Essays about: "state apparatus"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 37 essays containing the words state apparatus.

  1. 16. Transitional Accountability Only for Some? : Accountability Measures Against Paramilitary Groups

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

    Author : Ana Paula Penalva Torres; [2017]
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    Abstract : Accountability processes in the aftermath of a conflict are complicated policies that seek to serve justice by prosecuting wrongdoers, repairing victims by acknowledging their suffering, and restore social tissue damaged by the war. Despite growing trends in research investigating transitional justice policies and their effects upon societal reconciliation, and the role of stakeholders on their design, little is known about accountability measures for paramilitary groups. READ MORE

  3. 17. Increasing constraints? Civil society organisations in Jordan vis-à-vis the state

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Liza Lunstroo; [2016]
    Keywords : Jordan; Civil society; Non-governmental organizations; NGOs; foreign aid; freedom of the press; Arab uprisings; Middle East.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Jordanian state apparatus is increasingly limiting civil society in Jordan from engaging in open debate, and organisations are gradually inhibited from executing their activities and events. These are the premises on which this research is based, and in exploring them several questions arise. READ MORE

  4. 18. Accidental Citizens: Etherealizing Securitized Identities of Somalis in Kenya; Contesting Representation, Identity and Belonging

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Shamsa Birik Abdi; [2016]
    Keywords : Securitization; Identity; Othering; Belonging; Postcolonial; Al-Shabab; Terrorism; Laclau Mouffe; Discourse Theory; Hegemony; Ideology; Antagonism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Kenyan security apparatus has undergone immense transformations particularly after Kenya’s military incursion into Southern Somalia in 2011. The intervention dubbed ‘Operation Linda Nchi’ was an attempt to protect Kenya’s territorial sovereignty and create a buffer zone against the Somali linked Al-Shabab insurgency. READ MORE

  5. 19. Construction of Crises : Climate, Terror and the Eiffel Tower

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Sara Lundstedt; [2016]
    Keywords : Climate change; Terrorism; Image; Ideology; Apparatus; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This work investigates visualizations of two crises; terrorism and climate change. Focus lies on mediated images concerning Paris 2015, where terrorist attacks had an impact on the following UN climate change conference (COP21). The symbol of the Eiffel Tower was used to portrait both issues and will be studied through a semiotic analysis. READ MORE

  6. 20. Rubbish rules : a critical discourse analysis of neoliberalizing processes in Swedish waste management

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Sara Skarp; [2016]
    Keywords : neoliberalization; discourse theory; waste incineration; waste management; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : A linear system – one that extracts materials and then puts them in landfills and incinerates them, thus creating a demand for even more materials – is fundamentally unsustainable. Swedish waste management is thought by many to be progressive and at the forefront, when looking at the waste hierarchy. READ MORE