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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 45 uppsatser innehållade orden bare life.

1. 16. Traveling to Uncertainty : Unaccompanied minors, humanitarianism and “bare life” in the aftermath of the Greek refugee crisis

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Ana Feshta; [2020]
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   Sammanfattning : Abstract In the last years the refugee inflows towards Europe was striking, particularly in 2015 approximately 1 million refugees crossed the European borders, among the refugee population there were many children, amid those children there were also a special category; the unaccompanied children. The topic of this work is based on the highlighted issue of the unaccompanied minors in Greece. LÄS MER

3. 17. Att styra de döda : hjärndöda undantag och rätten att dödförklara

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Författare :Johan Jönsson; [2019]
   Nyckelord :biopolitics; biopower; medicinal history; critical theory; death; transplantation; exception; control; truth-telling; governmentality;

   Sammanfattning : This study shows how the official death-declaring of bodies in 20th century Sweden became inextricably linked to the modulation of a population’s health through transplantations. In its critical examination of the terms of possibility to declare a body as dead in the latter half of 20th century Sweden the study not only relates to medicinal humanities and studies in contemporary biopolitics but, more broadly, the diverse field of Queer Death Studies. LÄS MER

4. 18. 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

5. 19. Pained Body, Performed Madness: A Study of the Bio-political Philosophy in He Yunchang's Performance Art

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Författare :Chenru Xue; [2018]
   Nyckelord :He Yunchang; Performance art; Homo Sacer; State of Exception; Madness; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture; Performing Arts;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the considerations of bare life in He Yunchang’s performance arts, based on two of his works, One-meter democracy (2010) and Golden Sunlight (1999). I make a deep analysis of the images and archives of the two performances, about the artist’s artistic method of using visual signs. LÄS MER

7. 20. Experiencing the “worst period of her life” : A critical analysis of women´s portrayal in humanitarian aid campaigns

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Emy Lynch; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Humanitarian action; humanitarian aid campaigns; women´s representation; bare life; Agamben; the DRC;

   Sammanfattning : Women and children are often the focus of humanitarian aid campaigns, generally considered to be the main victims of humanitarian emergencies. Previous research has explored the portrayal of victims within humanitarian action, focusing on humanitarian images, and how humanitarianism portrays the refugee. LÄS MER