Essays about: "subjectivities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 essays containing the word subjectivities.

1. 1. When Reality Outweighs Ethics in Cancel Culture: A Theorisation, Modelling, and Empirical Exploration of Brand Cancellation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

   Author : María Isabel Viéitez Gómez; Martina Ferretti; [2022]
   Keywords : Cancel Culture; Brands; Consumer-brand Relationship; Social Media; Ethics; Reality Check.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The phenomenon of cancel culture is one we all witness and sometimes partake in, and it has recently become a hot topic in research. However, the literature on this phenomenon is still in its infancy. READ MORE

3. 2. Creation of a Common : Political Subjectivities of Staffing Agency Mediated Transnational Thai Workers

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Therese Christoffersson; [2022]
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   Abstract : This thesis investigates to what extent staffing agency mediation and employment produces a political subjectivity of transnational Thai workers in Thailand. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a general discussion on how the disaggregation of borders and staffing agencies as border agents affects political subjectivities of transnational workers. READ MORE

4. 3. Living Transnational Financial Lives: Exploring the Everyday Financial Practices, Networks and Subjectivities of Singaporeans in Sweden

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

   Author : Yong Hao Tan; [2022]
   Keywords : Financialisation of everyday life; transnational migrants; everyday financial practices; networks; subjectivities; Singapore; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the everyday financial lives of transnational migrants through the case of Singaporean migrants in Sweden. Drawing upon the scholarship on the financialisation of everyday life and transnational migration across economic and sociocultural geography, this thesis develops a conceptual framework that explores the everyday financial practices, networks and subjectivities that shape the lived financial realities of transnational migrants and how the complex and overlapping relationships between these different aspects of the financial everyday shapes the formation of the transnational financial subject. READ MORE

5. 4. Sunscreens Imploded : An eco-cultural exploration of enskinment, protection, and vulnerability

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Tobias Bharucha; [2022]
   Keywords : Sunscreen; SPF; Protection; Vulnerability; Care; Toxicity; Ecologies; Skin; Enskinment; ‘Endocrine Disruptors’; Skin Cancers; Racialised Beauty; Smell;

   Abstract : In this thesis I explore sunscreen use-practices, imaginaries, and material flows. I aim to understand how young people in the globally-immersed UK use sunscreens and how they makesense of them. READ MORE

6. 5. Resistance: Cultural Expression of Tea Plantation Workers in Bangladesh

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Faiham Ebna Sharif; [2022]
   Keywords : Tea; Cha; Chai; Garden; Estate; Plantation; Bagan; Baganiya; Culture; Alienation; Resistance; Worker; Labor; Tea Garden; Tea Garden Worker; Ethnicity; Human Rights; Labor Rights; Colonialism; Imperialism; Everyday life; Economy; Strategy; Tactic; Total Institution; Net of Authorities; Symbol;

   Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic study of culture, economy, everyday life, and resistance among ‘Baganiyas’ (workers) of a tea plantation in contemporary Bangladesh. The main goal of this thesis is to highlight the Baganiyas' everyday resistance to the systemic alienation of the plantation structure and to demonstrate how their actions of resistance served as symbolic representations of their community's culture. READ MORE