The aim of this study is to analyse how female neopagan practitioners form their identities individually as well as collectively. Using Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory and Anthony Giddens’ descriptions ...

This essay examines the construction of Us and Them in Swedish author David Väyrynen's poetry collection Marken (2017). These two groups can basically be identified as rural/northern and urban/southern. My aim with this ...

The study examines five young people identity formations by how they construct a lesbian identity based on the existing cultural and social ideas about lesbianism in society today. The study is based on interviews and the ...

The purpose of this study is to explore queer lifelines and concepts of non-heteronormative sexuality, identity and (un)happiness. The material consists of nine qualitative interviews with lesbian-, bisexual- and ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the hosts of the radio show Sommar i P1 uses their choices of music to make identity. To be able to emphasise what is communicated as well as what is left out, the method ...

This study focuses on the punk scene in the late nineteen-seventies. The aim is to analyze how members of the first generation of punks in Gothenburg create their stories about how they experienced the time when the punk ...

This essay set out to investigate how consuming cosmetics can become a statement of ethics, by using The Body Shop brand as an example. Being keen users and make-up artists ourselves we asked: How do our informants use and ...

Cities are made out of complex networks of individuals, cultural phenomena, places and contesting discourses. This essay aims to nuance one of these cultural phenomena; toilet graffiti and try to determine which function(-s) ...

The purpose of this essay was to examine the packaging design´s communications related to the colloquially brand's symbolic capital and how they became meaningful through experience and perceptions that led to the ...

My main focus in this essay is to pinpoint current discourses within a section of the queer community regarding the use of language and terminology when describing gender, identity, sexuality and desire. In particular I ...