Essays about: "communitarianism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the word communitarianism.

  1. 11. MEDIA CULPA? NAIROBI COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS AND THE POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Hélène Mercier; [2009]
    Keywords : Community Radio; Media; Kenya; Peace-Journalism; Media Ethics; Post-Election Violence; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Community radio stations are a new phenomenon in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. While the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act 2008 recognizes them as a media category, confusion remains around questions of ownership, funding and roles. READ MORE

  3. 12. “One for all or all for one?” A normative study of the moral duty towards asylum seekers and refugees in the EU

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Alexandra Cwikiel; [2009]
    Keywords : responsibility; Dublin II Convention; Universalism; Communitarianism; Geneva Convention; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In this paper, the moral duty towards asylum seekers and refugees in the EU is highlighted, from the perspectives of Universalism and Communitariarism. Due to different levels of safety and conditions related to being granted asylum in EU member states, the attractiveness of these states for asylum seekers and refugees to seek protection differ substantially. READ MORE

  4. 13. Community and Cosmopolitanism: Western Traditions and the Challenges of Diversity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Linda Palmqvist; [2006]
    Keywords : diversity; cosmopolitanism; communitarianism; Sweden; multiculturalism; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The increase of cultural diversity in Sweden is reflective of the diversifying effects of globalisation throughout western society. The subject is currently widely debated in policy forums, the media and other public spaces, and within political science as part of the resurgence of normative theory. READ MORE

  5. 14. 'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy' : Citizenship Discourses and the Lisbon Agenda

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sandy Hager; [2006]
    Keywords : European citizenship; Lisbon Agenda; EU transnational business; European Commission; critical theory; cultural political economy; neo-Gramscian IPE; discourse analysis; embedded neo-liberalism; neo-liberal communitarianism;

    Abstract : Combining insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and neo-Gramscian IPE theory, this paper puts forth a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the discursive articulation of ‘European subjects’ in the context of the EU’s Lisbon Agenda modernisation strategy. It is suggested here that the transformation proposed in Lisbon to the new economic imaginary of the knowledge based economy (KBE), depends on ‘new subjects’ and thus new discursive constructions of identities to reflect the new economic and social formations it envisions. READ MORE

  6. 15. Do we have a moral duty to offer severely ill asylum-seeking children residence permits?

    University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Author : Jenny Björck; [2006]
    Keywords : children; asylum seekers; migration and asylum debate; ethical principles Utilitarianism; Communitarianism;

    Abstract : Do we have a moral duty to offer severely ill asylum- seeking children permanent residence permits? This thesis analyses our moral duty to offer 410 severely ill asylum-seeking children permanent residence permits. During 2004 an emotionally charged debate started in Sweden. READ MORE