Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper: Recent submissions
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Representation and Stereotyping in Board Games. A Study of How Gender, Race, Sexuality, Ability and Age Are Portrayed in Strategic Board Games
(2019-07-08)The purpose of this investigation is to see if contemporary strategic board games maintain a stereotypical representation of different societal groups. The main objectives are to see to what extent different social groups ... -
What's the Problem with Gender Inequality? Poststructural Policy Analysis of Gender Equality Policies from County Administrative Boards in Sweden 2018-2020
(2019-07-02)The purpose of this thesis is to do a poststructural analysis of gender equality policies from four county administration boards in Sweden. The thesis aims to examine how the policies construct the problem with gender ... -
Problems of Positioning. A qualitative study of narratives in a debate
(2019-07-02)This thesis aims to explore how positions of oneself and others are constructed in a debate, how these positions also construct the debate, and how this could have performative effects on the reader. The particular debate ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Ärkeängeln Mikael: En historiografisk undersökning av svensk medeltida träskulptur
(2018-11-12)This essay is an investigation of medieval woodsculptures picturing S.t Michael from 1200-1275, today preserved in Swedish churches and museums. No uniform research have been made of solely the archangel Michael as a ... -
Upplagt för feminism: En etnografisk studie av stickningens kvinnogemenskap och feministiska strävanden
(2018-10-05)This thesis examines the relation between knitting, femininity and feminism within the knitting movement organized through social media. The main material used in this study is interview transcriptions. In total, twelve ... -
Hon som förtjänar tilltro: en diskursanalytisk studie av domstolsväsendets hantering av våldtäktsmål
(2018-10-03)Rätten till likhet inför lagen är en essentiell del av det demokratiska samhället. Utifrån förståelsen för domstolsväsendet som en konstituerande och maktbärande aktör har uppsatsen för syfte att undersöka den möjliga ... -
Women’s experiences of gender-based barriers and stereotypes in bodybuilding as a masculine sport in Poland
(2018-06-27)The aim of this thesis is to study gender-based barriers and stereotypes that influence women in masculine sports taking bodybuilding as an example and analyzing four interviews by using a feminism perspective and ... -
LESSONS FROM ROMA FEMINISM IN EUROPE Digital Storytelling Projects with Roma Women Activists from Romania, Spain and Sweden
(2018-06-20)This multi-sited ethnographic research explores Roma feminism through the stories of Roma women activists participating in Digital Storytelling projects in Romania, Spain and Sweden. Drawing from relevant feminist theory ... -
En undersökning av Anselm Kiefers kulturella kapital
(2018-06-20)Title: An investigation of Anselm Kiefer cultural capital The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of cultural capital from the definition created by Pierre Bourdieu, and how this concept can be related to the ... -
Elli Hembergs gränsöverskridande skapande. En undersökning av hennes två- och tredimensionella verk.
(2018-06-20)In this thesis, I examine Elli Hemberg's experimental loyalty, focusing on the transition from two-dimensionality to three-dimensionality. A central concept is cross-boundary, that is, when the artist crosses dividing ... -
ALLYSHIP AMONG COMMUNITIES Narratives from the Queer Community and the Roller Derby Community
(2018-06-20)This thesis investigated narratives of allyship within and between the queer community and the roller derby community. The thesis is an ethnographic interview study and through six interviews with people of the communities ... -
WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN AFGHANISTAN Economic Empowerment and International Agencies
(2018-06-20)Purpose:This thesis examines the level of effectiveness of the Women Economic Empowerment Projects in Afghanistan in a certain period, especially from 2001 onward, and in accordance to the availability of the required data. ... -
The Fields of Trans* Necropolitics: Trans Women‟s Narratives On the Vulnerabilities of Trans Death, Bereavement, Posthumous Challenges and Activism in Turkey
(2017-11-09)This study aims to bring forward the phenomenon of trans death, underscoring the challenges that trans women in İstanbul experience, endure and confront during the posthumous scenes of autopsy, funeral and burial. Departing ... -
Making (a) difference in games Feminist game creation and other interferences with the Swedish video game industry’s reproduction of gendered sameness
(2017-09-07)Grounded in my passion for video games and motivated by my experiences of often feeling like not belonging in the stories told in games, this qualitative study investigates challenges and strategies for diversity in games ... -
Sägen som modell till handling. Mannen, graven och sägnen: En studie om Falks grav
(2017-06-27)In the woods of Hökensås, in the province of Västergötland, lies a grave. The grave belongs to Jonas Falk who was executed in the year 1855 for robbery and manslaughter. Falk was buried in unbridled soil but some time after ...