Essays about: "Norm Critique"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Norm Critique.

  1. 1. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Christopher Cowan; [2022]
    Keywords : mainstream vulnerability analysis; disaster risk reduction; LGBTQ ; sexual and gender diversity; queer theory; queer legal theory; heteronormativity; subordination; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Climate change and hazard events pose an existential threat to human rights. Hazard events were traditionally viewed as ‘natural disasters’ which were beyond our control and the people caught up in them were unfortunate victims to the unstoppable force of nature. READ MORE

  3. 2. Sex Education 101 : Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in the Revised Swedish High School Curriculum. An Intersectional Critique

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Effrosyni (Froso) Terzoglou; [2021]
    Keywords : gender; sexuality; body image; intersectionality; sex education; feminist and norm-critical pedagogy; pedagogi; sex; Skolverket; utbildning; gymnasiet;

    Abstract : In February 2021 the Swedish government announced the revision of curricula in every educational level, to correspond to the Sexuality, Consent and Relationships knowledge field. The purpose of this research is to explore the ways the Swedish high school curriculum, with the support of Skolverket’s webpage, has integrated notions of a) gender and sexuality, b) body in connection to sexuality and c) ethnicity, concerning students. READ MORE

  4. 3. Resisting work : Collective perspectives onequality and liberation

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Cameron Fetterplace; [2021]
    Keywords : wage-work; resistance; social reproduction; qualitative surveys; feminist work-critique;

    Abstract : Wage work, as a norm and institution, is more and more obviously incapable of fulfilling its promises: for gender equality, social integration, meaning, or even equitably meeting our basic needs. Yet, despite struggles for more, less, or better work, there is minimal public protest against work itself. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Violent Law of Human Rights: An attempt to analyze the problematic nexus between law, rebellion, and human rights discourse

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Ibrahim Kibar; [2021]
    Keywords : Rebellion; Legitimacy; Human Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Rebellion is a seldom accomplished attempt aiming to bend the law to counterweight the sovereign power or to overthrow the sovereign in a given legal order. Either way, it contests the boundaries of the law. The thesis at hand aims to investigate the problematic relationship between the human rights discourse, law and the concept of rebellion. READ MORE

  6. 5. Justifying Legal Rights of Nature : An ideational analysis of the Te Awa Tupua Bill debate in New Zealand

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Nanna Friman; [2021]
    Keywords : Rights of Nature; Legal Personality; Whanganui;

    Abstract : In 2017, the Whanganui River in New Zealand gained legal personality, a potentially norm-breaking legislation that could challenge society to view nature differently. It is thus important to understand the reasons and justifications behind such a decision. READ MORE