Sökning: "Nodal points"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 52 uppsatser innehållade orden Nodal points.

  1. 6. Det narrativa kriget om nationens själ : En studie om presidentvalskampanjen i USA år 2020, identitet, och sammankopplingen av interna och externa andre

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Sara Norbäck; [2021]
    Nyckelord :USA; Biden; Trump; Kina; Ryssland; Identitet; Narrativ; Exceptionalism; Foucault; Laclau; Mouffe; Solomon; Den Andre; President; Val; Demokraterna; Republikanerna; Noder; Hegemoni;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores how presidential candidates during the 2020 American election were tied to external others, taking the shape of China and Russia. The study argues that an identity perspective becomes fruitful for addressing the research problem, as it becomes a matter of who "we" as a nation are. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Nirvana via App-store : Hur Sam Harris ompaketerat dzogchen-buddhism till sekulär mindfulness

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

    Författare :Jan Wallentin; [2021]
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    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to study how Sam Harris has reinterpreted the meaning of some central buddhist concepts to fit within the contemporary discourse of secular mindfulness. To do this, the discourse analytical method of Laclau and Mouffe has been used. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Understanding new expectations for democratic environmental governance : a policy analysis of an activist movement in the South-East of France

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Författare :Léna Belly-le Guilloux; [2021]
    Nyckelord :governance; democracy; activism; Democratic Innovation; civil society; participation; deliberative democracy; political trust; democracy crisis;

    Sammanfattning : This paper is based at the nodal points of several phenomena, including political distrust in France, a European trend supporting public participation, a failed experiment of citizen assembly in France, and the organisation of a citizen collective to advocate for a replication of a similar citizen assembly, at the regional level, by environmental activists. In this context, I have conducted a policy analysis focusing particularly on the activist movement with the aim to provide insights into new expectations for democratic governance of environmental resources. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Representation of Gender Roles, Femininity and Subject Positions in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills : Erika Girardi/Erika Jayne

    Kandidat-uppsats,

    Författare :Natalie Soyege; Sofia Nilsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Gender Roles; Reality; Feminism; Femininity; Representation; Television;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a discursive analysis of the representation of the person Erika Girardi within the Reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. With a theoretical perspective anchored within Judith Butler’s (1999) theory of performativity and Beverley Skeggs (2000) research of class within feminism. LÄS MER

  7. 10. ”Tänk på din plats”: En kvalitativ forskningsstudie om separatistiska evenemangs relation till gränsdragningar och trygghetsskapande

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Moa Björkman Jones; [2020]
    Nyckelord :separatism; safer spaces; boundary judgements; discourse; feminism; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This paper examines the creation of safer spaces and discourse around exclusion among four feminist organizations that practice separatism. With the aim to make visible how boundaries are drawn and negotiated and how (un)safety is understood in this process, I conduct in-depth interviews with activists from these organizations. LÄS MER