Essays about: "subjectivities"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 44 essays containing the word subjectivities.

1. 6. 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

3. 7. 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

4. 8. 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

5. 9. On Collapse

   University essay from Konstfack/Textil

   Author : Lea Constan; [2021]
   Keywords : weaving; feminism; quantum physics; post-colonialism; immigration; globalism; power structures; asymmetry; light; darkness; collapse; haptic;

   Abstract : This project is an active exploration of subjectivities through the medium of weaving. In a narrative illustrated with woven works, the emotional trajectory of this person of mixed cultural background through Swedish society is described. READ MORE

6. 10. Under the shade of rumour refutation : a critical analysis of #PoliceRefuteRumour campaign on Chinese social media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Mingyi Fang; [2021]
   Keywords : Civic Culture; Antagonism and Hegemony; Myth; Rumour; Rumour refutation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Rumour refutation is a series of campaigns that the Chinese authorities invest in combating 'the overflow' of network rumours, especially since 2017. These campaigns reflect the Chinese's knowledge of rumour as false and harmful. READ MORE