Search for dissertations about: "paradoxical spaces"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words paradoxical spaces.

  2. 1. Where Gendered Spaces Bend : The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos

    Author : Anna-Klara Lindeborg; Aida Aragao - Lagergren; Susanne Stenbacka; Jonathan Rigg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Laos; LuangNamtha; rubber; gender; HatNyao; everyday life; bend; transitions; paradoxical spaces; intersectionality; ethnography; Hmong; phenomenon; gender contract; intersectionality; border-region; division of labour; China; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi; Geography;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. READ MORE

  4. 2. Do I look white? : Creating community in online safe spaces for racialized youth

    Author : Fanny Pérez Aronsson; Rickard Jonsson; Tommaso M. Milani; Ann Phoenix; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; online ethnography; safe spaces; racialized youth; coloniality; narrative; storytelling; small stories; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines identity performances amongst racialized youth in online ‘safe spaces’. Using a netnography-inspired approach to study communities online, the study employs decolonial and narrative theories to analyse identity performances through everyday interaction. READ MORE

  5. 3. Greeting the visitor : A contextualising study of fauces-mosaics in Pompeii

    Author : Fanny Kärfve; Pompeji - en uppdatering-lup-obsolete-HT_760; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pompeii; mosaics; fauces; entrances; atrium-houses; Interior decoration; display; emulation; protection; liminal spaces; mortar-floors;

    Abstract : The focus for this study is the collection of mosaic-floors that adorn the entrances, fauces, to atrium-houses around Pompeii. The aim is to further our understanding of the Roman view of transitional spaces, in this case the private house-entrance between the inside and the outside world. READ MORE

  6. 4. Infrafaces: Essays on the Artistic Interaction

    Author : Marco Muñoz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interaction; artistic research; digital art; infrafaces; interface; paradoxes; art and technology;

    Abstract : The essays collected in this dissertation introduce a new concept in the field of interactive art: the concept of infrafaces. This thesis shows how a new zone is discovered when two or more elements connect. READ MORE

  7. 5. Media and the refugee camp : The historical making of space, time, and politics in the modern refugee regime

    Author : Philipp Seuferling; Heike Graf; Anne Kaun; Staffan Ericson; Myria Georgiou; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; refugee camp; media practices; media technology; refugee regime; forced migration; Germany; media history; heterotopia; space; archive; media infrastructure; memory; witnessing; resistance; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores media practices in and of refugee camps. In the wake of forced migration becoming ever more digitized both in its experiences and its governance, this thesis historicizes media practices in refugee camps as a space of the refugee regime. READ MORE