Essays about: "Postcolonial debate"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words Postcolonial debate.
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11. The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria - The future of international law or an abuse of power?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The Responsibility to Protect, or “R2P”, is a principle that has generated heated debate since its introduction in a report by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) in 2001. Having received an enthusiastic response from member states at the World Summit Outcome in 2005, the United Nations seemed to move into a new era of protecting humanitarian values; that of acting to protect the citizens of states when the states themselves proved unwilling or unable to do so. READ MORE
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12. Contesting Closures: Deconstructing the Political Economy within Degrowth
University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This study explores the analytical and conceptual closures within political economy and degrowth literature. In order to explore these closures, poststructural theories of postcolonial and queer have been used. READ MORE
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13. Tensions of Universal Claims and Contextual Sensitivities: The Case of Religious Freedom : An examination of Martha Nussbaum and Saba Mahmood’s ways of mediating the tensions of religious freedom
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis uses a philosophical discussion to explore the tensions that result in the meeting between universal claims and particular contexts regarding human rights and how these tensions can be mediated by exploring the right to religious freedom. In order to do this, two approaches will be studied, one liberal and one postcolonial, represented by Martha Nussbaum and Saba Mahmood respectively. READ MORE
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14. Yo ban? Rape rap and limits of free speech in India : An argument analysis of the debate about banning the artist Honey Singh
University essay from Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis consists of an argument analysis of three columns published in the Indian newspaper The Indian Express in the aftermath of the gangrape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in December 2012, and the following debate about glorification of rape in Indian popular culture. One of the columnists is arguing in favour of including gender as a category in the Indian law on hate speech, thereby banning an artist called Honey Singh and his lyrics about rape. READ MORE
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15. When Silenced Voices Meet Homi. K. Bhabha’s “Megaphone”
University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : Drawing upon Homi. K. Bhabha's essay A Personal Response and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can The Subaltern Speak? I initiated my research project When the Silenced Voices Meet Homi. K. READ MORE