Essays about: "Genocide"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 153 essays containing the word Genocide.

  1. 26. If this is a genocide: A critical discourse analysis of opening addresses at the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014-2021

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Gabriel Lindgren; [2022]
    Keywords : Israel; Holocaust; remembrance; security; discourse; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the discussion on the relation between memory and security in how Holocaust remembrance discourse affect the construction of security in Israel. By utilizing Norman Fairclough’s method of textual and discursive practice it analyzes speeches held by Israeli heads of state at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Remembrance Day between the years 2014-2021. READ MORE

  3. 27. Constructing the Ideal Parent in Post-Genocide Rwanda : Social Engineering and Informality in Kigali Settlements after Genocide

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Amanda Palacios; [2022]
    Keywords : Post-Genocide Rwanda; Informal Settlements; Social Engineering; Governmentality; Parenting Culture; Genocide Studies; Anthropology of Post-Genocide;

    Abstract : Previous studies of post-genocide Rwanda illutrates how nation-building and the government’s urgency to break with the past results in aims to rearrange society in order to prevent further violence and hostility. Developmental aims are also embedded in the broader project of post-genocide nation-building, adapted to promote a new and improved way of life after the genocide. READ MORE

  4. 28. United Nations and the Yazidi : A Discourse Analysis on Arguments Around Intervention

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Sarah Stone; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Since 1948, the United Nations (UN) has been tasked with trying to prevent genocides yet when it comes to providing militaristic intervention, the UN fails to act. This thesis explored why the UN did not intervene militarily in the Yazidi genocide of 2014 through analyzing the arguments in source documents from the UN bodies of the Secretary-General, Human Rights Council, and Security Council. READ MORE

  5. 29. Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The ‘Social Death’ of Institutionalized Women and Children and the ‘Social Amnesia’ of Irish Society in the Twentieth Century, Depicted in Forensic Evidence from the Children's Mass Grave at a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway.

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    Author : Cecilia Ahl Falkensjö; [2021-02-26]
    Keywords : Dark heritage; social amnesia; social death; forensic archaeology; juvenile human remains; bioarchaeology; Irish state; Catholic Church; child abuse; human rights violation; Irish society; Irish media;

    Abstract : The twentieth century was a time of social and political changes. Victims of trauma, genocide, massacres and abuse in a largely Post-Colonial era would increasingly gain recognition and places of suffering, death and pain would become places of remembrance. READ MORE

  6. 30. Reflections of the Image

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hanna Södergren; [2021]
    Keywords : visual securitization; genocide; Rohingya; individuality; suffering; discourse analysis; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The world stands often in the face of moral contentions, determining certain people or events as worthy of security whilst ignoring others. The conscience of watching silently as the genocide in Rwanda unfolded has weighed heavily on the international community’s shoulders, seemingly not heavy enough to refrain from repeating the same mistake however. READ MORE