Essays about: "discourse security"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 333 essays containing the words discourse security.

1. 1. Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Melissa Lennartsson; [2024-01-26]
   Keywords : Vulnerable areas; urban policy; place-making; advanced urban marginality; safety security nexus; neoliberalism; Gothenburg;

   Abstract : This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on local policy produced in the City of Gothenburg, this thesis finds that such texts – through their imagination of space – produce “vulnerable areas” as spaces of intervention in need of extraordinary treatment. READ MORE

3. 2. Countering Terrorist Content Online: Removal = Success? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the EU Regulation 2021/784

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Nina McCarthy Hartman; [2024]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Content Moderation; Counter-Terrorism; EU;

   Abstract : This thesis critically interrogates the underlying assumptions which legitimise the hard regulation of online platforms regarding terrorist content, by turning to the case of the EU Regulation 2021/784. Utilising qualitative critical discourse analysis, the study analyses how the EU's strategy against terrorist content online is discursively legitimised through the lens of Theo van Leeuwen's framework for discursive legitimisation strategies, focusing on moral and rational justifications. READ MORE

4. 3. Reaching Food Security: The legislative challenges of Seed exchange in kind : a discourse analysis of the European Commission’s PRM proposal

   University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

   Author : Anna Beskow; [2024]
   Keywords : Food Security; Food Sovereignty; European Commission; Seed exchange in kind; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : On the 5th of July 2023, the European Commission presented a new Plant Reproductive Material directive with a general objective of ensuring high quality and diversity that contributes to food security, protects biodiversity, and restores forest ecosystems. The aims are to increase efficiency and promote and support mainly sustainable innovation. READ MORE

5. 4. Sweden's relationship to NATO - How the government legitimizes its foreign security policy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Victoria Karlsson; [2024]
   Keywords : NATO; securitization; legitimization; non-alignment; NATO-membership; speech acts.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study how different political orientations in Swedish foreign security policy have been legitimized. After having pursued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment for 200 years, Sweden made a decision to apply for membership in the military alliance NATO. READ MORE

6. 5. Securing the Arctic : An analysis of Sweden's construction of security in the Arctic (2020-2023)

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Lovisa Sand; [2024]
   Keywords : Arctic; securitization; Sweden; Arctic security;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how the Arctic region is portrayed and constructed as a security matter within Swedish state discourses from 2020 to 2023. Focused on the escalating geopolitical significance and the transformative impact of climate change in the Arctic, the thesis scrutinizes Sweden's portrayal of security in the region. READ MORE