Essays about: "othering"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 160 essays containing the word othering.
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21. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE
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22. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Otherness and The Abject in Alice Munro's "Dimensions" and "Child's Play"
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : This thesis is aimed at investigating the concepts of otherness and the abject/abjection in the various characters' discourses in the two short stories "Dimensions" and "Child's Play" in Alice Munro's collection Too Much Happiness from a psychoanalytic perspective in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis. Both texts share features of otherness which manifest in various forms in the characters. READ MORE
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23. The refugee crisis: the bane of Normative Power Europe? : A critical discourse analysis investigating the refugee crisis’ (2015-2016) effect on Normative Power Europe
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : The concept of Normative Power Europe (NPE) conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a unique international actor, empowered by a foundation consisting of certain norms and values. Scholars of the NPE underline the significance of discursive representation strategies in the EU’s normative power international identity. READ MORE
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24. ‘In a Way, We Live in a Bubble, and the Outside World is Watching Us.’ : - A Qualitative Case Study on Young Adults’ Views on Communication and (Social) Investment Processes in the Area of Rosengård.
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The residential area of Rosengård in Malmö – Sweden, is one of the many areas included in the ‘million programme’, a program that in the 1960s focused on building a million new homes over ten years in Sweden, meant to provide cheap housing options for the rapidly growing population. Today, areas like Rosengård and the program are often associated with immigrant-dense segregated residential areas with high crime and socio-economic problems. READ MORE
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25. Wake the Sleepwalkers! An Exploratory Analysis of Ontological (In)Security in Czechia and Slovakia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In light of the current situation in the EU, after the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine, Europe is undoubtedly facing a critical situation. This thesis conducts an exploratory analysis of ontological (in)security in Czechia and Slovakia to investigate a region where very few academics have analyzed it from an ontological security perspective. READ MORE