Essays about: "postcolonial-queer theory"

Found 2 essays containing the words postcolonial-queer theory.

  1. 1. Contesting Closures: Deconstructing the Political Economy within Degrowth

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Riya Raphael; [2016]
    Keywords : degrowth; political economy; postcolonial-queer theory; Butler-Fraser debate; deconstruction; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study explores the analytical and conceptual closures within political economy and degrowth literature. In order to explore these closures, poststructural theories of postcolonial and queer have been used. READ MORE

  2. 2. From avengers to heroines: muslim*women dismantling hegemonic discourses

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Gina Waibel; [2016]
    Keywords : Queer theory; postcolonial theory; Muslim; women; racism; nationalism; gender; Europe; discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Hegemonic European discourses about muslim*women reduce the complex living realities of muslim*women to the singular of the gendered and racialized other. This thesis investigates the hegemonic functioning of these discourses and explores postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches for dismantling it. READ MORE