Essays about: "identity reconstruction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 essays containing the words identity reconstruction.

  1. 1. Stigmatization and its overshadow on urban green spaces in Gottsunda : the study of a segregated suburban area where existing green spaces are fading away

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

    Author : Mashiat Raisa; [2023]
    Keywords : Gottsunda; stigmatization; segregation; green spaces; marginalized; crime; whiteness; planning; redevelopment;

    Abstract : In this modern era, when we are living in a society surrounded by advanced science and technology on the one hand, stigmatization as a form of social injustice is very much evident and still increasing in the social landscape on the other hand. In this thesis, I investigate the ongoing trend of redevelopment and densification projects in the Swedish context, explicitly targeting the marginalized neighborhoods in a Million Program housing areas built after the post-war period. READ MORE

  2. 2. Armenia between Russia and the West : Realpolitik and Identity Reconstruction in PM Pashinyan's Tweets

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Henry Wathen; [2023]
    Keywords : Armenia; identity; foreign policy; Twitter; Nikol Pashinyan;

    Abstract : My research is focused on the relation between the foreign policy vector and national identity as projected by Armenia’s Prime Minister (PM) Nikol Pashinyan in the public sphere. This study is a search for expressions of ‘sameness’ and allegiance in the geopolitical balancing and reconstruction of Armenia’s foreign policy narrative, ideology and identity. READ MORE

  3. 3. From Dawn to Dusk: studying the origin of the Islamic fivefold daily liturgy in the Qur’ān

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Davide de Francesco; [2023]
    Keywords : Islam; prayer; Qur anic studies; Qur anic exegeses; Christianity; Judaism; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Despite prayer being one of the most central tenets of Islam, this subject has drawn the attention of surprisingly little scholarship, especially when it comes to studying its origin against pre-Islamic analogues. Thus, this thesis proposes a reconstruction of the very early history of the fivefold daily Islamic liturgy, attempting also to weigh the extent of the influence that pre-Islamic religions, primarily Middle Eastern Christianity and Judaism, might have had in its development. READ MORE

  4. 4. Decolonising Digital Design in Humanitarian Governance : A Case Study of the UNHCR’s Intervention in the Rohingya Refugee Emergency

    University essay from

    Author : Symone McCollin-Norris; [2022]
    Keywords : digitalisation; digital design; humanitarian governance; refugee management; public policy analysis; problem-questioning; UNHCR; Post Colonialism;

    Abstract : The impacts and influences of globalised digitalisation has increased its presence within the political structures of both international economic and international security regimes, and the rise of e-governance systems and digital security technology has probed IR scholarship to study this policy shift from traditional forms of governance to digital ones. Less considered here is how digitalisation has been extended to the international humanitarian governance regime. READ MORE

  5. 5. Reconstructing Ancient Chinese Cultural Memory in the Context of Xianxia TV Drama

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Yujuan Jing; [2021]
    Keywords : Xianxia; Chinese culture; cultural memory; media memories; a ritual view of communication; culture industry; participatory culture; fandom; popular culture;

    Abstract : This study explores how Chinese ancient cultural memory is constructed, and specifically how it is reconstructed through Chinese Xianxia TV dramas during the past five years. Ancient Chinese culture has become a hit in Chinese popular culture today, in which Xianxia TV dramas draw the biggest audiences. READ MORE