Essays about: "Visual Global Politics"
Found 5 essays containing the words Visual Global Politics.
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1. Images and International Relations : Analysing the images of children in the Syrian war
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This thesis examines the study of images in International Relations (IR). Even though images play an important role in global politics, images have received little attention by IR scholars. In this thesis I aim to answer how images can be studied. READ MORE
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2. Visualising the Invisible
University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustrationAbstract : Visualising the Insivible is a project whose final materialization reflects upon our connection with information and how it can immediately affect the way we view the world beyond and around us. Throughout my research and the development of this project, several “meta-words” relevant to this project had to be considered: respect, dignity, integrity and information accuracy, thus redefining a challenge within a challenge and, more concretely, the need to contemplate upon a topic of our time that happens to influence politics and society alike, locally, but with a global effect and long term impact. READ MORE
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3. Cartoon representations of the migrant crisis in Greek new media
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The increasing and irregular flow of migrants in Europe had lead to an unprecedented crisis which European and International stakeholders have been struggling to manage in a challenging context of financial insecurity, political instability, fragile foreign relations and controversial steps and policies. This current context questions Europe’s image as a powerful global key-player and a civilized privileged space/entity and also shutters migrants’ dreams and illusions of a promise-land. READ MORE
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4. ”Right Wing Aid” : A study of the rhetorical fusion between humanitarianism and neo-nationalism
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis explores the dialectical relationship between humanitarianism and neo-nationalism, as it is reified through the rhetoric of the Swedish aid organization Right Hand Aid. It initiates an inquiry of the organization and provides a new example of how humanitarianism is used for legitimizing and depoliticizing purposes. READ MORE
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5. Film for Change, Communication Rights and Social Change in Tanzania
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The thesis presents a view of film for change set against the manifold approaches, practices or ideologies influencing it, and analysis it as a tool for the self-representation, self-determination and mediation of marginalised people in the face of globalization and the democratization of communication. It seeks to find an answer to the question of how film for change works as a method to empower the disadvantaged inhabitants of three villages in Tanzania, where fieldwork was carried out. READ MORE
