Essays about: "discursive object"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 22 essays containing the words discursive object.

  1. 11. Centralising citizenship for media reform : local news audiences of Brexit

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Isabella Lopez-Smith; [2017]
    Keywords : News; Audience; Media; Reform; Citizen; Discourse; Brexit; EU Referendum; Wales; UK; Citizenship; Power; Regulation; Engagement; Resource; Political Communication; Democracy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The primary aim of this thesis is to critically examine news media as a resource for political engagement. A secondary aim is to demonstrate the importance and vitality of qualitative audience research to studies of news and democracy and wider democratization of society alongside media reform. READ MORE

  3. 12. Gendered Ethnicity : On the Discursive Limits of National Identity

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Lisa Skoog; [2016]
    Keywords : identity; nationalism; gender; discourse; Kyrgyzstan; ethnicity; conflict; Central Asia;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a feminist perspective on the inter-ethnic conflict between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan. The empirical data for the analysis consists of reports describing the conflict and from interviews conducted in the region in the spring of 2016. READ MORE

  4. 13. Legitimizing Vetoes : A Discourse Analysis of How Vetoes are Motivated in the United Nations Security Council

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hanna Wernersson; [2016]
    Keywords : United Nations Security Council; veto; discourse analysis; contra-discourse; legitimizing;

    Abstract : How is a veto justified? Within the discipline of International Relations, discourse analysis is gaining a higher status. However, there is a surprising lacuna in the literature as a discursive approach to the veto in the United Nations Security Council, is yet to be taken. This is unfortunate, given the Security Council’s prominence. READ MORE

  5. 14. Blind Injustice : J. M. Coetzee and the Misapprehension of the Ecological Object

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tom Bradstreet; [2016]
    Keywords : J. M. Coetzee; Life Times of Michael K; ecocriticism; object-oriented ontology; postcolonial theory;

    Abstract : This thesis attempts to develop a concept of 'ecological misapprehension' by means of an object-oriented ecocritical analysis of several works by J. M. Coetzee. READ MORE

  6. 15. THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY Regenerating industrial heritage in Rome

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Maria Nyström; [2015-06-24]
    Keywords : Industrial heritage; urban regeneration; creative city; place; urban resistance;

    Abstract : Former industries are increasingly being reinterpreted for cultural uses despite sometimes having an ambiguous past. The slaughterhouse in Testaccio, Rome, has since its´closing in 1975 been the object of various kinds of plans and uses by number of actors with different interests. READ MORE