Essays about: "movements in india"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words movements in india.

  1. 6. Voicing Women’s Rights: Being and Becoming a Women’s Rights Activist in Assam, India

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ida Scharla Løjmand; [2018]
    Keywords : Women s rights movements; Women s rights; Habitus; Capital; Assam;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on a minor field study (MFS) with the aim of investigating what habitus and forms of capital facilitate women’s rights activism in Assam, India – a state described as highly patriarchal but also a place where women enjoy higher status than elsewhere in the country. Using the concepts of capital and habitus and elements from social movement- and feminist theory, I analyze interviews with eight Assamese women’s rights activists. READ MORE

  3. 7. “Because it is too late, you cannot put it back into the box.” A qualitative study on LGBTQ activism in Mumbai

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Anika Ritter; [2017-04-27]
    Keywords : LGBTQ; Section 377; queer theory; intersectionality;

    Abstract : People of other sexual and/or gender identity than the prevailing are subject to discrimination. In India a law criminalizing homosexual acts, known as Section 377, was read down in 2009 to be reinstated in 2013. READ MORE

  4. 8. Data communication for near shore applications

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Elektricitetslära

    Author : Andreas Stetenfeldt; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The wave energy conversion concept developed at Uppsala University is based on a buoy at sea level that is connected to a linear generator on the sea bed. The movements of the buoy riding the waves gets converted into electricity by the reciprocal movements of the translator inside the generator. READ MORE

  5. 9. "I expected a male reporter" : a qualitative interview-study of the Kerala working culture in media newsrooms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Journalistik

    Author : Sofia Hermansson; [2017]
    Keywords : movements; femininity; embodiement; Gendered spaces; strategies; female empowerment; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is a qualitative interview-study of the working conditions for female journalists within an Indian and Keralan context focusing on the female body and spaces. The study takes place in the Keralan society focusing on how women journalists cope with working in a traditional male dominated area and how the female body somehow is seen as an invader in the journalism field, based on pre-assumptions on sex and gender and female placement. READ MORE

  6. 10. Frames in a social movement for safe public spaces : Problems meeting new solutions

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : David Karlström; [2017]
    Keywords : safe public spaces; social movement; frames; women;

    Abstract : Safety in public spaces has become an issue of increased concern and attention in India, after incidents of sexual harassment and violence against women. The need for safe public spaces was formulated in the civil society in New Delhi and can be described as a social movement. READ MORE