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Materialitet och genus på fritidsgården. En pingisboll på vift, ett schackbord utan pjäser och den (o)synliga mobiltelefonen

Lundin, Sandra LU (2019) ETNK02 20182
Division of Ethnology
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze how staff and young people use and experience materiality in the youth recreation center in order to increase staff's knowledge about ways of working with gender roles. The material consists of observation records and a focus group interview with staff from a youth recreation center in southern Sweden. The three theories used in the essay are Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology, mainly her concepts of objects, orientation and lines, Karen Barad's post humanist concepts phenomena and intra-action and Daniel Miller's theory of things. The ping-pong table, chess board-tables and the young people's own mobile phones are objects that proved to have great power over how the material existence was experienced... (More)
The purpose of this study is to analyze how staff and young people use and experience materiality in the youth recreation center in order to increase staff's knowledge about ways of working with gender roles. The material consists of observation records and a focus group interview with staff from a youth recreation center in southern Sweden. The three theories used in the essay are Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology, mainly her concepts of objects, orientation and lines, Karen Barad's post humanist concepts phenomena and intra-action and Daniel Miller's theory of things. The ping-pong table, chess board-tables and the young people's own mobile phones are objects that proved to have great power over how the material existence was experienced and used by young people and staff and is therefore central to the analysis. The result shows that the material existence affects how the girls and the boys behave and use the space of the youth recreation center. (Less)
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author
Lundin, Sandra LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Materiality and gender in the youth recreation center. A ping-pong ball on the loose, a chess table without chess pieces and the (in)visible mobile phone
course
ETNK02 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Youth recreation center, youth culture, material culture, gender, social work
language
Swedish
id
8968468
date added to LUP
2019-02-06 11:25:44
date last changed
2019-02-06 11:25:44
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this study is to analyze how staff and young people use and experience materiality in the youth recreation center in order to increase staff's knowledge about ways of working with gender roles. The material consists of observation records and a focus group interview with staff from a youth recreation center in southern Sweden. The three theories used in the essay are Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology, mainly her concepts of objects, orientation and lines, Karen Barad's post humanist concepts phenomena and intra-action and Daniel Miller's theory of things. The ping-pong table, chess board-tables and the young people's own mobile phones are objects that proved to have great power over how the material existence was experienced and used by young people and staff and is therefore central to the analysis. The result shows that the material existence affects how the girls and the boys behave and use the space of the youth recreation center.}},
  author       = {{Lundin, Sandra}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Materialitet och genus på fritidsgården. En pingisboll på vift, ett schackbord utan pjäser och den (o)synliga mobiltelefonen}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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