Essays about: "racialising"

Found 3 essays containing the word racialising.

1. 1. “Are We What We Eat?” Negotiating Identities Through Cuisine and Consumption : A Thing Theory Approach to Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Man Ting Yiu; [2018]
   Keywords : Thing Theory; Materiality; Food; Objects; Cuisine; Consumption; Culinary Narrative; Diaspora; Transcultural; Hybridity; Intersectionality; Transference; Craft; Creative Writing;

   Abstract : Culinary narratives are frequently employed to portray migrant identities and societies in Asian diaspora literature This thesis examines cuisine and consumption in Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver by highlighting the socio-political linkages between material culture and ethnic identity formation of Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Using Brown’s thing theory, food is reframed as site of meaningful discourse to interrogate the role of cuisine and consumption in mediating the migrant experience. READ MORE

3. 2. Making feminist arguments against borders and regulated migration

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Disa Helander; [2015-09-09]
   Keywords : feminist theory; undocumented migration; borders; regulated migration; citizenship;

   Abstract : This thesis is about theoretical critiques and practical resistance to regulated migration specifically and borders more generally. My aim is to explore how we can make strong arguments and strategies against borders and regulated migration and, more specifically, to answer this by exploring what feminist theory can contribute to the theorising and critique of borders and regulated migration. READ MORE

4. 3. A Kurdish-Speaking Community of Change : How Social and Political Organising takes Shape in the PYD-controlled Areas in Syria

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

   Author : Harriet Rump; [2014]
   Keywords : Top-down regulations; bottom-up organising; social movements theory; contentious politics; partial and situated knowledge; racialising; essentialisng discourses; PYD; Syrian Kurdish speaking community; Kurdishness; Syria; the Arab Spring; revolution; uprising.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores current trends in social and political organising in Northern Syria, in areas controlled by the PYD. The research is built on discussions between eight participants from the Syrian Kurdish-speaking community living in the areas. READ MORE