Essays about: "Hannah Arendt"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words Hannah Arendt.

  1. 1. 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

  2. 2. "She'd learn over and over from Pa: these men had to have the last punch" : A literary analysis of Delia Owen's Where the Crawdads Sing and how it can be incorporated in the EFL classroom to discuss men's violence against women

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Julia Holmborg; [2023]
    Keywords : Power; Violence; Feminism; Rape culture; Critical literacy; EFL Classroom; Upper Secondary School;

    Abstract : This essay offers a literary study of the novel Where the Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens published in 2018. The aim is to analyze the presence of men’s violence against women by focusing on the protagonist Kya. READ MORE

  3. 3. The humanized refugee: Representations and Rights - A discourse analysis of media’s representation of refugees between 2015 and 2022

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Jonathan Dahl Hill; [2023]
    Keywords : refugees; subject of human rights; representations; Ukraine; Syria; Hannah Arendt; Carol Bacchi. flyktingar; mänskliga rättigheter; representationer; Ukraina; Syrien.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Denna studie undersöker hur syriska och ukrainska flyktingar är representerade i svensk media. Frågorna som ställs är hur medias representation av flyktingar 2015 och 2022 skiljer sig åt, och i vilken utsträckning de representeras som individer med mänskliga rättigheter. READ MORE

  4. 4. “You can be whatever you want in this world, but not un-vaccinated.” – Understanding Covid-19 anti-vaccinators in Modern Democracy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Lovisa Seller; [2022-11-08]
    Keywords : Covid-19; Sweden; activism; freedom; representation; demonstration; control; togetherness; truth; vaccination.;

    Abstract : Sweden’s approach for covid-19 has been considered mild compared to other countries’, but despite the Public Health Authority’s, the government’s, and the politician’s relatively relaxed l approach towards the pandemic, there have been a lot of questions raised regarding the work and management of this crisis both from those that asked for a firmer handling and from those who criticised the regulations all together. There are citizens in Sweden who have had a growing resentment towards the vaccination and the vaccination card, which has come to result in people connecting and establishing movements against the covid-19 vaccination through protests and demonstrations. READ MORE

  5. 5. Principles and the Purpose of Action : An inquiry into the relationship between the ethical and the political in the work of Hannah Arendt.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för praktisk filosofi

    Author : Andreas Klawitter; [2022]
    Keywords : Hannah Arendt; principles; action; performativity;

    Abstract : Hannah Arendt has been widely criticized for conceiving a theory of action and the public realm as devoid of any ethical restraints. This paper suggests that such criticism, as well as proponents of Arendt’s theory, fails to deal with her theory on its own terms and argue that her own notion of manifesting principles as the purpose of action, provides an account of political action that is ethically oriented towards our common world. READ MORE