Essays about: "Dictatorship"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 essays containing the word Dictatorship.

  1. 1. Digging up memory : suppressed objects during the dictatorship in Chile 1973–1990

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

    Author : Marcela Vera Oliva; [2023]
    Keywords : Materiality; agency; memory; counter-memory; Chile; dictatorship; Materialitet; agency; minne; counter-memory; Chile; diktatur;

    Abstract : This work deals with objects suppressed by individual people after the 1973 coup in Chile, due to the repression exerted by the installed civic-military dictatorship. It collects the memories of those who had to get rid of compromising objects to save their lives, pointing out the strategies chosen for this purpose, as well as the places to carry them out. READ MORE

  3. 2. Investigating the Role of Media and Civil Society in Gambia’s Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Nyimasata Sanneh; [2023]
    Keywords : Democracy; Dictatorship; Civil Society; Media; Transition; Authoritarian; The Gambia;

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  4. 3. Facing the Friction of a Totalitarian Government : A critical reading of Orwell's 1984 applying the Pedagogy of Discomfort to themes related to government control

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Hanna Houda Axelsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Pedagogy of Discomfort to themes related to government control;

    Abstract : This study explores the potential application of George Orwell's novel 1984 in ESL instruction and its influence on promoting discussion among students on divisive political issues. The objective is to examine how the novel's underlying concepts of oppression, dictatorship, and propaganda could encourage critical thinking and social interaction among ESL students. READ MORE

  5. 4. Digging up memory : suppressed objects during the dictatorship in Chile 1973–1990

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

    Author : Marcela Vera Oliva; [2023]
    Keywords : Materiality; agency; memory; counter-memory; Chile; dictatorship; Materialitet; agency; minne; counter-memory; Chile; diktatur;

    Abstract : This work deals with objects suppressed by individual people after the 1973 coup in Chile, due to the repression exerted by the installed civic-military dictatorship. It collects the memories of those who had to get rid of compromising objects to save their lives, pointing out the strategies chosen for this purpose, as well as the places to carry them out. READ MORE

  6. 5. Social Cleavages, Conflict, and the Fates of Autocratic Regimes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Teodor Lundberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Autocracy; dictatorship; social cleavage; economic inequality; ethnic cleavage; conflict; non-state conflict; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This article focuses on two specific social cleavages, ethnic and economic inequality and analyses their respective effects within autocratic regimes. The primary mechanism that was tested was the relationship between these two, and non-state conflict, (defined as a conflict with more than 25 combat fatalities, and the state not directly taking part). READ MORE