Essays about: "Intervention rhetoric"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Intervention rhetoric.

  1. 1. Debating the ‘wild’ : What the Oostvaardersplassen can tell us about Dutch constructions of nature

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

    Author : Meghan Buurmans; [2021]
    Keywords : The Oostvaardersplassen; Construction of nature; Nature management; Intervention; Culling; Grazers; Wilderness; Bird reserve;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses key conflicts in the Oostvaardersplassen. These conflicts include the contestation of the Oostvaardersplassen as wilderness, the debate on grazer mortality, and the debate on culling. Through Actor Network Theory, the actors involved in the Oostvaardersplassen are discussed. READ MORE

  3. 2. Digital Landscapes of Imperialism - US Intervention in Video Games

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Mikko Jokela Måsbäck; [2018]
    Keywords : Intervention; Video Games; Discourse; Landscape; Imperialism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Within the cultural imaginary of video games, armed conflicts have always occupied a central space. Their subject material, as well as technologies and visual techniques, are often based on historical and present-day conflicts, often involving US Armed Forces, subcontractors or intelligence agents. READ MORE

  4. 3. Appraisal in Political Speech: A Comparative Discursive Study of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Richard Helander; [2014]
    Keywords : Appraisal theory; Appraisal framework; Political speech; Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Us and them; Positive self- and negative other presentation; Legitimisation; Winston Churchill; Tony Blair; Speaker alignment; Judgement; Heteroglossic engagement; Rhetoric; Politicial language; Speaker-addressee context creation; War rhetoric; Intervention rhetoric; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study investigated alignments in speeches held by two historically prominent politicians: Sir Winston Churchill and Tony Blair. The speeches that comprised the data of this study were a speech from 3 September, 1939, for the former, and a speech held on 18 March, 2003, for the latter. READ MORE

  5. 4. Tracing images in American and Russian oratory : an analysis of Russian and American rhetoric within the context of the Syrian conflict

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Cornelia Norén; [2013]
    Keywords : Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Binary Opposition; Enemy Image; Syria; Rhetoric; America; Russia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay is an analysis of American and Russian oratory within the context of the conflict in Syria. The purpose of the analysis is to delineate Russian and American understandings of an eventual military intervention in Syria, as well as depicting which images of the self and the enemy that are mediated through both countries' rhetoric. READ MORE

  6. 5. European Partnership with Africa: A Partnership of Values

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Mattias Poulsen; [2012-05-24]
    Keywords : Partnership; Governance; Barbarity; Development; Africa; Sweden; EU; Policy; Power.;

    Abstract : This thesis set out to understand how European rhetoric legitimises European intervention in development and coerces African leaders into the Eurocentric world order. This through analysing the discourse in four Africa-policies from Europe and comparing them The aim of this thesis is to test the power relations within development cooperation. READ MORE