Essays about: "imperial"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 53 essays containing the word imperial.

  1. 16. Process and Meaning : A Coverian Analysis of Animal Defenders International v. UK and the Procedural Turn of the ECtHR

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Arvid Skagerlid; [2021]
    Keywords : Robert Cover; Animal Defenders International; subsidiarity; the subsidiarity principle; margin of appreciation; ECHR; ECtHR; procedural turn; process-based review; procedural review; European Convention of Human Rights; European Court of Human Rights; Animal Defenders International v. the UK; democracy to come; Derrida p;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the legal theory of Robert Cover is employed to analyse the procedural turn of the ECtHR. The text studies how Animal Defenders International v. the United Kingdom (ADI) and subsequent case law relate to the margin of appreciation doctrine and how this can be understood from a Coverian point of view. READ MORE

  3. 17. Imperial Dignity to Princely Autonomy: a historical-philosophical study on the evolution and meaning of sovereignty in the Holy Roman Empire

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Robin Reimers; [2021]
    Keywords : Sovereignty; political philosophy; Holy Roman Empire; Golden Bull; Westphalia; political theory; European Studies; History and Archaeology; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis conducts a study in conceptual history into the meaning of sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire, a European political institution of states that lasted from 962 to 1806 AD. Three classical theorists in sovereignty, namely Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and Samuel von Pufendorf comprehend the main philosophical corps of the thesis, which will be operationalised by studying three constitutional documents from the Holy Roman Empire: the Golden Bull, the Treaty of Osnabrück, and the Treaty of Münster. READ MORE

  4. 18. The Giving Up of Greer: The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Janus-Faced Empire : Writing Back Against the British Imperial Discourse

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : David Woods; [2021]
    Keywords : postcolonialism; colonial discourse; mixed-race children; Caryl Phillips; Crossing the River;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine the tension at the heart of the British colonial discourse as it affects the relationship of Travis and Joyce in the chapter "Somewhere in England", in Caryl Phillips's 1993 novel, Crossing the River. The thesis of the essay is that the colonial discourse of the British insists on a racial signifier in the imagined community of the British, and thus resists the idea that a person can be both black and British. READ MORE

  5. 19. Pre Face

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)

    Author : Hannah Wiker Wikström; [2021]
    Keywords : ontology; soil; posthumanism; new materialism; feminist speculation; unlearning;

    Abstract : A speculative inquiry into perception regimes, ‘unlearning’, entanglements and how to discuss re-production in the realm of (art) production today. A textual crossreading of how to actively admit and amplify the colonial and imperial consequences active in all levels of society, both personal and collective, and how these ideas continues to (re)produce in ways outside (and inside) of our imagination. READ MORE

  6. 20. Domination in the name of Democracy? : The means and ends to the European Union’s democracy promotion

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Karin Stångberg; [2021]
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    Abstract : In recent years we have been able to witness a growing divide in the politics of democracy promotion, research in the field has taken a more critical turn and is proclaiming a legitimacy crisis of democracy promotion. Some of the most prominent critique comes from the field of postcolonialism where authors argue that the desire to intervene and democratise another society should be considered an imperial project. READ MORE