Essays about: "boundary-making"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word boundary-making.

1. 1. "The Swedish road is not ours" : Narrating the Finnish community of value in parliamentary debate on youth crime and street gangs

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Senni Pulkkinen; [2024]
   Keywords : Finland; community of value; boundary-making; strategic narrative analysis; parliamentary discourse;

   Abstract : Taking the form of a case study on an interpellation on ‘youth crime and street gangs’ and its consideration in plenary debate in the Finnish Parliament in December 2022, the purpose of this study is to examine how politicians narrate the Finnish community of value and its boundaries. The methodological framework of this study consists of strategic narrative analysis, poststructural and critical research theoretical underpinnings, and the operationalization of the concept of ‘community of value’. READ MORE

3. 2. ‘Safeguarding moral decency’: A Queer discourse analysis of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s sexualized discourses and boundary-making in the Russian-Ukraine war

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Johanna Rasmusson; [2023]
   Keywords : Putin; discourse; gender identity; sexuality; national belonging; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates discourses on sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression in national addresses performed by Russian President Vladimir Putin since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It applies an embedded approach of Critical Discourse Analysis and Queer Linguistics to disseminate how such discourses are produced by Putin in the war. READ MORE

4. 3. Civil Society and Democratic Ideas : A Case Study Based on Sweden’s Young-Muslims, A Court-Verdict

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Ifrah-Degmo Mohamed; [2018]
   Keywords : Keywords: Power; Democratic ideas; Trust; Institutional Decision-Making Social Capital; Discriminating-Taste; Human Rights –Principles; Civil society and Equality;

   Abstract : Abstract   This thesis explores the role of civil society organizations and the democratic participation of minority groups in Sweden. It is based on an analysis and interpretation of a major court decision that denied government support (MUCF) for a Muslim Youth organization (SUM) in 2016. READ MORE

5. 4. Resisting Assimilation: Ethnic Boundary Maintenance Among Jews in Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : David Grobgeld; [2017]
   Keywords : Ethnic boundaries; Ethnic identity; Jews; Swedish Jews; Andreas Wimmer; Antisemitism; Holocaust;

   Abstract : This paper applies the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with Swedish Jews. Wimmer’s theory holds that ethnic conflict and persecution routinizes and entrenches perceptions of ethnic difference; I argue that the antisemitic persecutions of the 20th century has entrenched the perception of the ethnic distinctiveness of Jews among Jews themselves. READ MORE

6. 5. Uyghur Identity: Contestation and Construction of Identity in a Conflict Setting

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Fanny Olson; [2015-09-14]
   Keywords : Xinjiang Conflict; China; Uyghur; Identity; Text Analysis;

   Abstract : This study explores and discusses the dynamics of identity in conflict through examining Uyghur collective identity in the specific context of China as an emerging power. Particular attention is paid to how this identity is constructed and contested by different actors of the Xinjiang Conflict. READ MORE