Essays about: "western me.."

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  1. 1. Crafting Textile Knowledges : A decolonial study of the Iku/Arhuaco material culture in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg (Världskulturmuseet)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Stefanía Castelblanco-Pérez; [2023]
    Keywords : material culture; indigenous heritage; object-based research; ethical stewardship; decoloniality; arhuaco; Iku; cultura material; patrimonio Indígena; investigación objetual; administración ética; decolonialidad; arhuaco; Iku;

    Abstract : The return of objects that belong to ethnographic collections to their places of origin is one of the topics of discussion that, despite not being new, has been gaining more and more relevance today. Taking the Iku indigenous craft collection in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg as a case study, I pursue to develop an object-based methodology that increases and deepens the understanding of the notion of ethical stewardship, while joining current debates on indigenous heritage and decoloniality. READ MORE

  3. 2. “I’m not like the other girls” : The phenomenology of affect: How is female self-expression affected by internalized misogyny?

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Jessica Rische; [2023]
    Keywords : Internalized Misogyny; Female Self-Expression; Affect Theory; Phenomenology; Participatory Action Research; Focus Group Discussion;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyze the affect of internalized misogyny on female self-expression. Guided by the research question “How is female self-expression affected by internalized misogyny?” a phenomenological framework of affect based on work by Sara Ahmed is applied. READ MORE

  4. 3. Non-dualism, natural science and what contemporary artistic practices have to say about it

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Jonathan Lystbæk Jørgensen; [2023]
    Keywords : Fine Art; HDK-Valand; Konst; Contemporary art; Bernardo Kastrup;

    Abstract : In this essay I intend to investigate what role contemporary art plays in the exploration of fundamental aspects of reality - and the importance of it. My premise for this text is that dealing with the fundamental aspects of reality has value - the way life is felt and how the world is perceived can be highly dependent on the fundamental understanding of reality. READ MORE

  5. 4. DIOSES EN LA TIERRA E EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DE LA MANCHA : VELÁZQUEZ’S SUBVERSION OF THE HABSBURG MYSTIQUE OF POWER

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Dan Hanqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Baroque; Siglo de Oro; Portraiture; Diego Velázquez; Philip IV; Naturalism; Subversion; Habsburg Iconography; Political Iconography; Vision; Visuality; Reception; Barroco; Siglo de Oro; retrato; Diego Velázquez; Felipe IV; naturalismo; subverción; Habsburgo; Austrias; Iconografía; Iconografía política; visión; visualidad; recepción;

    Abstract : Sometimes the concrete form and skill of a work of art stand in a non-arbitrary or non-contingent relationship with the social circumstances of its facture. I hypothesise that this form and such skill was used by Diego Velázquez for artistically, socially and politically subversive purposes. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Quiet Part Out Loud - Conspiracy theories and the rhetoric among activists in Sweden related to the Coronavirus pandemic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Felix Adolfsson; [2022]
    Keywords : anti-vaccination; Covid-19; digital environments; stigmatized knowledge; democracy; far-right ideology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with a set of organized activist movements during the harshest restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden. These groups protested both online and offline against imposed restrictions and vaccinations, displaying a critical attitude towards recommendations and restrictions such as by gathering in large crowds. READ MORE