategic Spatial Planning in an Evolving Governance Structure : Decolonizing Planning in Namibia
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planeringAbstract : This research explores the challenges the Namibian government faces in the planning process when implementing policies for strategic spatial planning (SSP). The study considers the entire Namibian planning process which primarily is governed top-down but has since independence adopted policies to decentralize power. READ MORE
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2. Unpacking Representations of Masculinity in the Digital Age: A Case Study of Andrew Tate’s TikTok Presence. : Investigating Content of Andrew Tate as a Catalyst for Shifting Gender Norms and Identity Expression: A Qualitative, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Andrew Tate’s TikTok Influence and Gender Representations.
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013)Abstract : This thesis deals with topics such as masculinity, stereotypes, social media and influencers. The area of interest for the authors is how masculinity and stereotypes can be represented within social media. To investigate this, six TikTok videos of Andrew Tate have been selected. READ MORE
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3. Where Something Goes Up, Something Else Goes Down : May a meeting between textile and glass disrupt the hierarchical order among materials and techniques?
University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & MöbeldesignAbstract : We have a tendency to want to sort our surroundings, we set things against each other, value them and place them in a hierarchical order.Where something goes up, something else goes down.We attribute different properties to materials, techniques and spaces and load them with values. READ MORE
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4. An Archaeology of the Invisible? Tracing Poverty and its Ideology in the Viking Age and Urban Settlements
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : Publications have recently drawn attention to archaeology’s historically predominant focus on prestige items and the elite, highlighting the need for a greater focus on society’s lower classes. A few studies have discussed how, or even whether poverty can be addressed in historical archaeology. READ MORE
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5. Makeshift Poetry? The insolvency of neoliberalism and the solvency of the common(s) : A case study of Raumlabor's makeshift intervention Allmänna Badet in Gothenburg, Sweden
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : This thesis is the result of a set of personal concerns about, on the one hand, how the debates about the modes of expression of the neoliberal regime - particularly in the so-called "urban world" (assuming that there is something outside the "urban”, which is a discussion I did not have place for)- develop and, on the other, of a feeling of inadequacy in relation to how the so-called “urban commons” are conceptualized by many of its promoters. My way of dealing with these concerns assumes that a conceptual review of both phenomena is necessary. READ MORE
