Sökning: "Gendered Walking"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gendered Walking.

  1. 1. Walking the Line : Female Wedding Ngoma in Zanzibar

    Författare :Carolien Hulshof; Mattias Lundberg; Sverker Finnström; Byron Dueck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Zanzibar; women; ngoma; African music analysis; sexuality; gender relations; ethnomusicology; heterotopia; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the music of two female ngoma, or music-dance events, that are associated with weddings in Zanzibar: unyago and msanja. Zanzibar is a Muslim island, and there are distinct social spheres for men and women, each with their own norms and expectations with regards to speech, dress, and behavior. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces

    Författare :Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suriashi; Slow Walking; Gendered Walking; Japanese dance; Nihon Buyō; Postmodern dance; Japanese theatre; Nō theatre; Practice-led research; Artistic research; Intercultural dance; pilgrimage; critical heritage; screendance;

    Sammanfattning : This practice-led PhD-thesis draws on an existing Japanese movement practice called suriashi, which translates as sliding foot. Suriashi is a specific gender codified walking technique in classical Japanese dance and theatre, and an important method for acting on stage. LÄS MER

  4. 3. "Walking in the Spirit" : The Complexity of Belonging in Two Pentecostal Churches in Durban, South Africa

    Författare :Kristina Helgesson; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Lars Hagborg; Rijk van Dijk; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Pentecostalism; phenomenology; belonging; South Africa; time; space; home; gender; hope; fear; balance; control; apartheid; anthropology of religion; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; kulturantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : Drawing on anthropological fieldwork carried out in the two Pentecostal congregations Red Hill and Olive Tree in Durban, South Africa, this dissertation discusses the complexity of the experience of belonging among the members. Red Hill is a ‘coloured’ congregation, while Olive Tree is ‘white’; a fact that in present-day South Africa still is of significance for the experience of belonging. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Adolescents' encounters with public space : safety and mobility in relation to individual and contextual factors in Sweden

    Författare :Klara Johansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: Public space, areas to which everyone has access, is especially important for adolescents. Their mobility, e.g. when travelling to school, and perceived safety and security in that environment impacts on their health, safety, and development. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction

    Författare :Astrid Møller-Olsen; Kinesiska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary sensory studies; sensory studies; urban fiction; senses; Sinophone fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature; Taipei; Hong Kong; Shanghai; literary studies; spacetime; spatiality; narratology; rhythmanalysis;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. LÄS MER