Narratives of resilience and agency: Ukrainian women refugees in Galicia from a feminist perspective
Authorship
O.K.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
O.K.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
Defense date
09.11.2025 16:30
09.11.2025 16:30
Summary
This master's thesis focuses on the experience of forced displacement of Ukrainian women refugees as a consequence of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It analyzes the case of those who relocated to Galicia between 2022 and 2025. The methodological framework, grounded in Judith Butler’s critique of liberal autonomy and the concept of vulnerability, Foucauldian biopolitics, the contributions of Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero’s narrative philosophy, made it possible to problematize the category of “Ukrainian women refugees” as a new object of feminist inquiry and to examine the specificity of this group’s legal status. The empirical section, based on semi-structured interviews, analyzes their testimonies, identifying three types of narratives that reflect different strategies for coping with uncertainty in a new social environment. The research highlights aspects of vulnerability in the Ukrainian women refugees’ accounts and sheds light on the ways in which these women exercise agency. In the context of the humanitarian crisis and growing political polarization, the study seeks to offer a deeper ethical-political understanding of the refugee experience from a feminist perspective.
This master's thesis focuses on the experience of forced displacement of Ukrainian women refugees as a consequence of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It analyzes the case of those who relocated to Galicia between 2022 and 2025. The methodological framework, grounded in Judith Butler’s critique of liberal autonomy and the concept of vulnerability, Foucauldian biopolitics, the contributions of Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero’s narrative philosophy, made it possible to problematize the category of “Ukrainian women refugees” as a new object of feminist inquiry and to examine the specificity of this group’s legal status. The empirical section, based on semi-structured interviews, analyzes their testimonies, identifying three types of narratives that reflect different strategies for coping with uncertainty in a new social environment. The research highlights aspects of vulnerability in the Ukrainian women refugees’ accounts and sheds light on the ways in which these women exercise agency. In the context of the humanitarian crisis and growing political polarization, the study seeks to offer a deeper ethical-political understanding of the refugee experience from a feminist perspective.
Direction
MARTINEZ SUAREZ, YOLANDA (Tutorships)
MARTINEZ SUAREZ, YOLANDA (Tutorships)
Court
AGIS VILLAVERDE, MARCELINO (Chairman)
PARCERO OUBIÑA, OSCAR (Secretary)
GARCIA SOTO, LUIS MODESTO (Member)
AGIS VILLAVERDE, MARCELINO (Chairman)
PARCERO OUBIÑA, OSCAR (Secretary)
GARCIA SOTO, LUIS MODESTO (Member)
Reconquest and hispanidad: re-signification of the myth in the construction of spanish identity
Authorship
N.M.M.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
N.M.M.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
Defense date
09.11.2025 16:30
09.11.2025 16:30
Summary
The Reconquista is usually perceived as an extensive historical period characterized by the expansion of Christian kingdoms throughout the Iberian Peninsula. However, this study proposes a critical analysis of how the concept of hispanidad has been re-signified through the myth of the Reconquista. The perspective adopted here considers the Reconquista not merely as a historical fact, but as a discursive and ideological artifact constructed along the border between identity and alterity. This narrative continues to function today, shaping Spanish identity in opposition to Muslim alterity, through renewed discourses aimed at exclusion. Although these dynamics reached their peak during Francoism, they continue to resonate today in the discourse of the far-right. Thus, it appears necessary to adopt a critical approach that allows us to understand the Reconquista as a continuously re-signified myth and enables us to reinterpret Spanish identity in pluralistic and inclusive terms.
The Reconquista is usually perceived as an extensive historical period characterized by the expansion of Christian kingdoms throughout the Iberian Peninsula. However, this study proposes a critical analysis of how the concept of hispanidad has been re-signified through the myth of the Reconquista. The perspective adopted here considers the Reconquista not merely as a historical fact, but as a discursive and ideological artifact constructed along the border between identity and alterity. This narrative continues to function today, shaping Spanish identity in opposition to Muslim alterity, through renewed discourses aimed at exclusion. Although these dynamics reached their peak during Francoism, they continue to resonate today in the discourse of the far-right. Thus, it appears necessary to adopt a critical approach that allows us to understand the Reconquista as a continuously re-signified myth and enables us to reinterpret Spanish identity in pluralistic and inclusive terms.
Direction
Jiménez Esquinas, Guadalupe (Tutorships)
Jiménez Esquinas, Guadalupe (Tutorships)
Court
DOLDAN GARCIA, XOAN RAMON (Chairman)
CONDE SOTO, FRANCISCO (Secretary)
Donato Rodríguez, Javier de (Member)
DOLDAN GARCIA, XOAN RAMON (Chairman)
CONDE SOTO, FRANCISCO (Secretary)
Donato Rodríguez, Javier de (Member)
Cosmotechnics and Cosmopolitics: A reformulation of cosmopolitanism from Kant’s cosmopolitan conception to Yuk Hui’s technical cosmology
Authorship
E.P.B.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
E.P.B.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
Defense date
09.11.2025 17:30
09.11.2025 17:30
Summary
This research paper focuses on the reformulation of cosmopolitanism in light of new theories developed around this notion. It begins with the Enlightenment conception, recovered by Immanuel Kant from the Greek philosophical tradition, which is based on the idea of a cosmopolitan community governed by reason and a universal right to hospitality. The following section presents contemporary views of cosmopolitanism, specifically through the figures of Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, who both expand and challenge the original concept. The work culminates with the concept of cosmotechnics developed by the Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui. The central objective is to propose an updated reading of cosmopolitanism. Through the interpretation of the concept of cosmotechnics as a new politics of the cosmos, it becomes possible to articulate a form of cosmopolitanism that responds to the philosophical, political, ecological, and technological challenges of the present.
This research paper focuses on the reformulation of cosmopolitanism in light of new theories developed around this notion. It begins with the Enlightenment conception, recovered by Immanuel Kant from the Greek philosophical tradition, which is based on the idea of a cosmopolitan community governed by reason and a universal right to hospitality. The following section presents contemporary views of cosmopolitanism, specifically through the figures of Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, who both expand and challenge the original concept. The work culminates with the concept of cosmotechnics developed by the Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui. The central objective is to propose an updated reading of cosmopolitanism. Through the interpretation of the concept of cosmotechnics as a new politics of the cosmos, it becomes possible to articulate a form of cosmopolitanism that responds to the philosophical, political, ecological, and technological challenges of the present.
Direction
RABE , ANA MARIA DE LA CONCEPCION (Tutorships)
RABE , ANA MARIA DE LA CONCEPCION (Tutorships)
Court
AGIS VILLAVERDE, MARCELINO (Chairman)
PARCERO OUBIÑA, OSCAR (Secretary)
GARCIA SOTO, LUIS MODESTO (Member)
AGIS VILLAVERDE, MARCELINO (Chairman)
PARCERO OUBIÑA, OSCAR (Secretary)
GARCIA SOTO, LUIS MODESTO (Member)
Egg punk and hauntology: between nostalgia and subversion.
Authorship
P.J.S.L.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
P.J.S.L.
Master in Philosophy: Knowledge and Citizenship
Defense date
09.11.2025 17:30
09.11.2025 17:30
Summary
Egg punk is a musical movement that emerged in the 2010s, characterized by stylistic features such as a lo-fi sound, DIY (Do it yourself) and a subversive and humorous theme influenced by the Internet culture from which it was born, in which elements of nostalgia and the absurd are mixed. This movement is located in a fully current context, where cultural narratives are saturated, so there is a need for many artists for an ironic reinvention and a look at past decades. An analysis of the movement is proposed here that is based on the concept of hauntology, rescued by the philosopher and cultural critic Mark Fisher, who describes, briefly, a phenomenon in which the present is haunted by a past that never disappears, which generates, in the author's terms, an unattainable future that will never take place.In this sense, egg punk can be understood as a hauntological musical movement, as it revives these aesthetics of heavy metal in a distorted way, with a certain nostalgia that characterizes both this trend and much of the cultural production of recent years, and that allows us to point out, at the same time, the lack of expectations, economic stagnation, circular crises, the fall of narratives about progress, and, finally, the crisis of late capitalism that has been experienced in recent years, which this author discusses and which will be exemplified from this genre.Thus, this work will explore how egg punk does not only function as a form of nostalgia, but is also a form of cultural criticism, offering a way to understand the social tensions of the present, in a mix of subversion, humor and a reflection on the inability to overcome the past and a future that seems to have no place or can be imagined: can this disenchantment and this nostalgia help us think about the future? What are the implications of the context in which this movement arises? What might it be anticipating?
Egg punk is a musical movement that emerged in the 2010s, characterized by stylistic features such as a lo-fi sound, DIY (Do it yourself) and a subversive and humorous theme influenced by the Internet culture from which it was born, in which elements of nostalgia and the absurd are mixed. This movement is located in a fully current context, where cultural narratives are saturated, so there is a need for many artists for an ironic reinvention and a look at past decades. An analysis of the movement is proposed here that is based on the concept of hauntology, rescued by the philosopher and cultural critic Mark Fisher, who describes, briefly, a phenomenon in which the present is haunted by a past that never disappears, which generates, in the author's terms, an unattainable future that will never take place.In this sense, egg punk can be understood as a hauntological musical movement, as it revives these aesthetics of heavy metal in a distorted way, with a certain nostalgia that characterizes both this trend and much of the cultural production of recent years, and that allows us to point out, at the same time, the lack of expectations, economic stagnation, circular crises, the fall of narratives about progress, and, finally, the crisis of late capitalism that has been experienced in recent years, which this author discusses and which will be exemplified from this genre.Thus, this work will explore how egg punk does not only function as a form of nostalgia, but is also a form of cultural criticism, offering a way to understand the social tensions of the present, in a mix of subversion, humor and a reflection on the inability to overcome the past and a future that seems to have no place or can be imagined: can this disenchantment and this nostalgia help us think about the future? What are the implications of the context in which this movement arises? What might it be anticipating?
Direction
RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ, MIGUEL ANXO (Tutorships)
RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ, MIGUEL ANXO (Tutorships)
Court
DOLDAN GARCIA, XOAN RAMON (Chairman)
CONDE SOTO, FRANCISCO (Secretary)
Donato Rodríguez, Javier de (Member)
DOLDAN GARCIA, XOAN RAMON (Chairman)
CONDE SOTO, FRANCISCO (Secretary)
Donato Rodríguez, Javier de (Member)