Essays about: "political genealogy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words political genealogy.

  1. 1. "Life is better when you girlboss together" : Building a Safe Space Within the Digital Sphere, a Case Study

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Maylis Aledo; [2023]
    Keywords : Girlhood; Girl Culture; Girl Bloggin; Discord; Social Media; Lana Del Rey; Popular Culture;

    Abstract : The study is located in feminist studies through the lens of cultural theory, more specifically in the area of "Girlhood studies", developed in the 1990s. The development of the field correlates with the rise of cultural goods targeted at girls: movies, music, and magazines as well as the development of teenagehood as an identity of its own right. READ MORE

  3. 2. Can Video Game's Invincible Protagonist Beat Capitalism? : A political genealogy through Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Leo Springfield; [2022]
    Keywords : Video Games; Capitalism; Capitalist Realism; Science Fiction; Marxism; Politics; Deconstructionism; Post-Humanism; Creativity; Nietzsche;

    Abstract : The thesis is a meta-narrative discourse regarding the subversion in the representation of late capitalist realism. Through a post-humanist Marxist perspective, it connects three video game industry’s favorites with the ultimate question of capitalism: Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium‪‬. READ MORE

  4. 3. The (im)possible and (un)desirable climate politics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Linn Brolin; [2021]
    Keywords : The European Green Deal; Climate Change; Climate Politics; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study is to examine how the European Green Deal shapes and constrains what is considered possible and desirable in order to tackle the climate crisis. More specifically, the objective is to expose its underlying assumptions, interrogate what is taken for granted and left unproblematic. READ MORE

  5. 4. Evidence of the Benevolent State? : The Case of the R2P

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Alexander Gaber; [2017]
    Keywords : English School on International Relations; genealogy; justice; order; pluralism; R2P; solidarism; sovereignty.;

    Abstract : Master thesis in Political Science by Alexander Gaber, 2015, ‘Evidence of the BenevolentState?- The Case of the R2P’ The study sets out to analyze the validity of the soldiarist prescriptive hypothesis that a shared understanding amongst the society of states can induce a circumstance where states will act selflessly by willingly subordinating their rights and sovereign prerogatives for the sake of individual rights. For this purpose the R2P legal doctrine is analyzed genealogically to generate an inference on if the dominant consensus within the society of states on the doctrine has generated this circumstance. READ MORE

  6. 5. Governing the "Enough" in a Warming World : The Discourse of Sufficiency from a Climate Governmentality Perspective

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

    Author : Michael Deflorian; [2015]
    Keywords : governmentality; climate change; climate governmentality; sufficiency; degrowth; discourse analysis; problematization; political genealogy;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the discourse of “sufficiency” as a response to the question of how government should be achieved in times of climate change. Sufficiency implies the critique of the imperative of economic growth and a return to a “sufficient” degree of consumption and partial subsistence in order to reach qualitative well-being. READ MORE