Essays about: "New social movements"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 173 essays containing the words New social movements.

1. 16. White Nicotine Pouches of Freedom?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

   Author : Malin Nilsson; Emmy Nordin; [2022]
   Keywords : Femvertising; Greenwashing; Healthwashing; Intention to Purchase; White Nicotine Pouches; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In today’s digital climate, consumers are constantly exposed to marketing and communication from companies and organisations. The increase in marketing has subsequently led to the birth of new, and in some cases, misleading advertising strategies, such as Greenwashing and Healthwashing. READ MORE

3. 17. New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Lisa Pier; [2022]
   Keywords : extractivism; development; resistance; re-imagination; decoloniality; alternatives; self-determination; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist resistance. READ MORE

4. 18. Of Those Who Dared to Dream: Student Activists’ Contestation of Hierarchy in the Thai Youth-led Protest

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Lara A. Franken; [2022]
   Keywords : Student Protests; Student Activists; Thai Hierarchy; Monarchy; Junta; Protest Symbols; Thailand; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the perception of hierarchy and how student activists have challenged hierarchy in the youth-led protests through attacking symbols of hierarchy and authority. Hereby, the research is based on in-depth interviews with student activists form Bangkok, linking it to the contemporary and historical development of the Thai social order. READ MORE

5. 19. Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Leander Clément; [2022]
   Keywords : Black Lives Matter; Protest Paradigm; Moral Foundations Theory; police brutality; racial bias; news coverage; CNN; Fox News; New York Times; framing; legal culture; socio-legal; sociology of law; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. READ MORE

6. 20. The Problem of Establishing Consent - A critical policy analysis of how the problem of establishing consent and voluntariness has changed in Swedish rape judgements after the consent law.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Linnea Fransson; [2022]
   Keywords : Consent; Voluntariness; Rape; Sweden; Critical policy analysis; Judgement; Legal discourse; Problematization; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse and understand how the problem of establishing consent is represented in Swedish rape judgements before and after the consent-based legislation was enacted in 2018. The purpose is to elucidate differences in the court’s assessment of consent, as well as generate an understanding of how the court may maintain and reproduce problematic elements which are stereotyped in the legal assessment. READ MORE