Essays about: "situatedness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word situatedness.

  1. 1. “Can you check me?” : A phenomenological study on the experience of menstruating at school in the Swedish context

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Eira Nylander; [2023]
    Keywords : menstrual equity; menstruation; stigma; taboo; school; stockholm; solidarity; embodiment;

    Abstract : The topic of menstruation has gained traction in the last couple of decades amongst critical menstruation scholars and feminist theorists, but it was not until 2015 (“The Year of the Period”) that the topic of menstruation entered mainstream conversations, and policymakers across the globe started taking tangible steps towards menstrual equity. Yet, there is little sociological work done on menstruation, an experience that is still shrouded in stigma and taboo in many cultures. READ MORE

  3. 2. Narratives in Conversation : A Study of Russia’s Strategic Narratives and Internarrativity

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Ludwig Modin; [2023]
    Keywords : Strategic narratives; master narratives; Russia; history; discourses; narrative analysis; international relations; internarrativity;

    Abstract : In general, previous research on Russia’sstrategic narratives has assumed that Russian narratorsinstrumentally refer to other narratives to enhance the strategic narratives’ persuasiveness.Consequently, the implication is that the Russian narrators are unconstrained by their sociocultural situatedness since they are supposedly free to exploit other narratives for reasons of strategic benefit. READ MORE

  4. 3. Knowing To Transform : Sustainability and Openness In a (Post?)Colonial World

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

    Author : Navit Reid; [2023]
    Keywords : sustainability; open knowledge; braided knowledge; knowledge systems; situated knowledges; post-qualitative; communities of practice; transformation;

    Abstract : Sustainability is seen as the solution to the wicked crisis of our unsustainability. However, the ways in which we know, understand, and enact sustainable solutions can often mean our participation reinforces the systems, institutions, and paradigms which have created our unsustainable societies in the first place. READ MORE

  5. 4. Considering biographical learining through transformative experiences. Observing an adult’s self-recognised learning and development through experience

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Oscar Funeskog; [2022-11-25]
    Keywords : adult informal learning; self-awareness; situatedness; biographical learning informed by transformational learning processes; ; meta-cognitions;

    Abstract : Aim: This thesis aims at aiding a better understanding of how a person reacts to and understand their own role and place in changing life contexts. The thesis provides a groundwork for understanding the meta-cognitive processes of self-reflective biographical learning perspectives. READ MORE

  6. 5. Medicalizing Me Softly: An Autoethnography of Refusal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Han Amm; [2022]
    Keywords : transmedicalism; truscum; transnormativity; nonbinary; autoethnography; refusal; liminality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This autoethnographic study explores intra-community discursive boundary constructions around the category of transgender articulated by truscum trans men on Reddit. It does so through reflections on how the author negotiates the medical model of trans, his own gender identity, the medico-juridical interlock governing access to trans healthcare and trans livability, and tensions of closeness/distance to those they interview. READ MORE