Essays about: "Norms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1628 essays containing the word Norms.

1. 1. SMOOTH OPERATORS? - Ambassadors’ Engagement in Pride parades

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Kristina Gurok; [2022-01-20]
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   Abstract : Ambassadors waving rainbow flags participate in Pride parades in many capitals around the world. However, within existing scholarship, ambassadors are dominantly portrayed as facilitative of smooth state relations by acting, speaking and dressing in a discrete and non-confrontational manner and carefully avoiding interference in domestic affairs of the host state. READ MORE

3. 2. The “threat from abroad” and the breaking of the Swedish “cordon sanitaire” : A critical discourse analysis of right-wing party-political, online communication in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikation

   Author : Hugo Ekström; [2022]
   Keywords : Radical right populism; immigration; criminality; political communication; Facebook; normalization; discursive shifts; moral panic; imaginaries; borderline discourse;

   Abstract : In the last decade, we have witnessed a new stage in the mainstreaming and normalization pro­cess of populist radical right policies and ideas in the Western world. This has resulted in in­creasing politicization of issues related to immigration. READ MORE

4. 3. The Effect of Introducing a Curbside Recycling System on the Recycling Behavior of Households

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jenny Särnholm; [2022]
   Keywords : curbside recycling; recycling behavior; circular economy; waste management; Sweden; Callaway and Sant Anna;

   Abstract : This research investigates whether the implementation of a curbside recycling system has an effect on the behavior of households with regard to the recycling of packaging material in Sweden. Previous research presented in the literature points out that the decision to engage in recycling behavior, rather than free-riding on the contributions of others, is based on the perceived contribution of others. READ MORE

5. 4. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : 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

6. 5. Feminist Art and the Critique of Traditional Aesthetic Norms : What does feminist aesthetics say about our standards of appreciation and how can it be used to produce new ways of thinking?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

   Author : Elise Plesse; [2022]
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