In order to situate and apply the theory of metamorphosis to the challenges and opportunities within climate change we need to outline its key elements through Beck’s own work and the work of Rasborg (2018) and Lash (2003). This will be achieved by using the work of Honeybun-Arnolda (2017) to critically engage with some of […]
Read more "Ulrich Beck’s Metamorphosis Theory: How applicable is it?"Discourse mediates within and between ourselves and others impacting the promotion, reinforcement and creation of social narratives (Foucault, 2019; Butler, 2006). However, it is important to understand that this mediation of discourse does not happen in a vacuum determined by metaphysical individualism and perfectly distinguishable sets of values. To adequately address ideas around the social […]
Read more "The “Decline of Homophobia”, Foucault and Agential Realism"In this critical reflection I discuss Sam Smith’s music video ‘How Do You Sleep’ using themes around gender expression and performativity (Sam Smith, 2019a; Big Think, 2011; Butler, 1988). Their performance of gender is not better or worse than any other, but I chose this video because something about the gender expression caught me off […]
Read more "Critical Reflection: Femininity Outside of the Female Body"“[T]he overt ‘signs’ of race.. in video games are epiphenomenal on-screen symptoms of far more entrenched racial fictions encoded within.” FICKLE, 2019, P.2 The dialectical relationship between society and the simulation of video games allows paradigms of racism to be grafted onto alien worlds with alternate races and socio-economic strifes. This report is limited by […]
Read more "Report: The reconstruction of systemic racism within video games"How useful is diversity? Whether used as a word, concept, or action we need to cautiously examine institutional motivation around its use and application. In ‘On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life’ Sara Ahmed asks necessary and often overlooked questions such as ‘what does diversity do?’ and seeks to unpack the language of […]
Read more "‘On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life’ Sara Ahmed: Book Review"A short exercise in applying Social Reproduction Theory to Kimbra’s Music Video Settle Down. Alienation is not limited to labour in the workforce but can also be found in the home. Looking at the home through Social reproduction theory intimates that the socially sanctioned need fulfilment and leisure process provided at home is carefully constructed […]
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Read more "FILM: Femininity Outside the Female Body"Symbolic interactionism is a micro-perspective approach to society specifically dealing with the individual and their interactions with other individuals or groups. Herbert Blumer, utilising foundational ideas laid out by George H. Mead, coined the term symbolic interactionism and looked at individual interactions and the transitory nature of meaning. Mead lays out three key steps for […]
Read more "Short Essays: Symbolic Interactionism and Self"Intersectionality seeks to navigate, identify, and make intelligible the “intersecting patterns” of different paradigms (Crenshaw, 1991, p.1243). The intention of this perspective was to address a gap in academia characterised by “ignoring difference within groups [which] contributes to tension among groups” (Crenshaw, 1991, p.1242). Crenshaw noted that “Although racism and sexism regularly intersect in the […]
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