Essays about: "cultural theory critique"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 22 essays containing the words cultural theory critique.

  1. 11. A contemporary understanding of Islamophobia in the West - the case of Donald Trump

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

    Author : Huda Amir Gafur; [2019]
    Keywords : Key words: Islamophobia; United States of America; Donald Trump; Orientalism; Populism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Fairclough; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis uses Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse the narratives of Islamophobia of United States of America, with President Donald Trump as a case study, examining his interviews and speeches. The theoretical framework is constituted by critical race theory (with particular focus on cultural racism), the critique of the colonial mentality, clash of civilization and populism. READ MORE

  3. 12. David Miller's Theory of Immigration: A Realist Critique

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hugo Sundman; [2019]
    Keywords : David Miller;

    Abstract : This study examines the coherency of David Miller’s immigration argument in favour of a state regulated immigration policy. It is an internal critique where Miller’s empirical understanding of immigration is questioned by an empirical analysis using external concepts taken from the substantive realist thinker’s Bonnie Honig and Marc Stears as well as Raymond Geuss. READ MORE

  4. 13. Artificial Intelligence: The implications of current technological developments for Harry Collins epistemological theory and his critique of the possibilities of a general AI.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Marita Isaksson; [2018-10-29]
    Keywords : Harry Collins; artificial intelligence; epistemology;

    Abstract : Social constructivism and Harry Collins epistemological theory put focus on the sociology of scientific knowledge, scientific practice and the nature of expertise. From his theory, inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ‘forms of life’ and David Bloor’s strong programme, Collins has from the nineties until today argued against the possibilities of creating a general artificial intelligence, which can be compared with any cognitive functions that a human accommodates. READ MORE

  5. 14. LESSONS FROM ROMA FEMINISM IN EUROPE Digital Storytelling Projects with Roma Women Activists from Romania, Spain and Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Jasmine Ljungberg; [2018-06-20]
    Keywords : Community; solidarity; transnational feminism; Roma feminism; intersectionality; migration; multi-sited ethnography; Diaspora; participatory action research; digital storytelling;

    Abstract : This multi-sited ethnographic research explores Roma feminism through the stories of Roma women activists participating in Digital Storytelling projects in Romania, Spain and Sweden. Drawing from relevant feminist theory and debates (intersectionality and Roma feminist theory, transnational feminism, liberal and cultural/different-centered feminist thought), these stories are understood in dialogue with different theoretical perspectives that both reproduce patterns of conflicts in feminist thought and create new ways of understanding feminism and solidarity based on a transnational context. READ MORE

  6. 15. Que(e)rdenker*innen united :politicizing ecological grief within Western cultures of unsustainability through impulses from queer ecological theory and practice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Judith Petra Mühlbacher; [2018]
    Keywords : ecological grief: queer ecology; master identity; art-based research; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Jegliche Auseinandersetzung mit ökologischer Literatur suggeriert, dass wir uns aufgrund des anthropogenen Klimawandels in einem Zeitalter bisher ungesehener ökologischer Verluste befinden. Eine häufige Reaktion darauf ist ökologische Trauer. READ MORE