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Det diskursiva skapandet av en nation och en främling. En kritisk diskursanalys av hur Lifos rapport diskursivt skapar bilden av den somaliska kvinnan och en svensk jämställdhet.
(2016-04-05)In this essay I perform a critical discourse analysis of a report on the situation of Somali women by Lifos, the Swedish Migration Boards Country of Origin Information system. With postcolonial feminist theory and ... -
Alliera de Alienerade - En studie om den kvinnofierade hårfria kroppens alienation och fetischism i den maktrådande utomhusreklamen.
(2016-04-05)Studiens syfte är att föra en diskussion kring hur den kvinnofierade kroppen görs (hårfri) i utomhusreklam, samt hur och vilka maktrelationer som är delaktiga. Denna diskussion sker i form av en diskursanalys med flera ... -
Att känna med varandra i kampen mot speciesism. En analys av vad känslor gör utifrån en diffraktiv förståelse av kroppar.
(2016-04-05)This essay is a qualitative study of what feelings do based on empirical material gathered through focus groups with vegans and vegetarians. The aim is to explore what feelings do with us based on the phenomenologically ... -
WOMEN’S RESISTANCE THROUGH TESTIMONY – A STUDY OF SURVIVORS’ TALES FROM THE HOLOCAUST
(2016-02-19)This thesis analyses Jewish women Holocaust survivor’s testimonies. The purpose is to investigate what events the women tell of, how they tell of the choice and act of giving testimony, and to analyse whether resistance ... -
FEMTIO NYANSER AV KÖNSIDENTIET - En undersökning av makt och könsidentitet i filmen ”Fifty Shades of Grey”
(2016-02-19)In this thesis we examine gender identity and power asymmetry in negotiation in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. For the purpose of this study we ask these following questions: · Which power asymmetries and gender identities ... -
VANDRING I SKRÄCKENS TECKEN - En semiotisk analys av Jack the Ripper-vandringar
(2016-02-19)The aim of this essay is to examine the communication of two different websites which belongs to two different companies that offers Jack the Ripper walking tours. These tours are a kind of horror walk that takes place in ... -
En egen väg - Den kvinnliga emancipationsprocessen under 1880-talet synliggjord i tre konstverk
(2015-12-09)This essay examines the emancipation of the 1880´s women in Scandinavia art. The three paintings in focus all have in common that they are portraits of Swedish female painters who lived in Paris at some point in the 1880´s. ... -
ATT MÅLA TILL VARJE PRIS - Annemirl Bauers konstnärskap i 1980-talets DDR
(2015-11-12)This thesis explores the life and work of a female artist in the GDR in the 1980s. Annemirl Bauer was born 1939 and got her Art education in the GDR. The special circumstances for artists in the socialist republic are ... -
Formkanon i förändring - från antiken till postmodernismen
(2015-11-12)In western cultural circles, concepts such as balance, harmony and beauty have always played a central part in how the world is interpreted. These fall under the designation form canons and have varied from antiquity to ... -
“I feel more like a superhero” - A Narrative Analysis of Victimization and Agency in Relation to Experiences of Sexual Assaults
(2015-10-01)Rape is in many contexts considered being the worst thing that can ever happen to a person and is supposed to result in a life-long trauma. But there is a gap between those who are constructing this discourse and the ... -
"Look at her butt!" - Ironi som motståndsstrategi
(2015-09-22)The aim of this thesis is to examine the ways in which signs in Nicki Minaj's video for Anaconda can connote gender, race and class. By employing semiotic methods as well as theories on respectability this study analyzes ... -
Vem äger dansen? En intervjustudie om attityder kring kulturell appropriering och intersektionell feminism inom Tribal fusion och ATS
(2015-09-22)Through interviews with three amateur Tribal Fusion and ATS belly dancers, this thesis explores attitudes concerning ownership of the dance, the importance of its cultural background and its feminist potential. ... -
Mångfald, det heliga mantrat - kristiska perspektiv på mångfaldsdiskursen inom Sveriges Television
(2015-09-22)This thesis focuses on the narratives and descriptions of diversity in the broadcasting company, Sveriges Television. The purpose is to study how the discourse of diversity manifests itself and how it is constituted, in ... -
"Ge mig tiaran" - En studie om skönhetsidealet för barn i Toddlers and Tiaras
(2015-09-22)Vi lever i ett kapitalistiskt samhälle där ideal och skönhet konsumeras symboliskt för att man skall framställa sig själv som en viss typ av människa. Denna uppsats har som syfte att analysera reality serien Toddlers and ... -
Sátántangó och Passion: varaktighet i realistisk och allegorisk gestaltning
(2015-09-22)This essay proposes and examines a coalition between the Deleuzian notion of time-images and two different cinematographic traits: realism and symbolic or allegoric content. The material in question are the films by directors ... -
Toleranshuvan Reloaded - En semiotisk och diskursiv analys av ett antagonistisk performanceverk
(2015-09-22)This study consists of a semiotic and discursive analysis of the performance piece Toleranshuvan Reloaded, created by the Swedish theater group Institutet in collaboration with the two Romanian beggars Lăcătus Luca Ioan ... -
Ge mig ett wham! Sujetten som reproduktionsformel och ceremoniell förvaltare av auran i det minimalistiska filmnarrativet “All is Lost”
(2015-09-22)In this essay, I have studied the narrative structure of the minimalistic adventure film All is Lost. The aim of this study has been to show a reproductive discrepancy between the narrative structure and the narrative ... -
Skogens alla värden - En diskursanalytisk studie av Naturskyddsföreningens natursyn och miljöetik
(2015-09-22)This Bachelor thesis examines a Swedish environmental organization, Naturskyddsföreningen, and its view on nature. Particularly the organizations view on the forest is in focus. This is done through discourse analysis of ... -
Kön i tid och rymd - En undersökning av cyborgkroppar i Doctor Who
(2015-09-22)In this essay I will examine the relation between gender and qualities that are required for attaining humanity. The essay revolves around the concept of cyborg as a part cybernetic, part biological creature. From a pop ... -
Whatever happens, I will never sell the mountains - A reparative analysis of the temporal, political, emotional and intellectual aspects of crafting
(2015-09-09)The aim of this thesis is to investigate time and the values connected to different uses of time. What use is legitimate, and what is seen as a waste of time? I will argue that a general notion of time as ‘bad’ or ‘useless’ ...