Essays about: "Borders and Boundaries"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 essays containing the words Borders and Boundaries.
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1. National Heroes, Digital Soldiers, Vulnerable Children and all the Others: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Videos Communicating the QAnon Conspiracy Theory
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : This thesis analyses the making of Us and Them in videos communicating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which have been circulating on online social forums. For this purpose, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis is used, together with Sara Ahmed’s cultural theory of emotions. READ MORE
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2. Island of the Roses : A case study of the ontological threat of a micronation
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : The discipline of OSS’s (Ontological Security Studies) incorporation in Security Studies has helped unravel state behaviour which other IR-theories (International Relations) have struggled to make sense of. Going beyond the physical security concerns which characterise the traditional literature, OSS has up until recently consistently emphasised the psychological threat of harm to the “self” – emanating from a point of departure which renders it disembodied. READ MORE
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3. Övergångar : att göra gränser till möten i det urbana landskapet
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : I det urbana landskapet finns många övergångar mellan fysiska objekt som kan skapa gränser. Exempel på dessa skulle kunna vara att vattnet i en kanal är skilt från promenadstråket som ligger flera meter högre upp, den vackra planteringen får beskådas från gatan men erbjuder ingen plats eller möjlighet att vistas i, en park avgränsas tvärt från en trafikerad bilväg med ett stort staket eller en klippt häck. READ MORE
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4. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE
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5. Intergroup contact beyond borders and trauma : A case study of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : This thesis contributes to the literature on intergroup contact by exploring the long-term impact of grassroots efforts on members of majority and minority groups involved in an intractable conflict. In such circumstances, the conflict parties’ existential survival is perceived to be at stake, which results in salient group boundaries magnified by competing memories of collective trauma. READ MORE
