Essays about: "discursive object"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 22 essays containing the words discursive object.

1. 16. Securitizing Communicable Disease: A case study of discursive threat-construction during the 2014 Ebola epidemic

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Elvira Sophia Schröder; [2015]
   Keywords : Securitization; global public health; Ebola virus disease; Copenhagen School; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to explore the securitization of communicable disease in the case of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa 2014. Applying the Copenhagen School’s theory of securitization, this thesis conducted a discourse analysis of speech acts occurring at different levels of the global community in relation to the outbreak. READ MORE

3. 17. Japan’s State Secrecy Debate: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Bobbie van der List; [2015]
   Keywords : Japan; SDS; state secrecy debate; safety; right to know; transparency; national security; discursive object; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The Japanese government managed to implement the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets (SDS) in late 2014, making it easier for government agencies to withhold information. The debate that was ignited by the SDS is central to this thesis. READ MORE

4. 18. Friction Intended : Exploring the overlooked potential of designing for effort.

   University essay from Konstfack/Industridesign

   Author : Daphne Zuilhof; [2014]
   Keywords : effort; design; interaction; norm; argue by example; discursive; critical; provoke propose; ease; comfort; efficiency; stimulate; activate;

   Abstract : Ease, comfort and efficiency are assumed desirables; they form the established norm of unquestioned values in commercial product design. The norm shapes our everyday. Those daily things considered mundane and commonplace, form how we go about our daily doings. How we actually live our lives. READ MORE

5. 19. Good and Bad Mothering in the Fiction of Marian Keyes : A Discourse Analysis.

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Sara Larsson; [2014]
   Keywords : motherhood; chick lit; mother-love; working mother; single mother; depression; alcoholism;

   Abstract : The object of this essay is to map the discourses of good versus bad mothering in four selected novels by Marian Keyes, and to analyze how they relate to hegemonic Western discourses of motherhood.  The analytical approach is based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory. READ MORE

6. 20. The Potential Catalytic Role of Green Entrepreneurship – Technological Eco–Innovations and Ecopreneurs’ Acts – in the Structural Transformation to a Low–Carbon or Green Economy: A Foucauldian Discursive Approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2014]
   Keywords : Discourse; episteme; green entrepreneurs hip; ecopreneurs; technological eco–innovations; low–carbon green sustainable economy; transformation; green and energy efficiency technologies; ICT; environmental; economic; political; social; ecological modernization; European society; Foucault; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Green entrepreneurship – technological eco–innovations and ecopreneurs’ acts – has recently received much attention from European policymakers as one promising response to the challenges of sustainable economic development due to its potential to catalyze and build a low–carbon or green economy. This topical relationship between green entrepreneurship and sustainable economy has also gained increasing interest among scholars. READ MORE