Browsing Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper by Title
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Making (a) difference in games Feminist game creation and other interferences with the Swedish video game industry’s reproduction of gendered sameness
(2017-09-07)Grounded in my passion for video games and motivated by my experiences of often feeling like not belonging in the stories told in games, this qualitative study investigates challenges and strategies for diversity in games ... -
Making feminist arguments against borders and regulated migration
(2015-09-09)This thesis is about theoretical critiques and practical resistance to regulated migration specifically and borders more generally. My aim is to explore how we can make strong arguments and strategies against borders and ... -
Makt, minnen och motstånd - En kulturvetenskaplig studie av Göteborgs första hbtqi+monument
(2022-10-03)In the year 2023 Gothenburg will erect a monument commemorating the city's struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. In the light of recent years toppling and destruction of colonial, patriarchal and hierarchical monuments, this paper ... -
Marginaler i rörelse: Materialitet och agens i skärningspunkten mellan transnationell feminism, globalisering och kulturell hybriditet
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores how three contemporary Mexican women artists, Teresa Margolles, Julieta Aranda, and Minerva Cuevas navigate and critically engage with the global art world through a postcolonial and transnational ... -
MED DENNA VISDOM BÖRJAR VI DENNA LÅT. Om mellansnackets diskursiva konstruktion av den svenska folkmusikgenren
(2023-10-04)”With this knowledge we begin this tune” – Stage talk as the discursive construction of Swedish folk music. Stage talk – i.e. the musicians’ talk on stage during concerts – is a given in an array of musical genres, although ... -
MED EN SCHYSST SERIESTAD KAN MAN SLÅ HELA VÄRLDEN MED HÄPNAD OM SERIESTADEN MALMÖ, DESS AKTÖRER OCH SERIENÄTVERK
(2017-06-27)This master thesis in ethnology explores the creative actors and networks in Seriestaden Malmö (Comic City Malmö). A concept created by comic writer, comic scholar and critic Gunnar Krantz in 1999, but now a part of the ... -
Med kulturen som (värdeskapande) hyresgäst. En etnografisk studie om Göteborgs Stads arbete med kultur, lokaler och stadsplanering
(2019-07-01)Som en följd av Göteborgs stadsomvandlingsprojekt Älvstaden försvinner många av de billiga lokalerna som stadens kulturutövare är i behov av för att utöva sin konst. Samtidigt som kulturens materiella infrastruktur försvagas ... -
MED PUBLIKEN I CENTRUM. En studie om publikutveckling, representation, makt och demokrati på Kulturkvarteret i Örebro
(2024-09-18)Since the decision to build a cultural center, the relatively newly started Kulturkvarteret in Örebro has had to endure both criticism and praise. While Kulturkvarteret is establishing itself as one of the city's central ... -
MELLANFÖRSKAPSSAMER – Om identitet, återtagande och (s)vårt kulturarv
(2025-06-30)This paper examines difficulties that heirs to swedified sami persons experience when learning about how colonialism forced a lot of people to hide or dim their sami identity. The purpose is to examine what genealogy can ... -
Mode, Media, Makt och Materialitet. En studie i AI och bilder av mode genererade i Stable Diffusion och Midjourney
(2024-06-28)The world today is experiencing an AI summer, urging us to engage with its technologies on a daily basis. Recently, researchers have begun to voice concerns about the potential risks if we do not address the inherent biases ... -
National Heroes, Digital Soldiers, Vulnerable Children and all the Others: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Videos Communicating the QAnon Conspiracy Theory
(2024-02-23)This thesis analyses the making of Us and Them in videos communicating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which have been circulating on online social forums. For this purpose, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis is used, ... -
Navigating between gendering and being gendered A qualitative study of non-binary gender unintelligibility and intersectional power relations around gendered embodiment in the Japanese context
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores the lived experiences of ten non-binary individuals in Japan, focusing on how they navigate the interplay between gendering themselves and being gendered by others within a cisnormative society. ... -
Närvaro genom frånvaro: kroppens spår i Ishiuchi Miyakos serie ひろしま / hiroshima (2007–)
(2025-09-03)This study examines Ishiuchi Miyako’s series ひろしま/hiroshima (2007–), portraying clothing worn by victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. It explores how images of material traces of trauma evoke a sense of presence of the ... -
Not A Love Message: Gender and Intimacy as Spatial Practices in Online Tarot Reading
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores how space functions as a central organizing logic in online Tarot readings on China’s video-sharing platform Bilibili, shaping experiences of gender, intimacy, and collective meaning-making. Using a ... -
NÖDVÄNDIGT, OMÖJLIGT OCH MENINGSFULLT. Om att arbeta med kulturtidskrifter
(2024-12-04)This master thesis deals with the working conditions and work motivators for editors of cultural journals in Sweden. Through the qualitative method of semi-structured interviews with editors of cultural journals this thesis ... -
"Också en demokrati behöver kunna försvara sig själv". En kulturkritisk och rättsfilosofisk studie av hur samhället försöker hantera fascism
(2019-08-08)This thesis aims to explore how different actors in society discusses how society should handle fascist organisations. This includes politicians, journalists, the legal system and activists and antifascists. I began by ... -
Olfaktoriska lager - En fenomenologisk undersökning av doftkonst i utställningen Sense Me.
(2020-11-19)Olfactory art is a relatively new field of study in the art historical field and the existing literature is predominantly based on a distanced interpretation of olfactory artworks. In order to explore the gap caused by ... -
Om den ofeministiska jämställdheten och den ojämställda feminismen: en diskursteoretisk analys av en feminismskritisk jämställdhetsrörelse verksam på nätet
(2013-08-28)This essay analyses text written by a gender equality movement critical of feminism. The movement is active on the Internet and through this essay I would like to show the tensions in contemporary political debates on ... -
On agents of power and support: Case studies regarding NGO and State institution discourses on intimate partner violence in the context of LGBT identities
(2017-06-27)The topic of intimate partner violence in contemporary discourse offers theoretical discussions, suggestions for policy reform, and movements for activism across many fields in the current context. However, it appears that ... -
Oppressive Silence: A Qualitative Study on Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence in Namibia and Survivors’ Responses
(2024-06-17)This thesis investigates same-sex intimate partner violence (SSIPV) in Namibia primarily through 12 in-depth interviews with survivors, conducted during three months of field research. In particular, I ex-amine the ...