Essays about: "subjectivities"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 44 essays containing the word subjectivities.

1. 21. Weight(,) trouble and intersectional subjectivities : Capturing children´s corporeal experiences with body normativities in Austrian schools

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Forum för genusvetenskap och jämställdhet

   Author : Claudia Koller; [2019]
   Keywords : Body weight; normativities; intersectionality; troubled subject positions; juvenile health promotion;

   Abstract : This study looks at school children´s intersectional experience with weight norms and tries to give insights on the issue of body normativities, from a feminist sport scientist point of view. Its purpose is to inform good practice in juvenile health education on the one hand and to contribute with intersectional feminist insights to the interdisciplinary dialogue on body weight and health on the other. READ MORE

3. 22. “Mommy meets Money”: Digitized forms of affective labor among ‘mommy’ bloggers and the biopolitical production of ‘life’ as a marketable commodity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

   Author : Erla Gjinishi; [2018]
   Keywords : affective labor; biopolitical production; everyday life; marketable commodities; virtual economy; reproductive labor; social factory; ‘mommy’ blogging; multitude; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study explores the ways in which digitized forms of affective labor among ‘mommy’ bloggers effectuate biopolitical production of ‘life’ as a marketable commodity. Situating the research in a context of a neo-liberal re-structuring of the global order and dissolving biopolitical state boundaries, this study captures the transformation of ‘life’ and its quotidian needs and capabilities into a terrain for commodification. READ MORE

4. 23. Constructing the ideal youth recreation leader : A Foucault inspired analysis

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande

   Author : Andreas Ruschkowski; [2018]
   Keywords : Youth recreation leaders; Foucault; discourse; subjectivity; government; ideals;

   Abstract : Youth recreation centres in Sweden are significant venues for youth to engage in meaningful activities, as a way to counteract increased segregation and social tension. The professionals promoting young people’s social inclusion and fostering positive personal development in this context, are youth recreation leaders. READ MORE

5. 24. Audience Engagement with Complex TV dramas : Posthuman Narratives and Human Identity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Salome Kobalava; [2017]
   Keywords : Complex Television Drama; Audiences; Posthumanism; Narrative; Identity; Subjectivity; Artificial Intelligence; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Through qualitative interviews with ten study participants, this research investigates connections between the theme of artificial intelligence on HBO’s Westworld, and issues of identities of its audience members. The thesis critically examines audience engagement with complex television dramas. READ MORE

6. 25. Creating Sellable Citizens : A Study of How Job Seekers Are Socialized as Labor Market Actors

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Karlsson; [2017]
   Keywords : unemployment; job seeking; employability; governmentality; subjectivity; foucault; consumption; arbetslöshet; arbetssökande; anställningsbarhet; arbetsförmedlingen; webbinarier;

   Abstract : On the flexible and insecure labor markets of today, it is increasingly considered an individual responsibility to find work and to become employable. With the purpose of understanding how individuals are socialized to the rapidly transforming labor markets, this thesis examines job seeking as an often neglected site for the reproduction of labor market subjectivities. READ MORE