Essays about: "politicised identities"

Found 3 essays containing the words politicised identities.

  1. 1. Employing Genocide : Narratives, Ethnic Identities, and Political Legitimacy in Post-Genocide Rwanda

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Gustaf Hallström; [2023]
    Keywords : Rwanda; Genocide; narratives; memory politics; ethnicity; identity; collective identity; power struggle; Paul Kagame; social psychology; collective memory; politics of memory; memory consumers; politicised identities; reconciliation; official narratives;

    Abstract : This thesis offers an analysis on the memory politics in post-genocide Rwanda, and examines the official narratives regarding history, ethnicity, and identity in order to analyse how political elites in Rwanda politicises collective identity and transforms the social environment of its population through establishing power struggles. By adopting of a qualitative content analysis, the thesis focuses on the speeches by the president Paul Kagame held at the start of each year’s commemorative event of the genocide, known as Kwibuka. READ MORE

  2. 2. Individual Consumer Identity Formation in a Politicised World

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Marine Hakobyan; Undine Himmelsbach; [2022]
    Keywords : Identity Formation; Consumer Identity; Political Consumerism; Everyday Political Consumption; Consumer Resistance; Sustainable Consumption; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Thesis Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of how consumers build their individual identities through everyday political acts of consumption. Methodology & Empirical Data: This study is conducted based on a social constructionist worldview with a qualitative research design, adopting an inductive approach. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Church-State Symphonia Resounding Through Third Rome : The Strive for Transnational Religious Identity and Unity

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Zoran Zivkovic; [2020]
    Keywords : identity; religion; spirituality; Orthodoxy; Russian Orthodox Church; Russia; Soft power; Ukraine and Belarus;

    Abstract : The Soviet Union population was unified under the shared belief of being a part of a common goal for proletarianism, in disregard of religion. These sentiments were prevalent up until the union’s dissolution. Something which created an identity void, reinvigorating the need for spirituality. READ MORE