Sökning: "recognition politics"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden recognition politics.

  1. 16. Kroppslinjer – Kön, transsexualism och kropp i berättelser om könskorrigering

    Författare :Signe Bremer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Queer phenomenology; queer; heteronormativity; gender; materiality; transsexualism; body; Swedish health care; psychiatry; ethnography; activism; lgbtq studies; transgender studies; ; ethnology; etnologi; welfare state; internet; body politics;

    Sammanfattning : The aim with this dissertation is to analyse the construction and challenge of body and personhood in transsexual persons narratives on gender correction, as well as what these narratives tells of the terms through which human bodies become intelligible and recognised as possible persons. The analysis focus on the human body as a lived socially produced materiality, yet also a dynamic material actor of flesh and blood. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition : On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face

    Författare :Lila Lee-Morrison; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Sammanfattning : This book offers a unique analysis of the use of the automated facial recognition algorithms that are increasingly intervening in our society from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The discussion focuses on the visuality of automated facial recognition and its designed algorithms as a case study in machinic vision and its concurrent modes of perception. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Maskulinitet i feminismens tjänst : Dragkingande som praktik, politik och begär

    Författare :Anna Olovsdotter Lööv; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; drag king; queer; queer phenomenology; epistemic community; feminism; queer activism; critical feminist ethnography; empowerment; the body; desire.;

    Sammanfattning : Masculinity in the service of feminism. Drag kinging as practice, politics, and desire. The aim of the thesis is to explore drag kinging as lived experience at the crossroads of masculinity, the body, and feminist politics. Drag kinging is defined as a conscious performance of masculinity. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Private Rivers : Politics of Renewable Energy and the Rise of Water Struggles in Turkey

    Författare :Mine Islar; LUCSUS; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Renewable energy; neoliberal state; water rights; privatisation; Turkey; sustainability;

    Sammanfattning : Private Rivers is a study of contested processes whereby use rights to water are privatised for electricity production. It engages with the issues of renewable energy solutions and the sustainability of run-of-river hydro projects in Turkey by investigating the connection between these policies and justice for rural populations, whose livelihood depends on the rivers. LÄS MER

  7. 20. The Institutional Sources of Statehood - Assimilation, Multiculturalism and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Författare :Anna Persson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutions; institutional theory; states; statehood; taxation; taxes; citizenship; assimilation; multiculturalism; ethnic diversity; ethnicity; identity; sub-Saharan Africa; Botswana; Zambia; Uganda;

    Sammanfattning : Today, almost all states are, or at least claim to be, nation-states. As such, they subscribe to the legitimating doctrine of national sovereignty and claim to derive state power from, as well as exercise it for, a nation. LÄS MER