Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
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Using the Disabilities studies and Anthropological method of entangled ethnography, this research found thatsome disability experts and parts of Leiden University aim for more explicit, systemic...Show moreUsing the Disabilities studies and Anthropological method of entangled ethnography, this research found thatsome disability experts and parts of Leiden University aim for more explicit, systemic framing towards seeing studying with disabilities and dyslexia though the social model of disabilities. However, Leiden University has predominantly used an individualistic framework in keeping with the medical model of disabilities. Any changes or aims for the university usually occur also within the individualistic framework. Further, a possible culture of constructivism at LIACS aligns to the individualistic framing of LU to further put the blame and burden of studying with dyslexia onto the individuals with it. Although studying with a disability like dyslexia at LU isa centralised system and has many great experts working on it, there is an absence of knowledge on and education about studying with a disability and dyslexia in staff and students. This might have led to dyslexia primarily being dealt with using extra-time adjustments. A strategy of avoidance is highlighted as a way some students at LIACS deal with the barriers of studying with dyslexia. Overwhelmingly, even if some parts of LU wish for change towards the social model or beyond model of disability, LU currently operates with a medical model of disability in practice. Until active steps are taken to move past the medical model of disability at the university, it will be difficult to see what advantages might lie beyond.Show less
Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
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Although the Netherlands is o1en seen as a country which is far ahead when it comes to women’s emancipa9on, stranger harassment of women is s9ll very common. In an effort to bring a@en9on to this...Show moreAlthough the Netherlands is o1en seen as a country which is far ahead when it comes to women’s emancipa9on, stranger harassment of women is s9ll very common. In an effort to bring a@en9on to this o1en normalized form of gender based violence, this ar9cle explores what kind of harassment women in Amsterdam experience in public spaces and how this harassment and its poten9ality influences their behaviors in these spaces. The ar9cle is based on an audiovisual, ethnographic study in which women from Amsterdam were extensively interviewed and accompanied on their daily movements through the city. Apart from this ar9cle, the study and its findings are presented in the ethnographic film Hé Meisje (‘What’s Up, Girl’). Findings reveal that women, in an effort to avoid uncomfortable situa9ons and as an answer to their fear of geKng physically harassed, o1en make evalua9ons on where to go or how to behave in public. This shows how they have incorporated the poten9ality of harassment into their daily lives. The fear of harassment restricts women’s mobility, showing how this emo9on is poli9cal, as it helps to reinforce patriarchal ideas on who ‘owns’ public spaces. Although experiencing harassment some9mes might seem subjec9ve, we should not forget that this is a shared experience between all women who are moving through public spaces which are gendered. S9ll women resist harassment by being resilient and by speaking up about it (mainly) outside of actual harassment incidents.Show less
Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
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By advertising nature based recreation, companies associated with the winter sport industry are inherently reliant on reinscribing a dualistic nature/culture opposition. While nature is advertised...Show moreBy advertising nature based recreation, companies associated with the winter sport industry are inherently reliant on reinscribing a dualistic nature/culture opposition. While nature is advertised as something ‘out there’, the practise of nature based recreation, offered by skiing resorts, is excessed in fully regulated human made spaces. By turning an infrastructural lens on the high alpine region, the practical ontologies of human and nonhuman co-creation are examined. While the practise of nature based recreation has positive effects on the environmental attitudes of practitioners, the ecological irony of winter sports tourism is stretched. By employing the techniques of audiovisual research and infrastructural inversion as analytical strategies, the hidden workings of regional infrastructures are explored. By analysing infrastructural changes within and outside the skiing resort Kitzsteinhorn (AT) a correlation between infrastructural arrangements and environmental attitudes was examined. This is a multimodal thesis submitted in the course of the Master Specialisation in Visual Ethnography at the faculty of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Its results are presented in the form of this written thesis and an ethnographic short-film Surfing Frozen Oceans (26 min.)Show less
