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1. 1. Investor’s Legitimate Expectations v State’s Regulatory Power - In Spanish Renewable Energy Saga Context

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

   Author : Ana Maglaperidze; [2023]
   Keywords : international investment law; fair and equitable treatment; legitimate expectations; special representations; due diligence; state’s right to regulate; regulatory objectives; Spanish Renewable Energy Saga; economic crisis; national security; absolute stability; relative stability; balancing exercise; proportionality principle; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : International investment law affords treaty protection mechanisms to investors against host states’ misconduct. One such tool available for investors is the fair and equitable treatment standard and its dominant element – legitimate expectations. READ MORE

3. 2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
   Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

   Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

4. 3. The Executives’ Pandemic

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Florian Sahlqvist; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the exercise of emergency powers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The two cases of Germany and Spain applied disparate models of emergency powers while sharing common traits of federal decentralized power structures. READ MORE

5. 4. The Shifting Power Dynamics Between Indonesia and West Papua in Global Discourse : Narratives in the 50s versus Now

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Mariam S. P. Bonson; [2023]
   Keywords : West Papua conflict; Power Relations; Narratives; Political Discourse;

   Abstract : This Study is concerned with the WP-Indonesia conflict and the development of its narrative since 1949 as well as the shifting in power dynamics. It reveals that the past decades have not changed the essential power dynamic of Indonesia holding the main power by portraying itself as the “protector,” while WP describes them as a “colonising power”. READ MORE

6. 5. Climate, Coloniality and Financialization: A Decolonial Analysis of Global Climate Finance

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Judith Rybol; [2023]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Providing adequate climate finance, meaning funding for mitigation, adaptation or loss and damage, has been very high on the global policy agenda recently. The political economy and ecology behind it are much more complex and morally multidimensional than the mainstream finance world likes to present it though, which results in grave colonial injustices, international debt crises, deepened global inequalities and heightened climate vulnerabilities. READ MORE