Department of Cultural Sciences / Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper: Recent submissions
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Collective Subjectivity in Feminist Activism Against Femicide in Turkey. Collective Subjectivity as an Intersectional Strategy in the Struggle Against Femicide in Turkey
(2019-07-01)In Turkey, the data and legal regulations regarding femicide are inadequate. This research suggests that struggle against femicide which adopts an intersectional approach mobilizes women of different identities and ... -
Acid Realities. How Science Enacts the Psychedelic Experience
(2019-07-01)The present work has explored how the psychedelic experience is discursively reproduced in contemporary psychological- and neuroscientific research. In focus was scientific articles detailing experimental human studies ... -
Med kulturen som (värdeskapande) hyresgäst. En etnografisk studie om Göteborgs Stads arbete med kultur, lokaler och stadsplanering
(2019-07-01)Som en följd av Göteborgs stadsomvandlingsprojekt Älvstaden försvinner många av de billiga lokalerna som stadens kulturutövare är i behov av för att utöva sin konst. Samtidigt som kulturens materiella infrastruktur försvagas ... -
”Du gapar så högt att jag försvinner!”. Smartphones och hörlurar i Göteborgs kollektivtrafik
(2019-06-11)In this thesis the aim is to understand more about the effect that smartphones and headphones have on our social life in our everyday commute in the Swedish city Gothenburg. Through ethnographic observations and seven ... -
Konstförstörelsens olika uttryck: En begreppsanalytisk studie av ikonoklastisk konstdiskurs
(2019-06-04)This essay examines the stigmatization of contemporary iconoclastic discourse and the feasibility of creating a new classification of iconoclastic deeds. Based on Reinhart Koselleck’s concept analysis and a discourse ... -
I väntan på ett narrativ som gryr: En analys av kulturens plats inför Norra Masthuggets omvandling
(2019-06-03)Gothenburg is a city in that is currently undergoing large changes and in some aspects a significant rebranding. In Norra Masthugget, a hub for cultural industries and workers in creative fields, the city plans to erect a ... -
SD-Kvinnor & jämställdhetsparadoxen – en kvalitativ analys av ’Kvinnan’ i nationens tjänst
(2019-06-03)This thesis examines how the women’s association of the Swedish Democrats, SD-Kvinnor define the concept of the ‘Woman’ and use womanhood as a basis for their nationalistic political agenda. The thesis also examines if ... -
Det går inte att skriva rasism utan ras - en uppsats om separatistiska rum, rasifiering, agens, makt och vithetsnormer
(2019-05-29)The essay examines the purpose of separatist movements for People of colour (POC). The essay found that POC get positioned differently inside and outside of the separatist room through everyday social practises. Where POC ... -
Kvinnor inom konst och feminism: En studie i feministisk symbolik inom nutidskonsten
(2019-05-29)In this paper we have explored the symbolic meanings of feminist art. We have done this by using a semiotic and discourse analysis of ten artworks. The artworks we have chosen to analyze all have some sort of feminist ... -
“It’s not a phase, Mom!!!". Om identitetsskapande inom fankultur
(2019-05-20)In this essay, we examine what it means to be a fan. We look at the way different products and discourses create identity within both fan culture and fandoms. We have chosen to focus on three famous fandoms among youth ... -
Smink som ställningstagande. En uppsats om etisk konsumtion med exemplet The Body Shop
(2019-05-20)This essay set out to investigate how consuming cosmetics can become a statement of ethics, by using The Body Shop brand as an example. Being keen users and make-up artists ourselves we asked: How do our informants use and ... -
”Varför ska jag gå runt och vänta?” En normkritisk intervjustudie med frivilligt ensamstående mammor
(2019-05-16)The purpose of this study is to examine how single mothers by choice motivate their family form and experience norms surrounding family and motherhood. In interviews with six women who became mothers through assisted ... -
Att bygga sin omgivning - Östersunds identitetsskapande och självpresentation
(2019-05-16)The purpose of this study is to give the reader an insight into the history of Östersund and how the municipality works with urban planning and development in relation to its history, as well as democracy and welfare. Our ... -
En plats för alla? Om kulturinstitutioners roll i stadsutvecklingsprocesser i Kortedala och Gamlestaden, med biblioteken i centrum
(2019-05-15)This study explores gentrification as a concept from an intersectional and cultural perspective. Cultural institutions are at the center of this study. Kortedala library and Världslitteraturhuset (The world literature ... -
“No big boobs? I’m out”. En kvalitativ studie av mäns och kvinnors bemötande på streamingplattformen Twitch.tv
(2019-05-10)The internet has expanded greatly, revolutionising almost every aspect of communication and creating so far unseen interactions and social networks. It’s a space where people can connect, get access to otherwise unseen ... -
Artificiellt liv, kroppslighet och posthumanism i populärkultur
(2019-05-07)In this essay I will discuss posthumanism and how we become humans. Through analyzing two science fiction works, one movie and one short story, I will discuss what it means to be human and how the male liberal subject of ... -
”Sanningen” om den skrivande kvinnan. Makt och sanningsetablerande i den svenska 1930-talspressen
(2019-05-06)This essay intends to study how the established truths in society about female writers in the swedish 1930’s were created by the members of the press, and how the different truths interacted contextually. The portraying ... -
PLUGGING IN TO QUEER IN GOTHENBURG. An Emotion and Power-Sensitive In-depth Group Study on Being Queer in Gothenburg
(2019-03-26)This study aims to extend the existing knowledge of how different queer persons experience being queer in Gothenburg and in extension, attend to emotions and power relations in the process of knowledge production. The study ... -
Att värna demokratin. Kommunala tjänstepersoners konstruktioner av demokrati, rättigheter och medborgarskap i det kommunala arbetet med återvändare och islamistisk våldsbejakande extremism
(2019-03-21)This thesis investigates how the problem with so called returnees (återvändare) and violent extremism (våldsbejakande extremism) is constructed in the municipal work with and against the same in Sweden, using Carol Bacchi’s ... -
En del av Sápmi - Makt och motstånd i Anders Sunnas målning Indigenous love
(2019-02-25)This essay has it’s outset in the painting Indigenous love by Anders Sunna, to further investigate how the postcolonial structures are expressed and in which way power and resistance manifests in the artwork. It also ...