Culture and human backgrounds have a very big impact on how we see the world around usand most importantly how we see other cultures. In modern society, movies and pictures havehelped us to see the world around us better than ever and to gain an understanding of othercultures. Some of these commitments have become clichés, some are true and others are false.Using the design perspective "Situated knowledge" which in a short sentence, based on wherewe grow up, in what time and place or background, knowledge of everything around us issituated. This article focuses on the fact that sound and knowledge of sound clichés is alsosituated and sometimes it can lead to misconceptions about an foreign culture. / Kultur och människobakgrunder har en mycket stor inverkan på hur vi ser världen runt ossoch viktigast av allt hur vi ser andra kulturer. I det moderna samhället har filmer och bilderhjälpt oss att se världen runt oss bättre än någonsin och att få förståelse för andra kulturer,några av dessa åtaganden har blivit klisheér, vissa är sanna och andra är falska. Med hjälp avdesign perspektivet "Situated knowledge" som i kort mening, baserat på var vi växer upp, ivilken tid och plats eller bakgrund, kunskap om världen är situerad. Den här artikeln fokuserarpå att ljud och kunskap om ljudklishéer också är situerad och ibland kan det leda tillmissuppfattning om en främling kultur.

<p>This study aims to investigate the consequences for feminist sex therapy that it is promoted as an alternative to a mainstream approach. Analytically I focus on the relation between normativity, claims to knowledge and professional legitimacy. I study sex therapeutic academic texts, and the material is approached through a framework developed by combining Donna Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges with elements from Karen Barad’s agential realism</p><p>My analysis starts in feminist sex therapists’ criticism of how masculine norms in mainstream sex therapy lead to a flawed theory of sexual matters. Feminist sex therapists, however, allege that it is specifically feminist norms that grant a more complete theory of sex and sexual problems within feminist alternatives in sex therapy. To that effect, feminists discern sexual problems in relation to the impact a patriarchal society has on particularly women’s sexualities, and treatment is articulated as seeking to liberate women from constraints associated with gendered social positions.</p><p>In mainstream sex therapy, allegedly value-neutral insights into human physiology are called upon for the establishment of professional legitimacy. Nevertheless, normative investments are relied upon implicitly to discern sexual problems and sexual well-being with the consequence that sexual problems are understood as conditions that interfere with the ability to have sex, largely equated with coitus, and with the motivation to form coupled sexual relations. By alleviating sexual problems, these abilities and motivations are allegedly restored in the form of natural, already present, capacities for sexual functioning. Comparing my analysis to feminist critiques, I argue that the latter have not fully theorized the significance of normative investments, and have left unchallenged assumptions in mainstream therapy that enable a restorative and liberationist construal of sex therapy’s objective.</p><p>Although feminist alternatives contain a markedly different theorization of sexual problems, they have retained, from the mainstream approach, the notion that sex therapy seeks to liberate its clients. This notion stands in conflict with feminist theorizations of sexual problems, and in my conclusion I argue that feminist sex therapy would benefit from abandoning its liberationist element.</p>

This study aims to investigate the consequences for feminist sex therapy that it is promoted as an alternative to a mainstream approach. Analytically I focus on the relation between normativity, claims to knowledge and professional legitimacy. I study sex therapeutic academic texts, and the material is approached through a framework developed by combining Donna Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges with elements from Karen Barad’s agential realism My analysis starts in feminist sex therapists’ criticism of how masculine norms in mainstream sex therapy lead to a flawed theory of sexual matters. Feminist sex therapists, however, allege that it is specifically feminist norms that grant a more complete theory of sex and sexual problems within feminist alternatives in sex therapy. To that effect, feminists discern sexual problems in relation to the impact a patriarchal society has on particularly women’s sexualities, and treatment is articulated as seeking to liberate women from constraints associated with gendered social positions. In mainstream sex therapy, allegedly value-neutral insights into human physiology are called upon for the establishment of professional legitimacy. Nevertheless, normative investments are relied upon implicitly to discern sexual problems and sexual well-being with the consequence that sexual problems are understood as conditions that interfere with the ability to have sex, largely equated with coitus, and with the motivation to form coupled sexual relations. By alleviating sexual problems, these abilities and motivations are allegedly restored in the form of natural, already present, capacities for sexual functioning. Comparing my analysis to feminist critiques, I argue that the latter have not fully theorized the significance of normative investments, and have left unchallenged assumptions in mainstream therapy that enable a restorative and liberationist construal of sex therapy’s objective. Although feminist alternatives contain a markedly different theorization of sexual problems, they have retained, from the mainstream approach, the notion that sex therapy seeks to liberate its clients. This notion stands in conflict with feminist theorizations of sexual problems, and in my conclusion I argue that feminist sex therapy would benefit from abandoning its liberationist element.

My research for this thesis focusses on the concepts of representation and space in order to demonstrate their theoretical and practical co-implications. Discussing various theorists of space in the first part and analyzing a number of artists and artworks as case studies in the second part, I elaborate a critique of the representational imaginary in order to articulate an alternative notion of representation by means of which a relational, qualitative and performative spatiality can emerge. I specifically focus on technospaces, which I consider a privileged field for observing the intersections of representation and spatiality; it is a field in which the use of spatial metaphors abounds, very often relying on a series of dichotomies (such as location and mobility, the real and the virtual) that have employed and, in most cases, reinforced the traditional idiom of representational. Drawing on the lessons of feminist theory, particularly on approaches to the politics of location, from Adrienne Rich‘s initial formulation to the situated knowledge theorized by Donna Haraway, I elaborate a situated aesthetics of technospaces in which the observer‘s engagement with representational practices replaces the view from a distance of traditional representation, so that her/his position is accounted for together with the history of the production of space and its multiple representations. For this reason, I also formulate an articulatory turn in representation based on Haraway‘s semiotics in order to propose a non-reflexive notion of representation in which invention and factuality eventually meet.

The demand for ‘green’ resources is growing, and in response to this, industrial expansion in northern Sweden is accelerating, leaving little room for a thorough examination of long-term consequences from ecological and social perspectives. Resource extraction in Sweden is nothing new, and some areas still deal with the consequences of previously hastily induced industrialism. This research explores how embodied experiences can be utilized to convey the hidden narratives of a riverine landscape affected by extractive industries, more precisely the area around Áhkájávvre situated in the Luleå River, and how situating oneself within these embodied narratives can contribute to raising public awareness of their ecological and cultural impacts. To support this research question, theories of situated knowledge are introduced, which advocate for the subjective knowledges of the landscape’s ecology and the embodiment of the agents in it. By highlighting the perspectives of its ecology, this thesis aims to connect the urban and the hinterlands - the operational landscapes and change how we view them. The research is conducted through interviews and case studies, followed by a design-as- research methodology, a process-based project which explores various methods of artistic research representation as mediators to situate the observer in the subject and embody the knowledge of the site. It is explored through two perspectives: the area of disturbance (the operational landscape) and the disruptor (us), through the scope of social and ecological dimensions, represented by ‘the people’ and ‘the soil’. This research presents scenarios and explorations aimed at increasing connection to, and raising public awareness of, resource extraction, both historical and ongoing. These scenarios highlight the local effects of the affected area, and the interconnectedness of operational landscapes and urban environments. This research contributes to the understanding of the need for embodied experiences in developing an understanding of the hidden consequences of resource extraction on operational landscape, and to situate oneself in its context.

In this bachelor thesis we research and discuss a theme that has been the focus for many feminist figures and groups in both older and recent content where they clash together in an effort to find a solution to a problem that has been plaguing our society. The problem being; a lack in diversity inside Game development companies and creation, thus our question becomes; how can We include or encourage more women to enter the digital world and participate in programming and game making. The methods that has been chosen for this thesis range from Critical Design: to design and create a unique game of our own, Interviews: to question women from different backgrounds and ages to find out what they want/wish for regarding games, to Kanban: where we use it to get our project together. All while linking this entire thesis to Situated Knowledge concept where we dive in deeper to what it means in the discussion part and how in our results we discoverer a way that we individually can use to change the gaming industry and its involvement. / I det här kandidatarbetet undersökes det ett problem som har varit centrum för många feministiska figurer och grupper i båda äldre och senaste innehåll där man har försökt på flera år och sätt att hitta lösning till; vilket är brist på mångfald inom spelutvecklingsföretag och skapandet, särskild när det gäller kvinnor. Då vår fråga blev; hur kan vi inkludera eller uppmuntra fler kvinnor att komma in i den digitala världen och delta i programmering samt spelframställning. Metoderna som har valts för denna avhandling sträcker sig från Critical Design: Att utforma och skapa ett unikt spel med hjälp av konceptet. Intervjuer: Fråga kvinnor från olika bakgrunder och åldrar för att ta reda på vad de vill / önskar med avseende på spel, till Kanban: där vi använder det här projektmetoden för att få vårt projekt ihop. Samtidigt kopplas hela arbetet till Situated-knowledge konceptet där vi fördjupar oss i om vad det betyder i diskussionsdelen med sambandet av resultat där upptäcker vi en väg/ potentiell lösning som kan användas enskild för att förändra spelbranschen.

ABSTRAKT Detta kandidatarbete består av en enda frågeställning som undersöks med stöd av relevant forskning och författarens egen prövande gestaltning. De begrepp som fokuseras på i detta arbete är situerad kunskap och intra-aktion, men även ett antal andra relevanta medietekniska begrepp tas upp. Arbetet ämnar undersöka provokationer när det gäller ljud och bild som står i kontrast till varandra samt hur begreppen intra-aktion och situerad kunskap kan hjälpa medietekniker att medvetet påverka människors upplevelse av konstinstallationer. I detta kandidatarbete så har fyra installationer designats och producerats samt att experiment utförts på ett antal testpersoner. Installationerna i detta kandidatarbete är skapade med Logic Pro X (Apple Inc 2017) och visades för testpersonerna med hjälp av en skärm och tillhörande ljud genom ett par hörlurar. Nyckelord: Intra-aktion, Situerad Kunskap, Provokation / ABSTRACT This bachelor thesis consists of a single research question that is examined with the support of relevant research and the author's own tentative interpretation. The concepts that are focused on in this bachelor thesis are situated knowledge and intra-action, but also a number of other relevant media technical concepts are addressed. The goal is to investigate provocations in terms of sound and image that stand in contrast to each other and how the concepts of intra-action and situated knowledge can help media technicians to consciously influence people's experience of art installations. In this bachelor thesis, four installations have been designed and produced, and experiments have been performed on a number of test subjects. The installations in this bachelor thesis were created with Logic Pro X (Apple Inc 2017) and were shown to the test subjects using a screen and associated audio through a pair of headphones Keywords: Intra-action, Situated Knowledge, Provocation

The purpose of this study is to better understand the experiences of allies in social movements,in this case the Black Lives Matter movement in Sweden. The sociological relevance lies in understanding how allies balance being active in a movement that departs from an identity category to which one is an outsider, and what this means in terms of responsibility, privilege, and problems. 11 qualitative interviews with self-identified White allies constitute the data, which has been analyzed and interpreted in relation to theories of modernity and situated knowledge. The results indicate that the ally role is perceived as meaningful and rewarding, but surrounded by different aspects to carefully balance. These balances relate to the term interpretation privilege, a political term related to the concept of situated knowledge, and it both motivates and paralyzes the allies in their navigation in ally work.

This study aims to examine play as a phenomena from a phenomenological approach. This I do by discussing a dominant approach to play, an perspective which is reproduced in the context of pre-school and in where the play and learning is in single focus. Using alternative perspective on play, mainly by Gadamer and Bakthtins philosophical thoughts about the feast or the carnival, contents differ significantly from educational or developmental psychology perspectives. I open up for an understanding of what play as ontology can be understood as, and thereby enable second readings. I illustrate this thought by an empirical example from a pre-school context which where created alongside with the children in the study. Thesis that has inspired the methodology and the empirical approach includes a feminist research tradition where power analysis and critical theory of science usually has been the main focus.

Since 2018 and what is referred to as the “Oxfam scandal” it seems that the practices around the prevention of sexual violence in the aid sector have evolved but it is difficult to estimate how much has changed. This research focuses on the specific point of view of managers in aid organizations. They have a specific role with regards to safeguarding because they manage a team and are involved in project design.  This study’s aim is to understand how humanitarian managers perceive and experience their responsibilities towards safeguarding. Based on the analysis of interviews with 6 managers, it examines how they perceive their responsibilities with regards to safeguarding and the risks of sexual violence. It also questions how equipped they feel to mitigate these risks and whether they have observed a change in the past few years, with regards to sexual violence in the aid sector.  This qualitative research relies on the framework of gender-based violence, the concept of intersectionality, the concept of situated knowledge of Donna Haraway and the theory of competencies, one of the theories of adult learning.  It demonstrates that the perceptions of sexual violence by managers of the aid sector are linked to their personal ethics and experiences and that although they consider themselves responsible to prevent sexual violence, their perceptions of the risks are not homogenous. This study lays the ground for further research on safeguarding from the perspectives of managers, with a stronger emphasis on intersectional and decolonial approaches.