Essays about: "Jürgen Habermas."
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1. Talking Communities : Sámi Trail of Tears as a Model of Habitus-Based Reconciliation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This conflict study in Theology investigates reconciliation possibilities in indigenous lands in northern Sweden to be discussed through the Sámi Trail of Tears Walking Trail – a real-life innovation project. The historical material is based on the depiction of forcefully dislocated Sámis and the now polarized situation where local indigenous groups risk new conflicts partly with each other, partly with extractive industries, motorized tourism, and the majority’s society. READ MORE
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2. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE
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3. A culture of consent - but to what extent? A qualitative interview study in Sweden on how the legislators' ambitions to create a consent culture could be achieved and manifested in practice.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : In May 2018, the Swedish Parliament voted in favor of a Sexual Offense legislation based on voluntariness and the new law came into force on the first of July. In the proposal to change the legislation, the government claimed that a new consent culture must be established. READ MORE
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4. Statehood/Freedom- An Argumentation analysis of Hawaii and Puerto Rico’s position as territories of the United States of America
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In the context of former American colonies, statehood can for some be seen as either the end of colonization or the culmination of it. This paper will conduct an argumentation analysis to determine how the public debate surrounding the statehood question has been constructed and legitimized in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. READ MORE
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5. A sovereign abode – Democracy, discipline and deliberation in a Swedish housing association from 1943 to the present
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Since its inception, the discipline of sociology has struggled to bridge the gap between structure and agency. How is it that individuals can be free whilst also part of a larger context that determines their actions? This study aims to make a small contribution towards solving this conundrum. READ MORE
