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T HE GENDER EQUALITY CHARADE A Critical Perspective on the Adoption and Implementation of 40/60 Gender Quota in Malawi
(2022-11-02)While gender quotas have been widely adopted by countries around the world as an affirmative action to enhance women’s participation and representation in politics and other public spheres, the impact of the phenomenon ... -
The Devil is in the details: A feminist inquiry into diversity initiatives within the Swedish Private Sector
(2016-10-10)Diversity and gender equality are key buzzwords within the private sector in Sweden. The aim of my thesis was to interrogate how diversity is understood within the private sector in Sweden and identify key motivations for ... -
The Fields of Trans* Necropolitics: Trans Women‟s Narratives On the Vulnerabilities of Trans Death, Bereavement, Posthumous Challenges and Activism in Turkey
(2017-11-09)This study aims to bring forward the phenomenon of trans death, underscoring the challenges that trans women in İstanbul experience, endure and confront during the posthumous scenes of autopsy, funeral and burial. Departing ... -
The Intersectional Intention: (Re)producing Inequalities When Trying to Attain Gender Equality in Sweden
(2017-06-27)This thesis investigated the understanding of intersectionality that is being (re)produced in a Swedish governmental investigation report on gender equality (SOU 2015:86). The aim of this study was to critically examine ... -
The Poor Talent, the Unusually Knowing Housewife and the New You
(2015-09-08)The starting point of this thesis is the working class’ fight for knowledge, education and bildning during the 20th century in Sweden. With the general question “who has the right to knowledge?” I go over text- and image ... -
Thinking images: Filmic thought and the viewer’s perception in the films of Apicahtpong Weerasethakul
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores the concept of the ‘filmind’, film as a thinking entity, through Daniel Frampton’s book Filmosophy and the film phenomenological work of Vivian Sobchack. Highlighting the embodied viewer in the film ... -
This Devious Subject - about the future of this earthly life, my constructive failure to locate myself, and my being as a relationality of subjectivity, discourse and materiality
(2019-10-10)Through articulating what I call my weave of understanding, in this thesis I aspire to come to a new understanding of the relation between materiality, discourse and ubjectivity as with my being composing a relationality ... -
To a Gender Equal Policy Plan and Beyond - Breaking the binary in gender policy making
(2022-10-28)The main aim of this pilot research is to write a set of recommendations aimed at guiding international organisations in making gender equality policy plans following a gender non-binary perspective. The definitions of ... -
TO PERFORM, OR NOT TO PERFORM? A queer reading of feminist theatre performances in Istanbul
(2020-11-30)Feminist theatre, I opine, is a tremendously valuable tool that could help individuals to gaze politically at their own lives. This thesis is compiled by an exploratory research into the theatrical stage of Istanbul ... -
En undersökning av Anselm Kiefers kulturella kapital
(2018-06-20)Title: An investigation of Anselm Kiefer cultural capital The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of cultural capital from the definition created by Pierre Bourdieu, and how this concept can be related to the ... -
Ungdomsorganisationerna och jämställdhet...erna - en diskursanalys av talet om jämställdhet hos 90 svenska ungdomsorganisationer
(2010-10-29)Titel: Ungdomsorganisationerna och jämställdhet…erna - en diskursanalys av talet om jämställdhet hos 90 svenska ungdomsorganisationer Författare: Sofie Kindahl Handledare: Elin Lundsten Examinator: Berit Larsson Typ ... -
Upplagt för feminism: En etnografisk studie av stickningens kvinnogemenskap och feministiska strävanden
(2018-10-05)This thesis examines the relation between knitting, femininity and feminism within the knitting movement organized through social media. The main material used in this study is interview transcriptions. In total, twelve ... -
V.I.N.T.A.G.E. - Om kläder, kvinnor och kulturarv
(2014-06-18)Summary This master thesis in ethnology examines the practices around the phenomena of vintage and second-hand clothing in the early twenty-first century. The resurgence of vintage and retro confirms a craze for the ... -
VILKA ”KUNGAR” VILL VI HA PÅ VÅRA GATOR OCH TORG? En kulturanalytisk studie av två offentliga monument i Göteborg
(2019-10-10)This thesis examines how public monuments are made into cultural heritage, if and in that case, how these monuments affect their surroundings and people. In order to get some answers, two public monuments called Kopparmärra ... -
Visualisering av tystade historier - En dekolonial kulturanalys av verket I firandet av vår kamp finns deras undergång
(2023-08-09)The dominant narrative of history, prevalent in Sweden, is of a country which has no structural racism and that had no part in the colonization of the Americas or in the transatlantic slave trade. This is far from the ... -
”We are Straining Mosquitos and Swallowing Camels” - Human Rights Work in a Municipality Context
(2016-07-05)In this thesis I make a discourse analysis of the Human Rights discourse, and other prevalent discourses in a municipality context, with a special focus on the municipality of Gothenburg. I map where the concept Human ... -
What's the Problem with Gender Inequality? Poststructural Policy Analysis of Gender Equality Policies from County Administrative Boards in Sweden 2018-2020
(2019-07-02)The purpose of this thesis is to do a poststructural analysis of gender equality policies from four county administration boards in Sweden. The thesis aims to examine how the policies construct the problem with gender ... -
Whatever happens, I will never sell the mountains - A reparative analysis of the temporal, political, emotional and intellectual aspects of crafting
(2015-09-09)The aim of this thesis is to investigate time and the values connected to different uses of time. What use is legitimate, and what is seen as a waste of time? I will argue that a general notion of time as ‘bad’ or ‘useless’ ... -
Who Deserves to Be Included? Diffraction of Diversity and Inclusion in Swedish International Organizations
(2023-08-21)My thesis explores how diffraction on D&I is created by the entanglement of the nature of institution (institutional will and wall) and dissemination of neoliberal rationality, and how it perpetuates power relations that ... -
Women’s experiences of gender-based barriers and stereotypes in bodybuilding as a masculine sport in Poland
(2018-06-27)The aim of this thesis is to study gender-based barriers and stereotypes that influence women in masculine sports taking bodybuilding as an example and analyzing four interviews by using a feminism perspective and ...