Essays about: "Social antagonisms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Social antagonisms.

1. 1. Under the shade of rumour refutation : a critical analysis of #PoliceRefuteRumour campaign on Chinese social media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Mingyi Fang; [2021]
   Keywords : Civic Culture; Antagonism and Hegemony; Myth; Rumour; Rumour refutation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Rumour refutation is a series of campaigns that the Chinese authorities invest in combating 'the overflow' of network rumours, especially since 2017. These campaigns reflect the Chinese's knowledge of rumour as false and harmful. READ MORE

3. 2. The Swedish gasoline tax - A battlefield between the people and the elite? : A cultural performative analysis of the antagonisms in the Swedish gasoline tax debate.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Matilda Larsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Sustainability science; Gasoline tax; Sweden; Environmental politics; Framing; Cultural legitimacy; Populism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The focus of this thesis is the debate regarding gasoline taxes in Sweden which is an example of a polarised sustainability debate. The aim is to get an in-depth understanding of the antagonisms of the debate by looking into how the pro and contra sides create and maintain cultural legitimacy and societal resonance through discursive struggles. READ MORE

4. 3. Media Portrayals of Protests : A Discursive Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Gilet Jaune protests in France

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Matilda Nilsson Morris; [2019]
   Keywords : Populism; Social Media; Journalism; Identity; French Democracy; Gilets Jaunes; protests; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The way conflicts are understood depends on how identities are conveyed through media. Newspapers’ reports of the Gilets Jaunes protests in France during the autumn 2018 are no exception. One factor that can influence which choices are made in describing identity, is the distance between the place of publication and the location of events. READ MORE

5. 4. (Re)Articulating Sexual Citizenship: Between Queering the Urban Space and Subjugating the Queer

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Onur Kiliç; [2018]
   Keywords : politics of space; globalisation; sexuality; sexual citizenship; discourse theory; consumerism; homonormativity; post-industrial city; entrepreneurial city; creative class; post-structuralism; neoliberalism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In today’s post-industrial cities, how urban citizenship is defined and performed have been ambiguously positioned in their relationship with the urban societal space. While the cities become more commodified and privatized with the inter-urban competition, the concept of citizenship is put into a tentative position between being participatory political subjects and passive consumers. READ MORE

6. 5. Standing up for The Everyday Americans : The discursive articulation of the true ‘American’ in the Tea Party movement

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Olle Nykvist; [2016]
   Keywords : Tea Party; populism; discourse; identity; American;

   Abstract : This thesis uses discourse theory on speeches made by four Tea Party elites: Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Rand Paul, to see how they construct an American identity. My purpose is to show how the Tea party movement articulates the American identity by exploring the way in which they use chains of equivalences to produce meaning to their identity. READ MORE