Essays about: "Radical Discourse Theory"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 29 essays containing the words Radical Discourse Theory.

  1. 11. From a hashtag to a movement : From MeToo to being rightless in 2020's Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Klara Fröberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Rape script; MeToo; sexual violence; Rättslösa; radical feminism; Sweden; Feminism; political engagement; feminist organization; collective action; rightlessness; movement; patriarchy; collective identity; feminist separatism; discourse theory;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the continuance of the MeToo movement in the Swedish context via the digitalplatform Instagram, collective action and feminist organizations that are engaged to end sexual violence.It illuminates how the sisterhood impacted by the practice of challenging the rape script a conceptused to describe the discourse on how sexual violence should be like, and how victim-survivors should behave, how the engagement is made among the activists that engage to challenge the rape script and lastly, how since the MeToo movement started a discourse of rightlessness have been exposed through the sharing of experiences that the MeToo movement initiated. READ MORE

  3. 12. Digesting the Pan-African Failure and the Role of African Psychology : Fanonian understanding of the Pan-African failure in establishing oneness and ending disunity/xenophobia in South Africa

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Aisha Mohamed; [2021]
    Keywords : Gradual Pan-Africanism; Radical Pan-Africanism; Collective-unconsciousness; Abandonment-neurotic; Black-Consciousness; Political unity; Neo-colonialism; Otherness; Mimicry; Subaltern.;

    Abstract : The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. READ MORE

  4. 13. Identifying Counterhegemonic Spaces: Kosovo and EU-Enlargement

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Andreas Stokkendal Poulsen; [2020]
    Keywords : Kosovo; EU; Enlargement; Radical Discourse Theory; Laclau; Howarth;

    Abstract : In everyday life, imposing your will on your neighbour is likely to turn out counterproductive for your mutual relationship in the long term. Yet, the EU’s Enlargement-policy is commonly perceived as embedded with a spirit of policy imposition. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Gospel of Bernie Sanders: Discourse Analysis for a Radical Democratic Politics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Yuliana Ocampo; [2020]
    Keywords : political activism; discourse analysis; cultural analysis; social movements; grassroots; modern political theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of activism, specifically the culture of political activism at the level of the individual lived experience. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (2014) draws from Antonio Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony and develops a theoretical framework for how social movements can effectively organize and mobilize for social change. READ MORE

  6. 15. SoFo in Stockholm: Placemaking in the age of hipster urbanism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Christopher Pickering; [2020]
    Keywords : critical urban theory; gentrification; grassroots; place; placemaking; housing; small business;

    Abstract : The transformation of cities through gentrification and the commodification of culture and green space are central problems in Urban Studies. This thesis investigated how cities like Stockholm can move forward from this gentrification. READ MORE