Essays about: "Scapegoating"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word Scapegoating.

  1. 1. Wake the Sleepwalkers! An Exploratory Analysis of Ontological (In)Security in Czechia and Slovakia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kathryn Rose Dolan; [2023]
    Keywords : Ontological Security; Critical Situations; Biographical Narrative; Czechia; Slovakia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In light of the current situation in the EU, after the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine, Europe is undoubtedly facing a critical situation. This thesis conducts an exploratory analysis of ontological (in)security in Czechia and Slovakia to investigate a region where very few academics have analyzed it from an ontological security perspective. READ MORE

  3. 2. Killing with Kindness: is whale watching in the Salish Sea killing the Southern Resident Killer Whales? : how the social representation of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales has a big incentive on locals’ actions to protect the pods

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Adélaïde Fouache; [2020]
    Keywords : SRKW; killer whales; endangerment; whale watch industry; United States; Canada; social representations;

    Abstract : The fish-eating Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) live in the Salish Sea and have been listed as endangered by the U.S and Canada in early 2000s. Their population is still declining with only 72 individuals left in May 2020. READ MORE

  4. 3. Complexity Within the Beautiful Game

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Joshua Zippis; Milos Luka Radovic; [2018]
    Keywords : swedish football; institutional complexity; managerial change;

    Abstract : This study examines managerial change in swedish football. It roots itself in traditional managerial change literature, and further examines the phenomenon from the perspective of institutional complexity, something that has not previously been researched. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Devils of History : Understanding Mass-violence Through the Thinking of Horkheimer and Adorno – The Case of Cambodia 1975-1979

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Lior Becker; [2016]
    Keywords : genocide; cambodia; khmer; khmer rouge; pol pot; frankfurt school; dialectics; adorno; horkheimer; folkmord;

    Abstract : Why does mass-violence happen at all? This paper takes the first steps to establish a model to answer this question and explain extreme mass-violence as a phenomenon. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the field of research, in which models exist to explain the phenomenon of violence, with cases of genocide being seen as problems or exceptions, and as such researched as individual cases rather than as part of a wider phenomenon. READ MORE

  6. 5. Understanding, Desirability and Truth : Configurative and Evolutionary Perspectives on ‘Understanding’

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Marticki; [2016]
    Keywords : Knowledge; understanding; epistemology; evidence; desirability; mimetic theory; scapegoating; truth.;

    Abstract : This paper examines how human beings may be able to reach certain kinds of understanding. On either side of the how, a cognitive apparatus and evidence will be theoretically presupposed. READ MORE