Essays about: "subjectivation"
Found 5 essays containing the word subjectivation.
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1. The Role of Emotions in Ontological Conflicts : A Case Study of the Territorial Conflict Between the State of British Columbia, Coastal GasLink, and the Wet’suwe’ten
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : For almost two decades, Coastal GasLink, with the support of the State of British Columbia (B.C.), Canada, has sought to build a hydrofracking gas pipeline, which would cross a large part of Wet’suwet’en Nation’s territories. READ MORE
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2. I speak, I lie, I admit
University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för dansAbstract : This essay accompanies Hokuto Kodama’s choreographic work Untitled (I speak, I lie, I admit), following its creation process. Through investigating the process of subjectivation of dancers using the theory of Michel Foucault, the essay questions the conventional tendency to ignore the relationship between linguistic activity and choreographed dance. READ MORE
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3. Exotic Dance and Other Stories of Transformations– An Ethnographic Study in Swedish Strip Clubs
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : The main question of this thesis is how in the social world of stripping the dominant order of symbolic values is renegotiated and exotic dancers undertake processes of transformation. The aim of the study is to look deeper inside those changes, and show how they are contextual to the reality in which they take place. READ MORE
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4. Biopower and Precarity: Meeting Embodied Self in the Discourses of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Ukraine
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In this thesis I examine the connection between female embodiment and subjectivation, technologization of reproduction and rationalities of government in Ukraine, where assisted reproductive technologies (ART) were introduced not so long ago, but have already become part of the lived experience of numerous women and heated a large debate in society about the nature of women, motherhood, national duty, citizenship and demographic crisis. Moreover, the study I accomplish is necessitated by the growing importance of Ukraine as a colonial market of cheap donor egg cells and as a target of transnational reproductive travel engendered by commercial surrogacy industry. READ MORE
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5. Ungdomshuset - Resistance Within a Normalization Process and the Production of Subversive Situations
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis answers questions of what it is that constitutes a struggle enclosing the conflict between Ungdomshuset and the municipality of Copenhagen during the years of 2006-2008 and what this struggle produces in terms of different stories and different futures. The purpose is to create a link between a poststructuralist critique and a critical theoretical strategy as the thesis argues that such a link would be fruitful for feminist activist strategies. READ MORE
