Essays about: "historical truth"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 35 essays containing the words historical truth.

1. 6. Past, Present and Future : History, Memory Politics and the Russo- Ukrainian War in Official Russian Discourse 2021-2023

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Marcus Krantz; [2023]
   Keywords : Russia; Ukraine; history; memory politics; framing; political communication.;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates what narrative themes are found in the historical framing used in Russian political communication in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War from December 2021 to February 2023. Using a qualitative content analysis in combination with framing theory, transcripts of the Russian president’s political communications and the Russian Foreign Ministry’s press briefings are analysed as to the main narrative themes found within concerning the Russo-Ukrainian war. READ MORE

3. 7. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

4. 8. The economy of knowledge in migration policy : Understanding Georgia's migration policy within the modern world system

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

   Author : Tamar Nadibaidze; [2022]
   Keywords : migration; neoliberal rationality; knowledge paradigms; truth claims; best practices; governance; power; democracy; civil society; Georgia; EU.;

   Abstract : The study aims to analyze Georgia's Migration Strategy 2021-2030 and its elaboration process within a multi-stakeholder format. The Strategy along with the annual action plans and a logic framework, sets a state policy on migration. READ MORE

5. 9. 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

6. 10. Evaluation of Crop Water Use and Rice Yield Using Remote Sensing and AquaCrop Model for Three Irrigation Schemes in Sri Lanka

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Veronika Widengren; [2022]
   Keywords : WaPOR; remote sensing; evapotranspiration; crop water productivity; irrigation scheme; AquaCrop; Malwathu Oya; Sri Lanka; paddy rice; humid tropical climate; WaPOR; fjärranalys; evapotranspiration; vattenproduktivitet; bevattningssystem; AquaCrop; Malwathu Oya; Sri Lanka; ris; fuktigt tropiskt klimat;

   Abstract : With a changing climate and an increased competition over water resources for agricultural irrigation, the need to improve crop water productivity using time and cost-efficient methodologies have become critically important. The Malwathu Oya river basin in Sri Lanka is struggling with water scarcity, which threatens food security and the income of farmers. READ MORE