Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper: Recent submissions
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De kommer applådera ändå - En etnologisk undersökning av paraidrotten och dess förutsättningar i en föränderlig tid
(2022-12-19)This thesis examines the Swedish para sport movement of today, with a focus on elite athletes and the ongoing inclusion work done by the Swedish sport movement. The questions asked are how the athletes came into contact ... -
T HE GENDER EQUALITY CHARADE A Critical Perspective on the Adoption and Implementation of 40/60 Gender Quota in Malawi
(2022-11-02)While gender quotas have been widely adopted by countries around the world as an affirmative action to enhance women’s participation and representation in politics and other public spheres, the impact of the phenomenon ... -
To a Gender Equal Policy Plan and Beyond - Breaking the binary in gender policy making
(2022-10-28)The main aim of this pilot research is to write a set of recommendations aimed at guiding international organisations in making gender equality policy plans following a gender non-binary perspective. The definitions of ... -
An Ace Theory of Relationships: Asexuality and Narratives of Relationship Norms
(2022-10-17)Asexuality studies is an emergent transdisciplinary field with many gaps to fill. This thesis aims to address asexual individuals’ own stories and perspectives on relationships and the norms that surround them. Utilizing ... -
PREKÄRA PIONJÄRER - En studie om nyetablerade entreprenörers roll i omvandlingen av Gamlestaden
(2022-10-12)In urban research into gentrification there has been a long schism between two perspectives: researchers who choose to look at the economic system that drives the fall and rise of prices in the city, and researchers who ... -
Det kritiska mellanrummet - En analys av essäfilm som reflekterande kunskapsform
(2022-10-05)We live in an audiovisual culture where film and moving images plays a central part of our daily lives. The film as a medium is approximately 130 years old, yet we are still discussing the same questions today as they ... -
Makt, minnen och motstånd - En kulturvetenskaplig studie av Göteborgs första hbtqi+monument
(2022-10-03)In the year 2023 Gothenburg will erect a monument commemorating the city's struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. In the light of recent years toppling and destruction of colonial, patriarchal and hierarchical monuments, this paper ... -
Den postmoderna blicken - Matts Leiderstams queera blick - synar konsthistorien, tar fram de dolda rutnäten, vänder fram målningars baksida och lyfter fram arkiven.
(2022-09-27)In this master thesis I investigate the art of Matts Leiderstam. My primary goal is to examine the Leiderstam gaze and its relation to its time. Artists during the postmodern era often have a radically different approach ... -
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, and the Myth of ‘Myth’
(2022-07-04)This paper sets out to critically discuss and analyse both the scholarly and general implementation of the word ‘myth’ as designator of style, narrative, and cultural significance, within film studies and adjacent ... -
Inblick i en diaspora - en kvalitativ intervjustudie med greker i Sverige
(2022-04-05)This thesis examines through a study of interviews how Greek culture is understood through people living in Sweden as a part of a diaspora outside of the country Greece. How do they construct a Greek identity and in ... -
Från skolflicka till ung kvinna på 1960-talet. Återberättade minnen från Örebro.
(2022-03-16)The norm for Swedish women’s occupations changed in the 1960s. This study is based on interviews with women who are now in their sixties. When they started school in the year 1960, Swedish women were expected to be housewives. ... -
Atmosfärsskapande bildstrategier i Zaras e-handel
(2022-03-16)Fokus för denna uppsats är att studera hur Zara arbetar i sin svenska e-handel för att skapa atmosfär och upplevelse av materialitet genom bild för att väcka emotionellt engagemang. Mitt metodiska ramverk består av två ... -
Won't Somebody Think of the Children-A Critical Analysis of the Swedish National Guidelines for Treatment of Young People with Gender Dysphoria
(2022-02-15)This thesis critically analyses Sweden’s National Guidelines for Treatment of Young People with Gender Dysphoria, with the aim of providing recommendations for amending the guidelines to provide better access to gender ... -
BASED, REDPILLED, AND FPBP. Examining identification through discursive/affective practices on 4chan/pol/
(2022-02-08)In a political landscape increasingly more influenced by far-right populism, the potential for political projects aiming to expand democracy is challenged. With the internet becoming an important arena for political ... -
ATT VARA VERKLIGHETENS TOLK - Estetik, politik och gestaltningen i dokumentär scenkonst
(2021-11-17)The 2013 Culture Programme for Gothenburg City together with Sweden’s national cultural policy objectives shows grand expectations on art and culture to contribute to growth, social progress, and democracy. Simultaneously, ... -
Fantasmatiska speglingar i fotografiet - Ett synliggörande av fantasmen i Lene Marie Fossens självporträtt
(2021-10-21)The self-portraits of the Norwegian photographer Lene Marie Fossen (1986-2019) strikes the beholder with a great force of pain and sorrow in their expressions. The cruel reality and visuality of the psychiatric illness ... -
PRECARIZATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - An ethnographic study of the working and living conditions of early non-institutional performing arts groups in Gothenburg
(2021-10-21)In Swedish theatre history, the period 1965–2000 is seen as a time of emergency and establishment of the non-institutional performing arts field and is referred to as the “expansion period”. The performing arts’ field ... -
EUROPE 2020: TOWARDS A NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY? Neoliberal Dreams and Diffractive Awakenings
(2020-12-28)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the Europe 2020 strategy is of neoliberal nature and aims to adjust every aspect of life to be market-conforming. Furthermore, it examines if the target for an ... -
Intra-aktiva maskiner. En undersökning av Carsten Höllers installationer ur ett posthumanistiskt perspektiv.
(2020-12-14)Using Karen Barads posthumanist agential realism as its main theoretical framework, this thesis examines space, body, time and the “interactive spectator” in their roles as participating actors for the interactive experience ... -
TO PERFORM, OR NOT TO PERFORM? A queer reading of feminist theatre performances in Istanbul
(2020-11-30)Feminist theatre, I opine, is a tremendously valuable tool that could help individuals to gaze politically at their own lives. This thesis is compiled by an exploratory research into the theatrical stage of Istanbul ...