Essays about: "truth claims"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words truth claims.

1. 1. Mining for Whose Future? The Recycling of Narratives for Continuous Extraction : A discursive study of the Gállok mine

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Julia Engström; [2023]
   Keywords : Environmental Justice; Sámi rights; Gállok; Critical Discourse Analysis; Green growth; Green transition; Mining;

   Abstract : The Exploitation of land for economic growth has been an ongoing issue for locals’ rights to land, especially indigenous people. In Sweden, EU’s largest producer of Iron ore, the conflict between the State, indigenous Sámi, and mining industries have caused many controversies over the years, where mining projects repeatedly infringe upon land inhabited by Sámi. READ MORE

3. 2. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

4. 3. The economy of knowledge in migration policy : Understanding Georgia's migration policy within the modern world system

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

   Author : Tamar Nadibaidze; [2022]
   Keywords : migration; neoliberal rationality; knowledge paradigms; truth claims; best practices; governance; power; democracy; civil society; Georgia; EU.;

   Abstract : The study aims to analyze Georgia's Migration Strategy 2021-2030 and its elaboration process within a multi-stakeholder format. The Strategy along with the annual action plans and a logic framework, sets a state policy on migration. READ MORE

5. 4. From Victim to Perpetrator : A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Swedish News Media in the Wake of MeToo

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Beatrice Tylstedt; [2021]
   Keywords : Feminist critical discourse analysis; defamation; MeToo; Feministisk kritisk diskursanalys; förtal; MeToo;

   Abstract : Four years after the Swedish MeToo-movement, ten women who publicly accused men of sexual violence have been convicted of the crime defamation. Framed as realizing questions of truth, sexual violence and the roles victim and perpetrator, the convictions have caused an extensive and polarized debate in Swedish news media. READ MORE

6. 5. Under the shade of rumour refutation : a critical analysis of #PoliceRefuteRumour campaign on Chinese social media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Mingyi Fang; [2021]
   Keywords : Civic Culture; Antagonism and Hegemony; Myth; Rumour; Rumour refutation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Rumour refutation is a series of campaigns that the Chinese authorities invest in combating 'the overflow' of network rumours, especially since 2017. These campaigns reflect the Chinese's knowledge of rumour as false and harmful. READ MORE