Essays about: "Lina Hamberg Hjärtström"

Found 2 essays containing the words Lina Hamberg Hjärtström.

1. 1. Virtual Violence and Protection from Participation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Lina Hamberg Hjärtström; [2015]
   Keywords : National Action Plan for UN Security Council Resolution 1325 2000 ; protection; gender equality; posthumanist performativity; agential realism; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis studies protection as integral to security. Protection has been used to keep women from the ‘public sphere’ and abused by peacekeepers and patriarchs alike, suggesting that being protected is not synonymous with being safe but can cause violence and exclusion. READ MORE

3. 2. (Re)producing conflict-related sexual violence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Lina Hamberg Hjärtström; [2012]
   Keywords : conflict-related sexual violence; sexual violence; gender; femininity; masculinity; sex; power; discourse; UN; United Nations; feminism; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Despite several attempts, the UN have not been successful in ending conflict-related gender/ed sexual violence, even within the organisation. To explain the discrepancy between intentions and actions within the UN, gender and feminist theory on power and sexuality are used to map the mechanisms behind sexual violence, leading to postulations of both gender and power as performative and mutable. READ MORE