Sökning: "Master signifiers"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden Master signifiers.

  1. 1. USA - Ett splittrat land? : En diskursiv fallstudie av politiska polariseringar i USA

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Fredrik Berndtsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Polarization; Master signifiers; Emotions; American Exceptionalism; Representation; Identity; Confrontation;

    Sammanfattning : The situation in the U.S. domestic politics has by media been presented that large groups of citizens are divided in the political arena. Today many scholars in the field of international relations tend to describe the political climate in the United States, between democrats and republicans as polarized and towards confrontation. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Visualizing a better city : – How the city portrays a technological marvel as means to enter the future

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier

    Författare :Jan Fritz-Patrik Ankarbåge; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Visualization; Actor-network theory; Enrollment; Discourse; Norrköping;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores how the center ’Visualisering C’ in Norrköping municipality ties into an actor-network that includes Linköping University, Norrköping municipality and Region Östergötland. The purpose was to discern how the master signifier was ‘development’ was constructed and connected within the discursive field with differencing actors with the Visualisering C as a focal point for the actors. LÄS MER

  4. 3. WHO ARE STARGAZERS? A discourse analysis of the target group

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Mika Segerström; [2016-02-19]
    Nyckelord :Japanese; Astronomy; Discourse theory; Stargazing; Gathering; Target group; Master signifier;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the intended target group of a Japanese stargazing guide book through a discourse analysis of the translations of relevant segments in the material. The aim of the study has been to determine who the reader and the participants are, based on how they are described in the book. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Den önskvärda väljaren - Om frågan att sänka rösträttsåldern till 16 år

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Oscar Waldner; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Mouffe; Laclau; Cruikshank; discourse theory; citizen-subject; voting age; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to produce a discourse analysis, inspired by theorists Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe, of the debate in written media between 2005 and 2015 on lowering the voting age in Sweden to 16 years. Influenced by Barbara Cruikshank’s ideas of the citizen-subject, the author asks two questions; how a differential chain of equivalence can be used to explain the discursive construction of the citizen-subject; and what discursive obstacles are preventing a lowering of the voting age to 16 years? The thesis concludes that there is a series of generally considered criteria, either connected to individual ideals of maturity or collective ideals of political involvement. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "They know very well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it" : Turkish Cittaslow towns of Gökçeada and Halfeti

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Författare :Gökhan Gülbandilar; [2015]
    Nyckelord :master signifier; Gökçeada; Halfeti; Cittaslow; sustainability science; Lacan; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Today a majority of the world’s population is living in urban areas and this trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Globalization plays a key role in the expansion of urban areas as well as urban-related social, economic and environmental problems. LÄS MER