Essays about: "progressive culture"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 31 essays containing the words progressive culture.

1. 16. Women and Maids : Perceptions of domestic workers, house work and class among young, progressive, middle-to-upper class women in Delhi

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Otso Harju; [2016]
   Keywords : Domestic workers; Delhi; Class; Gender roles; Reflexivity; Social change; Family; India; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses ten indepth interviews on domestic workers, class and gender roles with ten young, politically inclined and often adamantly feminist women towards the upper end of the Indian class spectrum. It aims to deepen the understanding of employerworker relations and gendered domestic roles in contemporary Indian households. READ MORE

3. 17. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
   Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE

4. 18. Arkitekturpolitik : förslag till nytt innehåll i en nationell arkitekturpolitik

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Rebecca Norberg; [2015]
   Keywords : arkitekturpolitik; arkitektur; politik; landskapsarkitektur; livskvalitet; arkitekturforskning; social hållbarhet;

   Abstract : I Sverige har vi ett arkitekturpolitiskt dokument vid namn ’Framtidsformer’. I ’Framtidsformer’ lyfts att arkitektur är viktigt och att arkitektur är politiskt. READ MORE

5. 19. Signifying Gay Men in Korean TV Drama Fiction: Naturalizing the Normative in the Contrast of the Imagined Other

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Kristoffer Tingbacke; [2015]
   Keywords : Koreanska draman; Sydkorea; Imagination as social practice; Korean gay identity; Global flows; South Korea; Korean dramas; Globala flöden; Koreansk gay identitet; Föreställning som social praktik; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This essay investigates, using semiotic deconstruction, how Korean TV fiction dramas signify gay men in the contrasting of a designated 'normal' that effectively communicates heteronormativity as "myth" obscuring other ‘alternative’ ways of life. This heteronormativity is neither universal nor eternal but is rather part of the situated collective imaginings of Korean communities and people. READ MORE

6. 20. The Joy of Riding

   University essay from

   Author : Fredrik Aaro; [2015]
   Keywords : Future; mobility; interior; interaction; speculative; design; fiction;

   Abstract : 2045 a progressive European city is banning driving and BMW has to respond. Technological evolution, and a culture used to new interfaces leads to the option to recreate the relationship between human and car. READ MORE