Essays about: "relational identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words relational identity.

  1. 1. ‘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

  2. 2. Echoes of the past: A Qualitative Study on Personal and Historical Nostalgia and their Impact on Consumer Identity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Filippa Möller; Linnéa Wrobel; [2023]
    Keywords : Nostalgia; personal nostalgia; historical nostalgia; Consumer Culture Theory CCT ; Belk; Goffman; Holt; identity; identity myths; self-presentation; possessions; consumption; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Thesis Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore young consumers' identity creation in the context of nostalgic consumption and marketing. The study seeks to deepen the understanding of how young consumers construct their identities by exploring the impact of two forms of nostalgia, personal and historical. READ MORE

  3. 3. Discursive Identities in Foreign Policy : A poststructuralist discourse analysis of the EU’s foreign policy discourse on China at the time of war

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sara Lindholm; [2023]
    Keywords : identities; foreign policy; discourses; discourse analysis; European Union; EU; China; poststructuralism;

    Abstract : How do shifting geopolitical landscapes influence foreign policy discourses and identities of international actors? This thesis analyses the discursive identities constructed in the European Union’s official foreign policy discourse on China since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The EU-China relationship is complex, and recent literature has identified that the EU’s discourse toward China has become more assertive and securitized. READ MORE

  4. 4. Inclusive education, where, how and for whom? : A qualitative analysis of discourses of inclusion and disability among Swedish podcasts

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

    Author : Blanka Nizic; Julia Carlbäcker; [2023]
    Keywords : children; inclusion; disability; diversity; school;

    Abstract : The complex and ambiguous understanding of the concept of inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools in Sweden as well as internationally results in a frustration for both teachers, parents and mainly, the children themselves due to excluding practices where the right to education is not fulfilled. This study builds on previous research and contributes to the understanding of the concept of inclusion and its struggle of fixing the meaning. READ MORE

  5. 5. Mapping out the problem of vacant houses in Japan : a case study of Kochi prefecture

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

    Author : Julia Olsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Vacant houses; Akiya; Japan; Depopulation; Urban-rural relations; Rural imaginaries; Sense of place theory; Non-human agency; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how local residents in rural Japan navigate the phenomenon of vacant houses (akiya), to understand the impact it has on their sense of place. The study is based on fieldwork conducted in Kochi prefecture, and relies on data from interviews, documents, photographs, and participant observation. READ MORE