Essays about: "postkolonial teori"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words postkolonial teori.

  1. 1. Martha's Unhomely Quest for the Homely : A Postcolonial Reading of the Protagonist Martha in Doris Lessing's Martha Quest

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Annika Salisbury; [2019]
    Keywords : Doris Lessing; double consciousness; Homi Bhabha; Martha Quest; postcolonial theory; unhomeliness; Doris Lessing; dubbelt medvetande; Homi Bhabha; Martha Quest; postkolonial teori; o-hemlikhet;

    Abstract : The protagonist Martha in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest is born to white British settler parents and grows up in a British colony in southern Africa in the 1930s. Although officially the coloniser rather than the colonised, Martha tries to reject this role mentally, verbally, and physically. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Construction of Truth and the Silence of Responsibility : A discourse analysis on the idea of justice and a Sami Truth Commission

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Valentina Barrios; [2017]
    Keywords : Sami political movement; Discourse analysis; Truth Commission; Reconciliation; Samisk politisk rörelse; diskursanalys; sanningskommission; försoning;

    Abstract : Throughout history the Sami community have been excluded from Swedish society. They were submitted to discrimination, abuse and the denial of rights. Although the political movement of Sami people is long, we have in recent years seen how a demand for truth and justice is taking more space within the official Sami political movement. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria - The future of international law or an abuse of power?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Henna Kjellberg; [2017]
    Keywords : Public International Law; International Public Law R2P; Folkrätt; Responsibility to Protect; Libyen; Syrien; Humanitära interventioner; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Responsibility to Protect, or “R2P”, is a principle that has generated heated debate since its introduction in a report by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) in 2001. Having received an enthusiastic response from member states at the World Summit Outcome in 2005, the United Nations seemed to move into a new era of protecting humanitarian values; that of acting to protect the citizens of states when the states themselves proved unwilling or unable to do so. READ MORE

  5. 4. Whose self-determination? - A critical examination on the right to self-determination and its role during the process of decolonisation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Jenny Nguyen; [2016]
    Keywords : self-determination; human rights; postcolonialism; law; colonisation; decolonisation; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Den här uppsatsen undersöker självbestämmanderätten ur ett kritiskt perspektiv, baserad på postkolonial teori. Genom att undersöka den historiska bakgrunden till självbestämmanderätten kan dess koppling till internationella mänskliga rättigheter samt till koncept såsom suveränitet och nationalism fastställas. READ MORE

  6. 5. Tensions of Universal Claims and Contextual Sensitivities: The Case of Religious Freedom : An examination of Martha Nussbaum and Saba Mahmood’s ways of                             mediating the tensions of religious freedom

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Rebecca Paulsson Vides; [2014]
    Keywords : Religious freedom; liberty of conscience; human rights; universalism; contextualism; postcolonialism; liberalism; universal values; Martha Nussbaum; Saba Mahmood; Religionsfrihet; samvetsfrihet; mänskliga rättigheter; universalism; kontextualism; postkolonialism; liberalism; universella värden; Martha Nussbaum; Saba Mahmood;

    Abstract : This thesis uses a philosophical discussion to explore the tensions that result in the meeting between universal claims and particular contexts regarding human rights and how these tensions can be mediated by exploring the right to religious freedom. In order to do this, two approaches will be studied, one liberal and one postcolonial, represented by Martha Nussbaum and Saba Mahmood respectively. READ MORE