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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 55 uppsatser innehållade ordet Agamben.

  1. 16. The Agony of The Supermax Confinement: Indefinite Isolation in The Name of Security

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Malak Taleb; [2019]
    Nyckelord :supermax prisons; solitary confinement; human rights; torture; Foucault; Agamben; Goffman;

    Sammanfattning : The main area of inquiry for this thesis is super-maximum security prisons or as commonly referred to “supermax prisons”. First, the thesis traces the shift from the use of physical punishment to the use of disciplinary measures in punitive institutions and the development of the modern prison until it reaches its latest form as embodied in the supermax model. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Situating the human rights project within the state of emergency; an examination of biopolitical theory

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Sasha Brown; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Human Rights; Foucault; Agamben; State of Emergency; Biopolitics;

    Sammanfattning : The state of emergency presents an array of problems for the protection of human rights. Foucault’s biopolitics and Agamben’s concept of the state of exception have been instrumental in the formulation of analyses which seek to understand the full extent of this area of tension. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Fallet Lilja : En studie om diskurs och medierepresentation av våld inom ishockey

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Felix Pettersson; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Sports; discourse; discourse theory; communication; sports media; Laclau and Mouffe; Agamben; Homo Sacer; State of Exception; Jakob Lilja;

    Sammanfattning : Title: The Lilja case – a study about discourse and media representations of violence within ice hockey The purpose of this study is to examine the discourses that influenced the debate in Swedish sport media around the professional ice hockey player Jakob Liljas 10-game suspension and subsequent assault conviction by the Swedish legal system. The aim is to see how Lilja’s violence was defined and what voices were the most prominent in the debate. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Bare Life of Unaccompanied Children: A Critique on the Human Rights State-Centrism and the Right to Asylum in Sweden

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Författare :Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani; [2018-09-25]
    Nyckelord :state-centrism; the right to asylum; Sweden’s U-turn asylum policy; rightlessness; zone of indistinction; bare life; the paradox of human rights; the sovereign; policy analysis; unaccompanied Afghanistanian children; bio-politics;

    Sammanfattning : The question of asylum seekers and refugee rights is one of the main examples which reveals the paradox of the citizen rights and human rights. This thesis aims to analyse the U-turn asylum policy of Sweden regarding unaccompanied minors from a critical perspective in this regard. LÄS MER

  7. 20. (Un)exceptional Measures Against a Housing Crisis - A Study of Temporary Housing in Sweden

    Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Dragan Kusevski; [2018]
    Nyckelord :housing crisis; temporary housing; state of exception; planning and building law;

    Sammanfattning : The lack of affordable housing has been a long-standing problem for many cities in Sweden, and the recent refugee crisis has only highlighted the difficulties for economically weaker constituencies to enter and sustain in the existing housing market. The pressing situation and a new law, obligating the municipalities to supply housing, forced the authorities to look for solutions. LÄS MER