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    Crip is hip - En intervjustudie om funktionsvarierades aktivism och motståndsstrategier i Göteborg
    (2015-03-04) Alexandersson, AnnaSofia; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    During the last two years Gothenburg has become a central point in Sweden for activists in the area of disability. The essay explores which strategies that activist uses in purpose to pay attention to and criticize the Normate. By doing so, five crip activists have been interviewed about their experiences and feelings about how they manage to stand up against different types of power relations. The activists describe how they develop different strategies to change their identity positions and take control over themselves. The essay intends to contribute with a crip theoretic view in combination with material feminisms and resistance theory. The conclusions of the essay shows that the normate is incorporated in both social and material matter and how the activist’s uses the strategy Critical Disability to negotiate their identity position. It also concludes that the society is structured by the expectations of the category abel-bodieness. Meaning of language and its contribute to the activists resistance strategies are also central in the essay.
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    Drawing resistance - Swedish cartoonists and their relation to politics, power and the art of making others laugh
    (2016-09-05) Karlsen, Andrea; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    This essay analyzes conversations between the author and three Swedish cartoonists concerning ideas of politics, art and comics. The cartoonists are Elin Lucassi, Amalia Alvarez and Emanuel Garnheim. The aim is to examine how political cartoons can be constructed within a frame of feminist and political activism. Do the cartoonists view cartoons as a method for political change and in which way is this idea then formulated with the cartoonists? What ideas are being negotiated within the discourse of cartoons concerning its relationship to art as activism? What forms of feminist resistances can laughter create in a political struggle that is presented through cartoons? With discourse theory, feminist theory and political philosophy, some answers to these questions are searched for. The result shows that they all considers themselves as acting within an activism framework and that they do so by drawing cartoons concerning certain issues. Humor seems to act as a special ingredient when conveying difficult political matters and the cartoonists relationship to notions of art is a complicated one. And so, the result indicates an intricate affair concerning the cartoonist own ideas around their artistic and activistic practices.