Essays about: "cultural hegemony"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 50 essays containing the words cultural hegemony.

  1. 26. The Political Economy of Left-Wing Populism - social relations and the economic imaginary of Podemos

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Jacob König; [2017]
    Keywords : Podemos; Populism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Cultural Political Economy; Hegemony; Embeddedness; Economic Imaginary; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Populism has become a political catchphrase across the world, spanning across the entire political spectrum in various forms. In Spain, the left-wing populist party Podemos is the most significant case, adopting a post-marxist perspective less focused on the economy than orthodox marxism. READ MORE

  3. 27. Legal consciousness and legal empowerment in low-income Latina parents of children with disabilities attending the ‘TIGER’ parent advocacy program

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Vilhelmina Poppius; [2017]
    Keywords : legal consciousness; empowerment; legal empowerment; parent empowerment; power; economic capital; cultural capital; social capital; symbolic capital; parent advocacy; minority low-income parents; children with disabilities; legal non-profits; special education law in California; IDEA; hegemony of the law; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : It is important to examine parent advocacy programs to understand how they function in a society where there are many structural obstacles to those with little power. These programs can provide an impactful way to level out power imbalances. READ MORE

  4. 28. CREATING THE CITIZENS OF TOMORROW. A study of the Japanese curriculum regarding goals in creating “the good citizen”

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Joachim Hansen; [2016-09-05]
    Keywords : japanska; Japan; education; curriculum studies; discourse analysis; text analysis; culture; moral education; civics; patriotism; cultural hegemony; citizenship;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to study what kind of citizen the Japanese curriculum aims to create and what language and words are important in doing so. The research is based on three main materials; First, the Japanese middle- and high school curriculum in civics. READ MORE

  5. 29. POWER IN TRANSLATION. Bringing Japan to the West

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Theo Gillberg; [2016-09-02]
    Keywords : Japanska; SIK; Japanese; Murakami; Venuti; foreignisation; domestication; translation studies; cultural dominance; hegemony;

    Abstract : Studying the Japanese language in translation is highly interesting, given its many unique linguistic features and the distinctive cultural setting in which it is primarily used. Adopting Japanese works into Western languages like Swedish or English is therefore very challenging, as there is no shared syntax, language family or cultural background. READ MORE

  6. 30. Zero poaching and social sustainability in protected areas : a study of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Hitesh Pant; [2016]
    Keywords : zero poaching; fortress conservation; Chitwan; Gramsci; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Protected areas (PAs) embody a historical legacy of value contestation and human exclusion. While the rise of community-based conservation in the 1980s sought to reconfigure this mechanism by running a counter narrative arguing that biodiversity conservation and development were mutually reinforcing objectives, exclusionary PAs continue to maintain a strong position in the conservation discourse. READ MORE