Essays about: "marx"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 52 essays containing the word marx.

  1. 16. Imaginary Specters, Imagined Listeners: The Undecidable in Graham Swift's Tomorrow and Mothering Sunday

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Rebecca Weiger; [2021]
    Keywords : Swift; Female narrators; Specters; Silence; Derrida; Undecidability;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the possible connection between specters and silence in Graham Swift’s Tomorrow (2007) and Mothering Sunday (2016). In both novels, the protagonists predominantly speak in interior monologues, recounting the memories and secrets that haunt them, in what could be construed as an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of their past. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Intersections of Race and Class-Based Social Movements under Fordism: Rediscovering a Neglected Form of Critical Social Analysis

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

    Author : Jonas Grahn; [2020]
    Keywords : Race and class; Johnson-Forest tendency; Hegelian Marxism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : When critical scholars coming from different academic disciplines, such as sociology, gender studies, or Black studies, meet and discuss today, discussions sometimes take the form of whether recognition of particular identities or redistribution of material resources is of most importance. In this thesis, my aim is to explore resources that could contribute to moving beyond this framing of the question, which inevitably implies that one always would need to step back in order for the other to move forward. READ MORE

  4. 18. ENHANCING MOMENTUM PROFITS THROUGH VOLATILITY TIMING AND COST MITIGATION TECHNIQUES

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Nguyen Cao; Natalia Vdovina; [2019-07-02]
    Keywords : momentum; momentum strategy; momentum crash; volatility; transaction costs; turnover; return; volatility adjusted momentum; volatility timing;

    Abstract : Despite the high expected returns of the momentum strategy, there are two main problems associated with it: (i) infrequent but severe losses known as momentum crashes, and (ii) high transaction costs. In this paper, we address the first problem with volatility timing strategies developed by Daniel and Moskowitz (2016) and Moreira and Muir (2017). READ MORE

  5. 19. "Tourism Rules Everything Around Me" : A Case Study on Alienation and Tourism in the Alps

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Franz-Josef Greiter; [2019]
    Keywords : Tourism; Alienation; Mountain Tourism; Acceleration; Extended Case Method; Human Ecology; Austrian Alps; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing industries of the global capitalist economy. In the case of Austria, it is responsible for nearly one sixth of the GDP. This development is connected to an incredible economic growth and structural changes in formerly remote mountain villages in the Austrian Alps. READ MORE

  6. 20. Surveillance Capitalism and Privacy: Exploring Explanations for the Failure of Privacy to Contest Surveillance Capitalism and the Implications for Democracy

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

    Author : Lukas Wohnhas; [2019]
    Keywords : surveillance capitalism; privacy; autonomy; democracy;

    Abstract : This paper explores the tension between privacy and surveillance capitalism and seeks to give explanations why privacy is not effective in limiting the influence of surveillance capitalism on personal autonomy and democracy. The methodology involves a deconstructive reading of the theories of privacy and surveillance capitalism. READ MORE