Essays about: "how language can be political"

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  1. 1. The suffocating enjoyment of the Other: An ideology critique of enjoyment in the mediatisation of the climate crisis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Gabriel Bintley; [2024]
    Keywords : Enjoyment; Jouissance; the Other; Climate Crisis; Lacan; Žižek; Environmental Politics; Ideology Critique; Njutning; Jouissance; Den Andre; Klimatkrisen; Lacan; Žižek; Miljöpolitik; Ideologikritik;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how the Lacanian concept of ‘the enjoyment of the Other’ (la jouissance de l’Autre) can be applied to break open normative understandings of the political factors shaping the climate crisis deadlock. The principal aim is to investigate how ostensibly disconnected environmental debates may be regarded as linked by an economy of enjoyment, more precisely by the promise of enjoyment by which the subject is libidinally attached to an ideology. READ MORE

  2. 2. THE EUROPEAN UNION'S ROLE EXPECTATIONS OF CHINA. A qualitative content analysis of the European Union’s role expectations of China from 2003 - 2023

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Andreas Ternheim; [2023-10-30]
    Keywords : International relations; the EU; China; Role Theory; Policy analysis;

    Abstract : This study is investigating the European Union’s political approach to the People’s Republic of China by the application of role theory. The objective of the study is to analyze how the EU’s role expectations of China have developed during the time period of 2003-2023, and to anchor these changes in geopolitical events to understand when the changes in role expectations occurred. READ MORE

  3. 3. Vargen – ”en syndabock för större socioekonomiska problem” : en kritisk diskursanalys av nyhetsrapporteringen av varg på lokal och rikstäckande nivå

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Märtha Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : diskursanalys; landsbygd; media; varg; representationer;

    Abstract : Uppsatsens syfte är att kritisk granska och analysera nyhetsrapporteringen av rovdjursdiskursen för att urskilja hur olika maktstrukturer mellan stad och land syns och reproduceras i porträtteringen. Särskilt fokus ligger i den mediala bilden av landsbygd i vargfrågan där traditionella diskurser om landsbygd kan reproduceras snarare än utmanas i frågan. READ MORE

  4. 4. The concept of civilians in terrorist thought : A multiple case study on the discourse of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Rebecca Johansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Terrorist Discourse; Civilians; Critical Discourse Analysis; Al-Qaeda; Islamic State;

    Abstract : Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, studies on Islamic terrorism and terrorist ideology dramatically increased. Although the term has been difficult to define, "terrorism" is commonly used to describe unlawful violence against civilians for political aims. READ MORE

  5. 5. Exploration of using Twitter data to predict Swedish political opinion polls with neural networks

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Alexander Gren; Klara Lundgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the possibility of using deep learning techniques to mine opinions on Twitter, with the objective to predict the political opinion distribution in Sweden. Different methods of gathering and annotating training data are evaluated to achieve accurate and reliable predictions. READ MORE