Essays about: "my own utopia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words my own utopia.

1. 1. Apocalypse Fatigue

   University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

   Author : Amanda Islam Gustafsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Apocalypse; Illustration; Utopia; Dystopia; Organisms; Animism; Spirituality; Visual sustainability; Nature; Apokalyps; Illustration; Utopi; Dystopi; Organismer; Animism; Andlighet; Visuell Hållbarhet; Natur;

   Abstract : In this project I am exploring 6 different life forms; snail, slime mold, frog, rock, moss, and fungi. I am approaching these life-forms as agent entities for me to channel, and act for them as vessels. READ MORE

3. 2. Be beautiful and speak up : Africana beauty at the forefront of an inclusive Internet beauty culture.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : KENZA ALOUI; [2022]
   Keywords : Acceptance; African; Africana; autoethnography; beauty; beauty industry; change; community; culture; decoloniality; diaspora; empowerment; existentialism; exoticization; feminist studies; heritage; inclusivity; Internet; intersectionality; interviews; norms; performativity; phenomenology; policing; race; racism; radical; self-love; utopia; women of color.;

   Abstract : The beauty industry has been booming in the last few years, generating immense profits as it now translates into an Internet global beauty culture in its own right that finally made room for women of color. As research barely mentions African women and their diasporas, this study aims to critically analyze the dynamic of this North American-dominated Internet beauty culture celebrating non-white women, looking at how it impacts African women and their diasporas and participates in affirming a global woman of color through commodity capitalism. READ MORE

4. 3. CONSTRUCTING SAFE SPACES The potential of performing feminist critical utopia analyzed through zine-making

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Louise Mazet; [2019-10-10]
   Keywords : safe space; feminist utopia; performativity; zine-making; environmental activism;

   Abstract : Safe spaces are constructed to offer a space of acceptance to an otherwise marginalized or vulnerable group. This thesis explores the connections between safe spaces and feminist (critical) utopianism through their inherent paradoxality. While safe spaces attempt to make people feel included, they often function through the exclusion of others. READ MORE

5. 4. The Rights Source : Libertarianism, Self-Ownership, and Justice in Transfer

   University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik

   Author : Molly Sinderbrand; [2010]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In this paper, I plan to explore whether giving gifts, inheritance, or charity can be justified using the concept of self-ownership. I will be using Robert Nozick's principle of justice in transfer in his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia as my foundation, and I will determine whether gifts – as a form of transfer – are compatible with this principle. READ MORE

6. 5. Drömmer du nu igen, lille vän? En begreppsanalys av Utopin och dess skiftande former

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Abe Bergegårdh; [2009]
   Keywords : Begreppsanalys; Karl Mannheim; Ideologi; Utopi; Ernst Bloch; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Utopian studies, and the word Utopia it self, have always been controversial. In common language utopia often connects to something negative, something impossible. Diverse academic disciplines have their own definition of the word and concept. These heterogeneous views of utopia complicate the discussion in the scientific community. READ MORE