Essays about: "Activists"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 324 essays containing the word Activists.

  1. 1. Pipelines, provocateurs and pacifists

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johanna Spetz; [2024]
    Keywords : Climate change; climate activism; violence; nonviolence; deontology; consequentialism; values; ethics.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Would you fight climate change at any cost? In the modern day debate, opinions on the appropriate measures to draw attention to the climate crisis are divided. When conventional methods fall short, some activists resort to more assertive approaches. READ MORE

  2. 2. How Storytelling Drives Activism and Resistance? : Mobilization behind the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Suad Sadullahi; [2024]
    Keywords : Resistance; SLAPP; Activism; Space; Storytelling; Power relations; Mobilization;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the stories of activists in Kosovo and why and how they resist in a context where powerful actors increasingly use strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) as a new mode of exercising power. The thesis seeks to understand resistance and new ways of exercising resistance in the context of SLAPP. READ MORE

  3. 3. Clean Water and Sanitation in regard to Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia and Ethiopia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Maja Dolk; Noomi Lindh; [2024]
    Keywords : Female Genital Mutilation FGM ; Water; Sanitation; Somalia; Ethiopia; Hygiene;

    Abstract : This essay examines the prevalent practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Ethiopia and Somalia, focusing on the multifaceted consequences faced by women who undergo this procedure. FGM, deeply entrenched in the cultural fabric of both nations. READ MORE

  4. 4. Environmental Activism- a Threatening Outside? A Discourse Analysis of a Non-violent Civil Disobedience Protest in Stockholm, Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Kandra Wahlgren Eales; [2023-11-08]
    Keywords : securitisation; discourse analysis; non-violent civil disobedience; poststructuralism; hegemony; deliberative democracy; neoliberalism;

    Abstract : This study examines the identity construction of environmental activists in discourse following a political protest in Stockholm, Sweden. More specifically it aims to understand how environmental activists have been subjected to securitisation, and what underlying ideology supports this perception. READ MORE

  5. 5. Why the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004-2021) Collapsed? The Path to Peace after the Rise of the Taliban 2.0

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sultan Ghulam Dastgir Sani; [2023-06-20]
    Keywords : Collapsed State; The Role of Parliamentarians in Peace Processes; Autocratization; Fundamentalism; Armed Politics;

    Abstract : With the fall of Kabul on 15 August 2021, Afghanistan has been back to where it was in 2001, a closed autocracy ruled by the Taliban. However, it was required to search out why the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2004-2021 collapsed. READ MORE