Sökning: "paradoxical spaces"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden paradoxical spaces.
1. Where Gendered Spaces Bend : The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. LÄS MER
2. Do I look white? : Creating community in online safe spaces for racialized youth
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines identity performances amongst racialized youth in online ‘safe spaces’. Using a netnography-inspired approach to study communities online, the study employs decolonial and narrative theories to analyse identity performances through everyday interaction. LÄS MER
3. När män möts som pappor : Fadrandets politik och praktik i det jämställda och pappavänliga Sverige
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses how fathering is done and how fathers are constructed through the separate organising of men as fathers in meeting places for fathers on parental leave in Sweden. The study is located within the Swedish gender regime, characterised by its dual-earner/dual-carer model, progressive parenthood and daddy politics, and universally-oriented parenting support, making it a relatively gender-equal and father-friendly society. LÄS MER
4. Greeting the visitor : A contextualising study of fauces-mosaics in Pompeii
Sammanfattning : The focus for this study is the collection of mosaic-floors that adorn the entrances, fauces, to atrium-houses around Pompeii. The aim is to further our understanding of the Roman view of transitional spaces, in this case the private house-entrance between the inside and the outside world. LÄS MER
5. Infrafaces: Essays on the Artistic Interaction
Sammanfattning : The essays collected in this dissertation introduce a new concept in the field of interactive art: the concept of infrafaces. This thesis shows how a new zone is discovered when two or more elements connect. LÄS MER