Essays about: "Cultural Antagonism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Cultural Antagonism.
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1. What’s the story? A cross-societal ecolinguistic analysis of digital newspaper articles reporting on the US military presence in Okinawa, Japan
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Social and environmental issues associated with US military presence in Okinawa have adversely affected island residents for years and requires urgent attention. However, with actors with different beliefs and values involved, the search for sustainable solutions is elusive. READ MORE
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2. The Emergence of Nation Sub-Branding: A Case Study on the Discourses of 'The National Developer of Egypt'
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationAbstract : This thesis explores the emerging strategy of nation sub-branding and critically argues for the domestic implications it has on national identities and the falsely promoted tradition of social justice. The study situates itself within the critical cultural stream of nation branding research, rejecting, however, prior scholarly presumption that a segmented nation brand could mean less marginalization. READ MORE
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3. From the Paris Conference to the Paris of the Yellow Vests: a laboratory for characterizing transition profiles and cultural repertoires to apprehend social and perceptive conflicts of sustainability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This paper contributes to sustainability transitions studies in delivering stronger focus and relevance on culture and discursive features to apprehend social resistances towards transition agendas, and the unprecedented emergence of the challenging antagonism of the ‘end of the world’ versus ‘the end of the month’ revealed by the case study of the Yellow Vests crisis in France since November 2018. Aiming at opening the door to broader “ontologies” to transition frameworks, while supporting narrower profiles for the formulation of transition strategies, the paper initiates a narrative analysis and a tracing process to assess how the universal resolve of the 2015 Paris Conference and its established legitimacy of the sustainability discourse has been further contested by the Yellow Vests, and their fractured framing that would permeate the national public cognitive stage. READ MORE
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4. A Soft Organizational Culture and its Impact on Performance Management - the Case of a Unique Consultancy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : We conducted a qualitative study in the consultancy SoftConsulting and took an interpretative and critical perspective to analyze our findings. The main purpose of this thesis is to develop a more nuanced understanding of consultancies in terms of organizational culture and of consultants’ identity and motivation. READ MORE
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5. Enabling Communication about Gender Equality, Sex and Sexuality for Unaccompanied Refugee Children : To Evade Antagonism concerning Swedes’ Right to be Equals, Sexual and Gay by Accepting and Acknowledging Cultural Dissimilarities
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : This study researches how communication provided by supervisors working in homes for unaccompanied refugee children about gender equality, sex and sexuality should be conducted and executed for children acclimating to Sweden. This studied topic was founded in the desire expressed by RFSU to demand sexual education for unaccompanied refugee children coming to Sweden. READ MORE
