Essays about: "political articulation"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 36 essays containing the words political articulation.

1. 21. The Subject of Women’s Rights: An Investigation of CEDAW’s (Straight) Construction of Family-­Related Human Rights

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Lynn Kathleen Pasterny; [2015]
   Keywords : CEDAW; Sexual Orientation; Family; Intersectional Discrimination; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The history of international human rights law shows that the articulation of human rights has often been scripted around the experiences of some rather than all. For example: men. READ MORE

3. 22. The Meaning of the Logical Framework Approach for NGO-officials in Colombia - A phenomenological study of results-based management in development cooperation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alfred Nisses; [2015]
   Keywords : LFA; Results Based Management; International Development; Phenomenology; Aid Effectiveness; New Public Management; Accountability; Colombia; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The quest for effectiveness and results has become a top political priority in the international development sector during the last decade. One of the prevailing tools for effectiveness and goal fulfilment for development projects is the Logical Framework Approach (LFA). READ MORE

4. 23. “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free”: Rethinking feminist politics in the 2014 Swedish election campaign

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Kirill Filimonov; [2015]
   Keywords : feminism; feminist politics; identity politics; electoral communication; intersectionality; radical democracy; discourse theory; hegemony; antagonism;

   Abstract : This study explores the hegemonic articulation of ‘feminist politics’ by the Swedish political party Feminist Initiative (Feministiskt initiativ) during 2014 national parliamentary election campaign. The analysis is carried out on two levels: the construction of the hegemonic project of feminist politics and the construction of an antagonist. READ MORE

5. 24. Law, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Historical Specificity : An Analysis of the Juridical Paradigm of Aesthetic Genre between 1750 and 1850

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Ludwig Schmitz; [2015]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Abstract Within the conceptual framework of biopolitics and political theology, the author draws from the work of Foucault, Agamben, Derrida, Benjamin, and Schmitt to discuss the historical and theoretical conditions for an aesthetic theory structured according to a legal logic. The thesis discusses the two contrary positions of Foucault and Derrida on the historical specificity of madness, in order to argue that the same theoretical and methodological impasse emerges in subsequent discussions of biopolitics and the ontology of law. READ MORE

6. 25. From Issue to Form : Public Mobilization and Democratic Enactment in Planning Controversies

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Per Sherif Zakhour; [2015]
   Keywords : Displacement of politics; post-politics; democratic deficits; public participation; planning controversies; democratic politics; NIMBYism;

   Abstract : Academics, experts and politicians have come to the conclusion that democracy is in trouble. The contemporary understanding is that new competitive pressures from the outside and unruly publics from the inside have drastically changed the way politics is enacted. READ MORE