Essays about: "social alienation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 71 essays containing the words social alienation.

  1. 1. Att få politiken på kroken : en etnografisk studie över hur åländska fiskare uppfattar och agerar i sitt yrke

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Anni Holmström; [2023]
    Keywords : småskaligt fiske; Åland; habitus; redovisningskultur; alienation; den gemensamma fiskeripolitiken; säl; förädling;

    Abstract : Fisket har enligt tradition varit viktigt på Åland men är ett yrke som alltmer håller på att försvinna. Ökade utmaningar i form av begränsningar och regelverk, samt miljömässiga faktorer stramar åt fiskarnas olika möjligheter att bedriva deras näring. READ MORE

  3. 2. Capitalism, Industrialism, and Hard Times : Satire and Social Critique in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Seth Blohm; [2023]
    Keywords : Marxism; Satire; Hard Times; Class Struggle; Social Stratification; Alienation; Mechanization; Capitalism;

    Abstract : This essay will analyze a selection of characters from Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times. Characterizations will be analyzed by using a Marxist theoretical framework, e.g., characters’ relations to Marxist concepts such as class struggle, alienation, and stratification will be studied. READ MORE

  4. 3. Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Control and Self-Expression of Modern-Day Freak Show Performers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Dana Stepankova; [2023]
    Keywords : freak; freak shows; BDSM; body suspension; edgework; dark play; subculture; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract Author: Dana Štěpánková Title: Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Control and Self-Expression of ModernDay Freak Show Performers Supervisor: Sébastien Tutenges Master’s Thesis SOCM04, Cultural Criminology, 30 credits Department of Sociology, Spring 2023 Freak shows have been historically depicted as dehumanizing spectacles exhibiting individuals with physical anomalies. Over time, these shows faded away, but human curiosity and fascination with difference and deviance have brought them back in a new form. READ MORE

  5. 4. Administrative Transfers by Settler Colonial States and Their Subjugation of Native Populations’ Land Use - A study on mechanisms of settler colonial states in Sweden and Canada during the second half of the nineteenth century

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Cajsa Sjölin; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how administrative transfers by settler colonial states in nineteenth-century Sweden and Canada contributed to the subjugation of indigenous land use. Using qualitative analysis of historical documents and legal sources, the study reveals the pervasive presence of administrative transfers and their implications. READ MORE

  6. 5. Future Imaginaries of Negative Emission Technologies and Folklore Myths in Icelandic Basalt: Provisional Order Emerges from the Possible Magma in the Age of ‘Hauntology’ and Broken Time

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Rikke Jespersen; [2023]
    Keywords : NETs; Desire; Green Capitalism; Imaginaries; Storytelling; Pluriverse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Why do we in the Western part of world today tend to believe in technology’s mythical promises rather than in folklore myths? Imaginaries of the future influence political subjects’ actions in the present and play a key role in composing the trajectory towards the future. I have critically applied this notion to the implementation of negative emission technologies in the climate-neutrality strategy. READ MORE