Search for dissertations about: "embodied positions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words embodied positions.

  2. 1. Queer Community through Photographic Acts. Three Entrances to an Artistic Research Project Approaching LGBTQIA Russia

    Author : Annica Karlsson Rixon; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; queer community; photographic acts; fotografisk gestaltning; photography; feminist theory; queer theory; community; embodied positions; movement; performativity; intersectionality; situated knowledge; in-between; insider; outsider; Russian LGBTQIA; artistic research; Trinh T. Minh-ha;

    Abstract : This compilation thesis is made within the field of fotografisk gestaltning (photography) and is a study of the potential for queer community to emerge through photographic acts. It consists of two artworks that have been presented in a series of exhibitions, published texts, workshops, and lectures. READ MORE

  4. 2. Modeling the Role of Energy Management in Embodied Cognition

    Author : Alberto Montebelli; Tom Ziemke; Robert Lowe; Högskolan i Skövde; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Technology; Teknik;

    Abstract : The quest for adaptive and autonomous robots, flexible enough to smoothly comply with unstructured environments and operate in close interaction with humans, seems to require a deep rethinking of classical engineering methods. The adaptivity of natural organisms, whose cognitive capacities are rooted in their biological organization, is an obvious source of inspiration. READ MORE

  5. 3. Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers : A Sudy of the Relational Self in Four Life Stories

    Author : Martin Shaw; David Mayall; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; life story; relationality; habitus; narration; Gypsy; Traveller; United Kingdom and Northern Ireland; embodied subjectivity; Post- and internal colonialisms; violence s ; self-domination; domination; English language; Engelska språket;

    Abstract : To say that Gypsy and/or Traveller and/or Romany life stories have existed on the periphery of literary studies can be considered an understatement. In this study of the relational self, Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers, examines the discursive and structural complexities involved in the practices of writing and speaking in the production process and narrative trajectories of the life stories of Gordon Sylvester Boswell (1970), Nan Joyce (1985), Jimmy Stockins (2000), and Jess Smith (2002 and 2003). READ MORE

  6. 4. Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past

    Author : Marie-Louise Holm; Margrit Shildrick; Jens Rydström; Ailbhe Smyth; Ellen Feder; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intersex; trans; autobiography; history; embodiment; selfhood; archives; Denmark; medico-legal contexts; psychiatry; rearticulation; liveability; lived experience; ethics; queer theory; postmodern; dialogical narrative analysis; micro-genealogical analysis; Danish Ministry of Justice; Danish Medico-Legal Council; intersex; trans; självbiografi; historia; förkroppsligande; subjektivitet; arkiv; Danmark; medicinsk-etiska sammanhang; psykiatri; omartikulation; levbarhet; livshistorier; etik; queerteori; postmodern; dialogisk berättande analys; mikrogenealogisk analys; Danska justitiedepartementet; Danska Medicinsk-etiska rådet;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. READ MORE

  7. 5. Education for sustainable food consumption in home and consumer studies : Lärande för hållbar matkonsumtion i hem- och konsumentkunskap

    Author : Emmalee Gisslevik; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Ekologiska livsmedel; Utbildning; Hem- och konsumentkunskap; Grundskolan; Läroplaner; Hållbar utveckling; Natural foods; Curricula; Education; Education; Elementary; Elementary schools; Home economics; Sustainable development; Education for sustainable development; Sustainable consumption; Sustainable food consumption; Compulsory school; Food;

    Abstract : Education as a means to enable sustainable food consumption has gained increasing recognition as a vital means to decrease current burdens upon both natural resources and human health. In response, the Swedish compulsory school subject of home and consumer studies, which positions education about food as core content, has been revised to incorporate in its national syllabus a perspective of sustainable development since 2011. READ MORE