Essays about: "historical materialism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words historical materialism.

1. 6. Gambling with grains? A critical case study of the U.S. Commodity Futures Modernization Act and its implications for global food insecurity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Gabriel Snygg Kvernes; Albin Lagerlöf; [2022]
   Keywords : Commodity Futures Modernization Act; Food Insecurity; Agricultural Commodities; International Political Economy; Historical Materialism; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In 2000, the Clinton Administration in the U.S. adopted the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which deregulated the U.S. READ MORE

3. 7. The Apostle to the Intelligentsia : Father Alexander Men’ and the Rediscovery of the Russian Silver Age

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Robert Lindsay; [2021]
   Keywords : religion; Russian Orthodox Church; Alexander Men’; Vladimir Solovyov; Nikolai Berdyaev; Nadezhda Mandelstam; Silver Age; philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to shed light on a remarkable figure in Russian history, Father Alexander Men’. How and why did Men’ identify Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and other pre-revolutionary cultural figures as representatives of authentic Russian religious culture? Why would a popular Russian Orthodox priest present the writings of mystics, anarchists, and the Silver Age counterculture as the antidote for seventy years of Soviet materialism? What role did Judaism and the Russo-Jewish intellectual tradition have on Men’s identifications as an Orthodox priest? I use a semiotic theory of culture following Yuri Lotman and the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School as a framework to analyze the historical development of Orthodox personalism. READ MORE

4. 8. Love at the Heart of Feminist Epistemology: On the Interconnectedness between Love and Gender

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Veronica Grönlund; [2020]
   Keywords : epistemology; ontology; feminism; love; materialism; realism; queer theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate the concept of love in relation to feminist epistemology. Through a theoretical analysis and assessment, the aim has been to first of all examine ontological tensions between feminist works theorizing on love; secondly, to analyse which role the concept of love has in the works; and thirdly to contextualize the different ontological assumptions made within the basic tension in feminist epistemology, i. READ MORE

5. 9. Who is (still) afraid of spectres haunting Europe? : comparing the concepts of "Judeo-Bolshevism" and "Cultural Marxism" in their respective notions of ecology

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Laudy van den Heuvel; [2020]
   Keywords : Judeo-Bolshevism; Cultural Marxism; Conceptual History; Critical Discourse Analysis; Historical Materialism; Marxism; Frankfurt School; Critical Theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The concepts of “Judeo-Bolshevism” (used between approx. 1917-1945) and “Cultural Marxism” (used 1973-today) seem to have a lot in common: both are derogatory concepts used to classify the political opponent. READ MORE

6. 10. The Emergence of the social strike - A new opportunity for labour?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/ Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Viktor Ottosson; [2019-05-24]
   Keywords : social strike; strike; labour unrest; labour movement; social movements; anti-austerity; historical materialism;

   Abstract : In recent years a new emergent form of collective action – the social strike – has been discussed in social movement networks. So far, the concept of social strike has only surfaced briefly in previous research and this article aims to deepen the understanding of the concept and why it is emerging in our historical moment. READ MORE