UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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"Welcome Back To My Channel"
(2022)Mukbang videos is a phenomenon originating from South Korea which started approximately in 2008. In a Mukbang video, there is a person who is recording themselves while eating, and there are others who can watch that person ... -
How conceptions of the future inform practice, and the degree of engagement with the status quo, in an eco- village in Ireland
(2022)Intentional communities are often typified by their degree of withdrawal from mainstream, however the literature on intentional communities has identified these fourth wave communities as being typified by their engagement ... -
“No home is the same”: Domestic energy justice in times of rising prices and the energy transition in Overvecht, Utrecht
(2022)Energy poverty is a growing problem in the light of the steep rise of energy prices of 2021/2022. Vulnerability to energy poverty is not just dependent on high prices, low income, and energy-inefficient housing and appliances, ... -
Tata Steel versus Wijk aan Zee: creating a citizenship out of the battle between Health and Economy
(2022)In the contestation of Tata’s Steel industrial pollution in the region of the Ijmond in the Netherlands, I am exploring the link between economic and social inequalities and how they form people’s perception of risk to ... -
Shifting the Dialogue
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“Liever Dood dan Monddood”: An Anthropological Perspective on the Belongingness of Ongehoorde Nederlanders
(2022)During three months of fieldwork, I conducted ethnographic research on Ongehoorde Nederlanders, meaning Unheard Dutchmen. As the name reveals, participants share feelings of unheardness: they feel excluded, disregarded, ... -
Imagining a Good Life without Children: An ethnographic exploration of how Dutch people who desire to not have children aspire and realize a meaningful life and future without having children
(2022)The Netherlands could be contextualized as a neoliberal country where the nuclear family as the cornerstone of society, derived from the Christian dominance of the past centuries, is embodied as the norm. This thesis ... -
Autonomous Mothers
(2022)Research by several gynecologists has already shown that 10 to 20 % of women found their childbirth process traumatic (Hollander & Stamrood 2017). Further research has even shown that 1 to 3% of women are even left with ... -
Embodying LGBTQ+ Safety An Ethnographic Exploration of safe spaces and how different actors and environments can embody a safe space by diving into high school Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs).
(2022)Navigating the unsafe space of Dutch high schools, teachers and students have collaboratively created safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students, known as Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs). These GSAs usually have meetings once ... -
Promises of Care
(2022)Living in a time considered the Anthropocene may bring about grievous feelings, and for some, even feelings of unhomeliness. The accelerated anthropogenic ecological and climatic changes and their diverse effects on human ... -
Identifying the river sources and the ocean dynamics of floating plastic in the Galápagos Archipelago
(2022)The increase of ocean plastic in the Gal ́apagos Archipelago receives more and more attention in recent years. However, the sources and the potential processes that cause the locally found plastic remain unknown. In previous ... -
The Climate and I. How Ecological Thinking becomes Ecological Practice.
(2022)The Young Climate Movement [JKB] aims to reduce the impact of climate change and the ecological footprint of Dutch society. Since 2016, their membership has grown exponentially from a handful of young people to over ... -
When we talk about Trees
(2022)This thesis, written for the MSc in Cultural Anthropology: Sustainable Citizenship, describes and explains relationships between people and trees in the context of ‘nominating trees’ for two projects. Looking at people’s ... -
Wolves Between the Lines of Nature & Culture
(2022)This thesis explores the ways in which the wolf’s return to the Netherlands shapes human and other-than-human assemblages in the Veluwe with an emphasis on its Southern-Western region. Through my engagements with all kinds ... -
Exploring the Relation between Sustainable and Second-hand Fashion and the Self
(2022)This thesis explores how young adults in the Netherlands, and more particularly in Amsterdam and Utrecht engage with sustainable fashion while facing dilemmas related to their economic uncertainty and specific positionality ... -
Doughnut Economy Amsterdam A reimagination of urban sustainability policies and citizenship
(2022)This thesis aimed to provide an overview of what has transpired since the Doughnut Economy aspiration was first articulated in the urban setting of Amsterdam. This thesis looked into the sustainability conceptualizations ... -
Change how to change? Including university Master’s students’ struggles, dreams, and actions into regenerative academic education
(2022)Academic institutes advocate tackling contemporary social challenges by their Third mission. However, a friction with their educational approach can appear: pursuits towards global justice and social equality are entangled ... -
(NO) HOPE FOR A FUTURE
(2022)We, living beings, find ourselves in a rapidly changing world. Humanity can no longer deny that it is damaging and having an indisputable impact on our planet. The effects of these changes are becoming increasingly ...