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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 ... -
Constructing Rural Identities – A Diverse Narrative
(2016-07-05)So far, rural people and communities have not received much consideration within the field of gender studies while urban individuals and their lifestyles have been normalised. I argue that the rural space inhabits a huge ... -
CONSTRUCTING SAFE SPACES The potential of performing feminist critical utopia analyzed through zine-making
(2019-10-10)Safe spaces are constructed to offer a space of acceptance to an otherwise marginalized or vulnerable group. This thesis explores the connections between safe spaces and feminist (critical) utopianism through their inherent ... -
Dancing in Postcolonial Spotlights The possibility to perceive postcolonial structures within the dance scenes in India Song and Beau Travail
(2020-11-11)This thesis studies the complex relationship between the concept of art cinema, dance performativity and postcolonial theories, with two dance scenes from India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975) and Beau Travail (Claire Denis, ... -
Den postmoderna blicken - Matts Leiderstams queera blick - synar konsthistorien, tar fram de dolda rutnäten, vänder fram målningars baksida och lyfter fram arkiven.
(2022-09-27)In this master thesis I investigate the art of Matts Leiderstam. My primary goal is to examine the Leiderstam gaze and its relation to its time. Artists during the postmodern era often have a radically different approach ... -
Det kritiska mellanrummet - En analys av essäfilm som reflekterande kunskapsform
(2022-10-05)We live in an audiovisual culture where film and moving images plays a central part of our daily lives. The film as a medium is approximately 130 years old, yet we are still discussing the same questions today as they ... -
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, and the Myth of ‘Myth’
(2022-07-04)This paper sets out to critically discuss and analyse both the scholarly and general implementation of the word ‘myth’ as designator of style, narrative, and cultural significance, within film studies and adjacent ... -
DIGITALA RUM OCH RUMSLIGA DIGITALISERINGAR - hur hemmet tar plats på Instagram
(2024-10-21)In a world obsessed with the visual our homes have gone viral. Through the frame of Instagram family members seems switched to furnitures and the so-called smartphone surely opened the door to new, digital places. Social ... -
Digitala spel i konstens namn? En undersökning av det fenomenologiska mötet med art games.
(2019-10-23)In this thesis, I have investigated how artistic and cultural values are being produced in art games. In my work I have analyzed four art games and these are That Dragon, Cancer, Papers Please, Gone Home and The Stanley ... -
Does he look like a bitch? a.k.a. She's got the look a.k.a. Get the picture? a.k.a. Back to the suture Identification and interpretation in Kill Bill
(2015-06-09)In my essay I examine how the identificatory process of a spectator watching a cult film is altered when the film in question has a female protagonist and a high level of self-reflexivity (and other typically post-modern ... -
Drawing resistance - Swedish cartoonists and their relation to politics, power and the art of making others laugh
(2016-09-05)This essay analyzes conversations between the author and three Swedish cartoonists concerning ideas of politics, art and comics. The cartoonists are Elin Lucassi, Amalia Alvarez and Emanuel Garnheim. The aim is to examine ... -
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 ... -
Embodied Migration: In the Context of Iranian Men in Sweden - Toward an Embodied Post/Transdisciplinary Paradigm
(2017-06-07)This thesis is an explorative research about Iranian post-migration masculine identity in Sweden. The aim is to identify and analyse the embodied factors that have affected the Iranian men’s post-migration identity formation. ... -
Estetisk närvaro - Filosofiska, biologiska och konstvetenskapliga perspektiv på den ordlösa upplevelsen av bildkonst
(2020-11-11)Estetisk närvaro - ett tillstånd av intensiv fokusering på och upptagenhet av ett estetiskt objekt, är ett vardagligt fenomen vars betydelse för upplevelse och tolkning av konst kan ha underskattats. Uppsatsen består av ... -
EUROPE 2020: TOWARDS A NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY? Neoliberal Dreams and Diffractive Awakenings
(2020-12-28)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the Europe 2020 strategy is of neoliberal nature and aims to adjust every aspect of life to be market-conforming. Furthermore, it examines if the target for an ... -
Exotic Dance and Other Stories of Transformations– An Ethnographic Study in Swedish Strip Clubs
(2015-09-09)The main question of this thesis is how in the social world of stripping the dominant order of symbolic values is renegotiated and exotic dancers undertake processes of transformation. The aim of the study is to look ... -
EXTREME, SPECTACULAR AND HORRIFIC A qualitative film analysis of affective strategies in extreme horror via Terrifier 2
(2023-12-20)During the year of 2022 the film Terrifier 2 was shown in theaters all over the western world. This film was not supported by any larger production companies, but was partly crowdfunded. The film combines elements from ... -
Fantasmatiska speglingar i fotografiet - Ett synliggörande av fantasmen i Lene Marie Fossens självporträtt
(2021-10-21)The self-portraits of the Norwegian photographer Lene Marie Fossen (1986-2019) strikes the beholder with a great force of pain and sorrow in their expressions. The cruel reality and visuality of the psychiatric illness ... -
“Female Migrant Housing Experiences” An in-depth intersectional analysis of housing experiences for female scholars from the global south living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
(2019-10-10)Living in Sweden is becoming far problematic for immigrants because of the fast-growing population without a correspondent increase in the construction of housing. The high demand of housing and its limited number of ... -
Feminist and Queer Noisemaking: An Exploration of Gender and Sexuality in Electronic Art Music
(2020-11-24)Men can be said to dominate the music industry, especially when it comes to composers and musicians who create experimental music and sounds which fall outside of mainstream music. Women and members of the LGBTQ+ community ...