Essays about: "phenomenology of life"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 62 essays containing the words phenomenology of life.

1. 1. Business doing pleasure? A comparative interview study of experiences of vulnerability and strategies of resistance amongst sexworkers in Sweden and the Netherlands

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Linnéa Falk; [2024]
   Keywords : sexwork; vulnerability; resistance; intersectionality; interviews; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Sexwork is a complex phenomenon. There are different forms of legislation surrounding the issue, ranging from complete decriminalization/legalization to complete criminalization. In this thesis, the cases of Sweden and the Netherlands are compared. READ MORE

3. 2. ‘A Catalyst Into Queer Life’: Gender-Open Parenting as an Abolitionist Practice

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Pao Zuccotti; [2023]
   Keywords : Abolitionist Phenomenology; Gender Abolition; Gender-Open Parenting; Gender Creative Parenting; Gender Neutral Parenting; Transgender Studies;

   Abstract : As practitioners of gender-open parenting, the refusal to impose a gendersex identity on children, my interviewee/collaborator and I engage in a dialogic interview about our shared embodied, everyday, relational parenting practices. I ask: What do we do when we do gender-open parenting? What does gender-open parenting do? If Marquis Bey and their black trans feminist theory set the scene, Sara Ahmed provides me with the concepts to move the methodology toward an abolitionist phenomenology beyond resistance to cisgender ideology. READ MORE

4. 3. Living among gods – The Capacocha children : A hermeneutic analysis of the Chakana philosophy

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : Frida Ekberg Toscano; [2023]
   Keywords : Capacocha ritual; Huacas; Chakana; Inca world belief; sacred landscape; offerings; phenomenology theory; hermeneutic spiral;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to study the Capacocha, which is an Inca ritual where children were offered to their gods in the sacred places called Huacas (places of origin) and offered artefacts together with the children links to the Inca's sacred symbol, the Chakana, which in turn it is the life philosophy of the Inca culture. This thesis uses this philosophy to understand the phenomenon and the elements that define Huacas and the Capacocha ritual. READ MORE

5. 4. The idea of ​​organising healthcare around a person, their story and world of life : A study about person-centred care translated by actors

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Mavis Zander; [2023]
   Keywords : person-centred care; translation; interpretation; idea; healthcare; partnership; practice; power; alteration;

   Abstract : I deal with translations of the idea of person-centred care in this paper. The idea has spread, and it is seen as the contemporary solution to national and international healthcare issues. Scandinavian neo-institutionalism focuses on alteration through processing of ideas regarding context and variation between organisations. READ MORE

6. 5. Chimeric Mimicry : Reflection and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

   Author : Oscar Amcoff; [2023]
   Keywords : animal-studies; human-animal relation; merleau-ponty; merleau-ponty nature; chimera; chimerical; animal reflection; reflection of nature; human-animal divide; carnologocentrism; animal philosophy; animal phenomenology; phenomenology of nature; merleau-ponty and the animal; ineinander; animal embodiment;

   Abstract : In this paper, I attempt to understand how Merleau-Ponty views the relation between nature and reflection, as well as the meaning behind the terms “human” and “animal” and the relations between them. I approach this by outlining the transition from Merleau-Ponty’s early philosophy (SB, PP) to his late philosophy (N, VI). READ MORE