Essays about: "subpolitics"

Found 3 essays containing the word subpolitics.

  1. 1. How the story of control limits the reproduction of knowledge : a study of narratives in the Swedish Climate Policy Action Plan

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

    Author : Jonas Linde; [2020]
    Keywords : Climate Change; Master narratives; Story of control; Discourse; Narratives; Storylines; Swedish climate policy; De-politicization; Apocalyptic imaginary; Frontrunner; Sweden; Green Keynesianism; Power; Knowledge; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Responses to combating worsening climate change are legitimized through narratives employed in government policy which build on existing master narratives about climate change produced in the subpolitics of international mega-science mainly influenced by IPCC as an expert authority. In Sweden the climate law forces the government to produce a Climate Policy Action Plan (CPAP) every four years that seeks to show how the set net zero emission target by 2045 is to be reached. READ MORE

  3. 2. Shopping for Change – the discourses of marketized nonprofit fundraising

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Johanna Arnesson; [2012-09-17]
    Keywords : fundraising; nonprofit; marketization; commodification; civil society; consumer power; political consumerism; individualization;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the articulation of marketized philanthropy within the discourse of nonprofit fundraising. The objective is to find out how fundraising works as a discursive practice - how is the world constructed, who and whom are participants in this world, and why should the presumed donor get involved? It does so from a critical approach, connecting the business of fundraising to theories of subpolitics, individualization, consumer power, and the argument that market logics serves a depoliticizing function within this context. READ MORE

  4. 3. We Are What We Do - Reflexive Environmentalism in the Risk Society

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Amy Chin; [2009]
    Keywords : environmentalism; social movement; environmental movement; subpolitics; ekologism;

    Abstract : Studien syftar till att undersöka ekologismen i den sociala rörelsen We Are What We Do, som försöker förverkliga samhälleliga förändringar genom kollektiva små handlingar. Genom en kvalitativ fallstudie analyserar författaren rörelsens strategier som ska inspirera och motivera människor att agera, hur den utnyttjar märke och marknadsföring för att mobilisera kollektiva handlingar och bygga en gemenskap, och rörelsens visioner i det subpolitiska sammanhaget. READ MORE