Essays about: "urban stereotypes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words urban stereotypes.

  1. 1. Situated Accounts from Within a Stigmatized Area : An Ethnographic Study on Local Views and Experiences Relating to Urban Developments in Molenbeek, Brussels

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Emma van der Saag; [2023]
    Keywords : Territorial stigma; Ethnographic study; Urban planning; Thick descriptions; Feminist theory; Molenbeek; Territoriell stigma; Etnografisk studie; Stadsplanering; Tjocka beskrivningar; Feministisk teori; Molenbeek;

    Abstract : This study tried to counter the stigmatized narratives in Molenbeek and nuance the stigma bybringing to the forefront the experiences and views of the local inhabitants through storytellingand an ethnographic approach. I have interviewed both inhabitants of Molenbeek and a plannerfrom the municipality of Molenbeek to understand both the discourse of the inhabitants andthat of the planners at the municipal level about current urban development projects in andaround Molenbeek. READ MORE

  3. 2. Racist Police Practices, Mobilities, and the Production of Urban Space : Power, Resistance, and Subjectification in the City of Malmö

    University essay from

    Author : Elvira Grahn; [2023]
    Keywords : Racial profiling; racialization; racist police practices; geopolicing; space; mobility; power and resistance; subjectification; Rasprofilering; rasifiering; mobilitet; rasistiska polispraktiker;

    Abstract : This study aims to explore the relationship between racist police practices and the production of space in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Acknowledging the systemic inequalities inherent in Nordic welfarism and how past Swedish colonialist efforts inform such systems, it presupposes that racist police practices should be considered structural rather than dependent on individual actors. READ MORE

  4. 3. Challenges in women's access to higher education in Pakistan

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Saima Laiqat; [2022-11-25]
    Keywords : Higher Education; Women education in Pakistan; Barriers and Challenges to women education in Pakistan; Women access to higher education;

    Abstract : Aim: Women in Pakistan face many obstacles, challenges, and gender stereotypes in their educational journey. Therefore, the goal of this research is threefold: to examine the factors that female HE students identify as obstacles and hurdles they have had to overcome to establish themselves in HE; to examine what enables some women to overcome them and successfully establish themselves as HE students; and last to address what gender stereotypes female students in HE have encountered in their educational journey and how they have dealt with them. READ MORE

  5. 4. NEVER AGAIN THESSALONIKI – AUSCHWITZ : THE FIRST MEMORY WALK FOR THE JEWS OF SALONICA AND THE REACTIONS OF THE LOCAL PRESS. : A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) AND REFLECTION.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Georgia Gleoudi; [2018]
    Keywords : Jews; Thessaloniki; collective memory; national identity; Media; Orthodoxy; Never again; urban identity; Hellenization; social change; critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : The end of the Second World War found the city of Thessaloniki devastated by the loss of nearly its total Jewish population in the concentration camps of the Third Reich. A few survivals return to their city just to realize that their fortunes have been confiscated either by the local authorities or by their Christian neighbors. READ MORE

  6. 5. Landskapsarkitekten, konstnären och den kreativa processen : en beskrivning och analys av samarbetet mellan landskapsarkitekt och konstnär i arbetet med offentlig gestaltning

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

    Author : Hanna Fideli Fritzell; [2018]
    Keywords : arbetsprocess; gestaltningsprocess; landskapsarkitektur; offentlig gestaltning; offentlig konst; konstnär; statens konstråd; samverkansprojekt;

    Abstract : Det här arbetet sammanfattar ett urval faktorer i den gemensamma gestaltningsprocessen som är viktiga för att dialogen och den kreativa processen mellan landskapsarkitekt/arkitekt och konstnär ska nå ett önskvärt resultat. Arbetet inleds med en kort historik över de två yrkenas verksamhet i Sverige och redovisar sedan en litteraturstudie som berör vilka faktorer som påverkar den gemensamma gestaltningsprocessen och den ömsesidiga kommunikationen. READ MORE