Essays about: "everyday politics"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 60 essays containing the words everyday politics.

1. 6. CAMBODIAN-THAI BORDER CONFLICT; A critical case study and grassroots stakeholders’ perspectives on the 2008 Preah Vihear Temple (PVT)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Kunty Touch; [2022-11-08]
   Keywords : Preah Vihear temple; Cambodia; Thailand; conflict; grassroots stakeholders; peace; bottom-up peacebuilding;

   Abstract : The revival of the Preah Vihear conflict resumed again in 2008 not focusing on the architectural structure of the temple but over the unclearly claimed the temple’s vicinity of 4.6km2 after the UNESCO registered the temple as the World Heritage. READ MORE

3. 7. Climate Justice Movement as Norm Entrepreneur in Global Politics : Creating an Alternative Future in Lützerath to Protest Coal Mining

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Sara-Lorena Mehl; [2022]
   Keywords : Social Movements; Global Norms; Norm Entrepreneurs; Everyday Utopias; Prefiguration;

   Abstract : This thesis argues that contemporary climate justice actions can present a case for how social movements and activists engage as norm entrepreneurs with global politics. Following a case-based approach (McKee, 2003) and combining perspectives of political science with anthropology, theoretical concepts of everyday utopias (Cooper, 2014) and prefiguration (Maeckelbergh, 2011b; 2014) are applied to the case of a village occupation in Germany against a lignite coal mine expansion. READ MORE

4. 8. God, the Nation, and the King in Everyday Life : Everyday politics and everyday religion in an urban Jordanian context

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Julia Sandin Bard; [2022]
   Keywords : everyday politics; everyday resistance; everyday support; everyday religion; lived religion; Jordan; political engagement;

   Abstract : Scholars and experts speak of a political apathy and a lack of political engagement in Jordan. In conventional studies of political engagement a large part of the actual everyday engagement of “the ordinary” is overlooked as it does not conform to the prevailing view of political or civic engagement. READ MORE

5. 9. Adding Bugs : Examining the state of entomophagy in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Martin Edström; [2022]
   Keywords : entomophagy; insects; Sweden; food; culture; senses; perception;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study examines the state of entomophagy in Sweden amongst a group of ‘middle-class’ individuals living in urban areas of the country. In this endeavor, an analytical perspective that focuses on the embodied cultural-sensorial processes which influence how people perceive and engage with insects as food provides a richer picture, as opposed to an approach that privileges exclusively symbolic or discursive representations. READ MORE

6. 10. “Listening to the Terrorists” - On the Role of Religion behind Islamist Terrorism : A qualitative Analysis of the Radicalization Processes of Islamist Terrorists

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Liane Bossenmaier; [2022]
   Keywords : Islamist Terrorism; Radicalization; Religion; Autobiographical Case Analysis;

   Abstract : Understanding the motives behind Islamist terrorist attacks is not only relevant for the field of politics but preoccupies research within academia. One of the most debated is certainly the role of religion. READ MORE