Essays about: "Contemporary political thought"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Contemporary political thought.
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1. Neo-republicanism as a framework for a political theory of animal protection - An evaluation of Philip Pettit’s neo-republican theory of freedom and its potential for extending justice to non-human animals
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Non-human animals are often excluded from contemporary political theories, much to their detriment in terms of welfare and protection. The ‘political turn’ is a subset of animal ethicists concerned with moving beyond motivating moral status and instead discussing the politics of a shared human-animal society. READ MORE
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2. Deng Xiaoping’s Meta-Discursive Ideology for economic development in the Reform Period and the Departure from Mao Zedong Thought
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The rise of China and 1978-market reforms contrasts other post-socialist economies process of institutional and economic change. President Deng Xiaoping announced China’s continued commitment to socialism, yet his leadership is by some viewed to be the most radical social and economic transformation in contemporary Chinese history. READ MORE
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3. How European Welfare States perpetuate the Growth Imperative - And why Alternatives are needed
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : In industrial circles, in political parties, and in newspapers, there is seldom one reiterating issue that concerns the general public more than the situation of a national economy, as well as how to secure or to undo the practice of it. What is arguably one of the core principals of modern cultures, especially in European societies, not just being a nuclear unit in a bigger economy, but enacting and reenacting the social construct of a normative system a political state economy offers, is strangely overlooked by the majority. READ MORE
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4. Nature as a Political Enactment Within the Global Biodiversity Debate and a Plea for a Process-Inspired Transition Governance
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : A revolution is brewing within global biodiversity governance as attempts to govern and to deal with biodiversity loss have not led to any substantial results. The underlying drivers of biodiversity loss keep adding to the total ecological predicament which in turn sets in motion an epistemological paradigm shift (episteme) with a call for transformative change. READ MORE
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5. TheIranian Nexus: Peace as a Substantive and Complex Value in the History of Iran
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This study explores Iran’s political and cultural history in order to better understand the country’s current stance on international politics and peace. This study asks: what defines peace in Iranian discourse? To this end, this thesis employs a Foucauldian archaeological and genealogical methodology on historical research and contemporary primary sources. READ MORE
