Essays about: "militarization"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 37 essays containing the word militarization.

1. 21. Storytelling techniques in protest reporting : A comparative analysis of narratives on the Ferguson unrest by AJE, BBCW and RT

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Madeleine Ceder; [2017]
   Keywords : Strategic narrative; protest; Ferguson; protest paradigm; global media; Al Jazeera English; BBC World News; RT;

   Abstract : In a global media environment characterized by change and conflict, narratives are especially useful to understand how the media form and distribute shared understanding of how the world works and who the important actors are. As the borders between local and global politics are blurred in the digital media landscape, protesters are in increased rate turning their placards to global broadcasters’ cameras, especially when political movements such as the U. READ MORE

3. 22. Canadian mega-mining in Central Mexico: Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Violence and Organized resistance 1992-2016

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Ingrid Altamirano Vazquez; [2017]
   Keywords : Ecologically unequal exchange; coloniality; colonial domination; environmental load displacement; geostrategic mineral reserves; political ecology; colonial elite; national interest; sovereignty; accumulation by dispossession; militarization; armed neoliberalism; environmental degradation; environmental racism; poverty; violence; systemic violence; state violence; war on drugs; repression; extractivism; sustainability; culture; power structures; economic dependency.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the historical dynamics of ecologically unequal exchange, coloniality of power, and systemic violence embedded in mining activities. With the use of a combined Marxist and De-colonial critical approach, it accomplishes a political ecology analysis of Canadian mega-mining in central Mexico and the socioenvironmental conflicts related to it, particularly in Cerro de San Pedro and the sacred territory of Wirikuta, between 1992-2016. READ MORE

4. 23. The ‘Self-enterprising Care Taker’ on ‘Home Deployment’: Contesting Constructions of Femininity in Extended Military Family Deployment Support in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Fredrik Eklund; [2017]
   Keywords : Militarization; Sweden; Feminism; Gender; Military Family Deloyment Support; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study takes a critical feminist anti-militarist perspective on the function and purpose of the support that families of soldiers are provided by militaries during deployment. The context in focus is Swedish deployment support of extended families of soldiers, the material selected is from the website and the forum of the voluntary peer and mentor based support organization Invidzonen. READ MORE

5. 24. Women in leadership and sexual violence : A case study of the role of women in FARC

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

   Author : Julia Eriksson; [2017]
   Keywords : Peace; conflict; gender; sexual violence; FARC; Colombia; rape; masculinization; militarization;

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6. 25. Zero poaching and social sustainability in protected areas : a study of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Hitesh Pant; [2016]
   Keywords : zero poaching; fortress conservation; Chitwan; Gramsci; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Protected areas (PAs) embody a historical legacy of value contestation and human exclusion. While the rise of community-based conservation in the 1980s sought to reconfigure this mechanism by running a counter narrative arguing that biodiversity conservation and development were mutually reinforcing objectives, exclusionary PAs continue to maintain a strong position in the conservation discourse. READ MORE