Search for dissertations about: "sexual citizenship"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words sexual citizenship.

2. 1. A Walk on Istiklal Street : Dissident Sexual Geographies, Politics and Citizenship in Istanbul

   Author : Alp Biricik; Jeff Hearn; Brian Heaphy; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sexuality; generation; heteronormativity; sexual citizenship; tactic; strategy; power; internet; Istanbul; Turkey; Sexualitet; genreration; heteronormativitet; sexuellt medborgarskap; strategi; taktik; makt; internet; Istanbul; Turkiet;

   Abstract : Building upon ethnographic material and literature dating from the early 1970s until the 2010s, this thesis is about the production and transformation of dissident sexual geographies through the interplay of sexual politics and citizenship in Beyoğlu and Aksaray, two districts of Istanbul, Turkey. In particular, the interdisciplinary inquiry is composed in the form of a walk on Istiklal Street in Beyoğlu district, historically a central location for cruising activities, finding sexual communities and organising political events among LGBT circles. READ MORE

4. 2. Embodied Citizenship in the Making : Bolivian Urban Youth at the Crossroads of Social Hierarchies

   Author : Nika Rasmussen; Charlotta Widmark; Thaïs Machado-Borges; Andrew Canessa; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Youth; Social Hierarchies; Citizenship; Everyday Life; Intersectionality; Political Practices; Nationhood; Bolivia; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses the body as a nexus for playing out power relations and feelings of belonging. Based upon twelve months of fieldwork amongst young urban people living in La Paz and El Alto, it examines the connections between bodily conceptions, social hierarchies and societal inclusions. READ MORE

5. 3. Information, identitet, medborgarskap : unga kvinnor berättar om val av preventivmedel

   Author : Johanna Rivano Eckerdal; digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap Avdelningen för ABM; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Library and Information Studies; Democracy; Credibility; Identity; Contraceptives; Information Literacy;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to study how young women’s information literacies are enacted in practices related to evaluation and use of information sources before choosing a contraceptive and thereby to discuss how these practices relate to the young women’s sexual and civic identities. A sociocultural perspective, which brings with it a view on information literacy as contingent and enacted in practices, is adopted. READ MORE

6. 4. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua

   Author : Cecilia Gustafsson; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Mark Rosenberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; health; health care; migration-health nexus; Nicaragua; remittances; mobile livelihoods; translocal geographies; vulnerability; suffering; coping; undocumentedness; mixed-methods; HDSS; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. READ MORE

7. 5. Otherness and disease in Reunion : The politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 chikungunya epidemic

   Author : Karine Aasgaard Jansen; Tove Ingebjørg Fjell; Astrid Blystad; Line Alice Ytrehus; Pamila Gupta; University of Bergen; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : In this dissertation I investigate how decolonisation through inclusion instead of independence has affected processes of othering, and reactions to being othered. By othering I mean discursive colonial practices described by post-colonial theories, in which racial and cultural difference is produced as inferior vis-à-vis the “superior” West. READ MORE