Essays about: "Symbolic Politics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the words Symbolic Politics.
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1. The suffocating enjoyment of the Other: An ideology critique of enjoyment in the mediatisation of the climate crisis
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This thesis explores how the Lacanian concept of ‘the enjoyment of the Other’ (la jouissance de l’Autre) can be applied to break open normative understandings of the political factors shaping the climate crisis deadlock. The principal aim is to investigate how ostensibly disconnected environmental debates may be regarded as linked by an economy of enjoyment, more precisely by the promise of enjoyment by which the subject is libidinally attached to an ideology. READ MORE
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2. Problematizing Security in Education: A poststructural policy analysis of Swedish school security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : During the last few years several violent school attacks have taken place in Sweden, leading to a debate in both the media and in politics concerning school security. There is pressure from the public to “make schools safer”, with some steps being taken on a legislative level. READ MORE
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3. No longer red, but a rainbow-coloured plague: the influence of ontological insecurities on the anti-gender discourse in Poland
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In recent years anti-genderism has increased in popularity, as the populist parties, illiberal governments and conservative groups have begun to implement the discourse into their politics. The discourse can function as a symbolic glue, political tool as well as part of the religious narrative. READ MORE
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4. Representation of climate change in the United States: the case study of the Evangelical Climate Initiative
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : The purpose of this study is to critically research and describe how the leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals and within the campaign ‘Evangelical Climate Initiative’ seek to influence climate change policymaking in the United States. The importance of this study is coming from the need to assess how strongly a religious group influences climate change policymaking in the United States. READ MORE
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5. Adding Bugs : Examining the state of entomophagy in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This ethnographic study examines the state of entomophagy in Sweden amongst a group of ‘middle-class’ individuals living in urban areas of the country. In this endeavor, an analytical perspective that focuses on the embodied cultural-sensorial processes which influence how people perceive and engage with insects as food provides a richer picture, as opposed to an approach that privileges exclusively symbolic or discursive representations. READ MORE
