Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"feminist ethnography"”.
-
Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
… to reimagine an accountable and collaborative ethnography. The standard of ethnographic research methods relies on neo-colonial and exploitative practices to create knowledge and data. This thesis reinserts the work of many researchers of color identifying that the discipline’s antecedents …
-
Surviving prejudice : a feminist ethnography of Muslim women living and studying in Middle Town, Indiana, United States.
This study described a subculture of Muslim women who live and study in Middle Town, Indiana and who actively participate in the religious and social activities conducted by the Middle Town Islamic Center. Acting in response to negative stereotyping of this population, this study shines a light on …
-
Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America
… within the diaspora and in Iran. Through a feminist ethnographic analysis of Iranian women's narratives, I work against Western stereotypes as a way to problematize the assumption that immersion in Western culture "saves" Middle Eastern women from their supposed cultural and religious …
-
Obstetric-risk objects: a multi-site, feminist ethnography of private-sector obstetric, maternal and unborn, caring concerns in Cape Town
… A mixed approach to data collection, utilising a feminist, multisite ethnography helped uncover an interconnected web of relationships and made visible an architecture of risks. Findings are based on observations, indepth, longitudinal interviews, and participant observation with seven …
-
Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture
… intergenerational teenage motherhood. Intimate, feminist ethnography is used to explore the experiences of my mother and my grandmother who were both teenage mothers. Teenage mothers are blamed for perpetuating a cycle of poverty in the United States by conservative and neoliberal adherents, yet …
-
Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices
Chapter one grounds the ethnographic methods in feminist theory and claims that the future of feminist work in writing studies must explore new media as a research method. The majority of the chapter examines the connections such work can make with feminist film studies and feminist ethnography, …
-
Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System
… with mass incarceration. Pulling on Black feminist epistemologies, critical geography, and critical feminist ethnography, this is an investigation into the intersection of punishment and Black women that is both structural and deeply intimate.</p>
-
"""Is My Honor Not Honor?"": Women's Narratives of Marriage, Violence and Culture in Lahaul, India"
My feminist ethnographic project involving three years of fieldwork documents and historicizes life histories of women at different stages in their life span from the little studied Himalayan valley of Lahaul India. More specifically the project focuses on marriage by abduction, a traditional …
-
Holding on: gender relations, food security and women’s options and strategies for maintaining access to land in the Acholi region of Uganda
… security, through a gender awareness lens and a feminist ethnography, this thesis provides a nuanced understanding of how women maintain access to customary land and how they can achieve food security, albeit within a male dominated system.
-
Redefining the "Ideal Qatari Woman" in the 21st Century: The Role of Qatari Women in Nation Building and Branding
… branding. I employ the tools of transnational feminist theory, as well as the methodologies of feminist ethnography and critical discourse analysis, to identify discourses produced about Qatari women’s shifting roles in the nation and the home and to offer new insight into Qatari women’s varied …
-
Brides of Drought: (Un)tying the Knots Between Climate, Cane, and Early Marriage in Western India
… social reproduction framework with girlhood and feminist political ecology theories to present a twofold argument: first, poor rainfall and plummeting groundwater tables, coupled with the loss of local livelihoods and the imperative to migrate, are driving the cycle of early marriage in …
-
"God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza
<p>My thesis, 'God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me': Writings From the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza is a feminist ethnography of a poetry workshop I conducted over three months in el Hogar la Buena Esperanza, a home for under-privileged indigenous girls located within a cloistered …
-
On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
… conventionally taken by emotion research. A feminist ethnography is used with an iterative inductive research process engaging a variety of techniques, including digital/social media. My own multiple insider identities (of middle-class, white, English-Afrikaans woman, and planner) are used to …
-
Mapping the Assembly of Muslim Exceptionality and Exceptional Muslims in Colonial Modernity. Ismaili Muslim Encounters through Discourses, Bodies and Space in the Canadian Colonial Nation
… celebrated society. This critical feminist ethnography makes visible the encounters and present economies of sociopolitical currents in which the Ismailis, as a Muslim community and gendered ethnicized bodies, move and animate in Canada as a settler colonial race formation as well …
-
From lifestyle media to lived practice: an ethnography of class, gender and ordinary gardening
… Drawing on autobiography, early culturalism and feminist ethnography, it constructs a framework that includes mundane practices as part of cultural analysis and insists that ordinary working-class men and women be valued. Part One examines what Bourdieu's (1986,1977,1990a, 1990b) theoretical …
-
Making a Life for Themselves: Gender, Identity, and Everyday Negotiations of Rohingya Women in Bangladesh’s Refugee Camps
… forced migration. Based on fourteen months of feminist ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong-Balukhali mega-camp between 2017 and 2018, this dissertation focuses on how Rohingya refugee women deal with the process of settling into the camp, negotiate marriage and other intimate …
-
Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition
… exist on the social media site Tumblr. Blending feminist ethnographic fieldwork with post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical analysis, I interrogate fat positive identity formation, Tumblr as a site of resistance and the representational politics embedded in the fat activist Tumblr …
-
Chaotic Schooling: State schools and the making of (un)freedom in contemporary Brazil
With this work, I explore and discuss the relationship between state-provided education and the making of substantive freedoms for urban Brazilian underprivileged populations. In Brazil, state schools for basic education, which are the ones attended by poor urban students, are highly recognised as …