Sökning: "Racial injustices"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Racial injustices.

1. 1. Identitets-manifesterande konst : Postkolonial studie av Jean-Michel Basquiats konstverk

   M1-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Författare :Kenny Jakobsson; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Postkolonial teori; Neo-expressionism; Jean-Michel Basquiat; kulturell identitet; Stuart Hall;

   Sammanfattning : Throughout the centuries artists have used art to express their identity. Art can be used as a tool to question stereotypes and conventions that shape our societies. Black artists emerging from the Civil Rights movements in America questioned social injustices and prejudiced violence that was targeted towards black people. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Powers of Poetry: Creative writing from the Niger Delta as a tool for environmental justice

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Författare :Kerime van Opijnen; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Human Ecology; Environmental Justice; Poetry; Writer Activism; Niger Delta; Shell; Decoloniality; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Inspired by centuries of activists who used creative writing as a tool to encourage reflections and inspire change, this thesis looks at the possibility of poetry to be used as an environmental justice tool. In particular the ability of poetry from Nigeria to engage Dutch people with problems around Shell’s exploitation of the Niger Delta and its people, is investigated. LÄS MER

4. 3. “There is a time when silence is betrayal” En kritisk diskursanalys av den svenska BLM-rörelsen på Instagram

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

   Författare :Josef Eriksson; Linnea Thelander; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Black Lives Matter; BLM; Instagram; Critical Discourse Analysis; Postcolonialism; Structural Racism; Digital Activism; Medialization; Social Movement.;

   Sammanfattning : On March 25th 2020 George Floyd, a black man, was killed on the streets of Minneapolis,Minnesota by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. This sparked new life into the BlackLives Matter movement (BLM), which had been around since 2013. LÄS MER

5. 4. Racism is Not Getting Worse, it's Getting Tweeted. : A study of the impact of non-verbal cues in hashtag activism. Which emojis correlates with #blacklivesmatter and #alllivesmatter?

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Författare :Elin Erlandsson; Nora Kristoffersson; [2021]
   Nyckelord :#blacklivesmatter; #alllivesmatter; BLM; ALM; Emojis; Twitter; Hashtag Activism; CMC; Racial injustices; Senti Strength; Digital Communication; Semiotics; #blacklivesmatter; #alllivesmatter; BLM; ALM; Emojis; Twitter; Hashtag Aktivism; CMC; Rasism; Senti Strength; Digital Kommunikation; Semiotik;

   Sammanfattning : Scholars are often studying emojis as pure visual elements or as essential textual parts. Theories in this study bridge these subfields and examine emojis in both fields. This bridging understanding of emojis is applied to hashtag activism in the discursive Black Lives Matter debate to increase the comprehension of the impact of emojis. LÄS MER

7. 5. What is the Wonder? An ethnography of 'rewilding' at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Elizabeth Cornelia Aardenburg; [2017]
   Nyckelord :land reform; conservation; indigenous people; traditional authority; cultural theory; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : ‘Rewilding’, or the return of degraded lands to a state of ‘wilderness’, is a bold attempt to resolve the world’s ecological challenges. It however does not address the division between nature and society, which lies at the core of the issues. LÄS MER