Essays about: "unity of nation"

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  1. 16. Towards an ASEAN Human Rights Framework : Rapid Development in the Kingdom of Cambodia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Mårtensson Camilla Marie; [2016]
    Keywords : Asian human rights; human rights; development; ASEAN; Cambodia; economic; cultural; field study; Mänskliga rättigheter; ASEAN; Kambodja; Utveckling; Utvecklingsstudier; handelsunion; ekonomisk; kulturella rättigheter;

    Abstract : The Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) has since its origins in the late 1960’s been connected to the emphasis on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and the regional need for economic development. Through the intense years and debates that followed the first ASEAN Declaration the unity has made significant contributions to the Human Rights discourse due to the challenges and possibilities that surfaced. READ MORE

  3. 17. The pervasiveness of nationalism: “How the world should be politically organised” : The rhetorical construction of European identity in the ‘Brexit’ debate.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Elisabeth White; [2016]
    Keywords : Brexit; nationalism; European identity; EU; discourse;

    Abstract : The June 2016 UK referendum on EU membership is indicative of the challenges facing the EU, in terms of an apparent lack of unity and solidarity among its component member states. The very fact of a potential ‘Brexit’, and the ramifications that it might have, call into question the concept of European identity, indicative of a sense of belonging and attachment to a community beyond the confines of the nation-state. READ MORE

  4. 18. “Whose nation?” : A study of nation-building in Namibia

    University essay from Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Robin Lagergren; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Using a critical discourse analysis this study focuses on the Namibian nation-building process. The former colony gained its independence in 1990 from the South African apartheid administration. It was this oppressing social structure that gave the people a common enemy to unite against. It was from this unity that the Namibian identity sprung. READ MORE

  5. 19. Idealism and Guilt in the Forest : Cooper, Emerson and the American Wilderness Myth

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tommy Feldt; [2012]
    Keywords : The Last of the Mohicans; wilderness; America; Emerson; myth;

    Abstract : James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. READ MORE

  6. 20. Like the sea in a drop... : Transborder minority identities in the Carpathian basin - Hungarians

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Katalin Henriksson; [2006]
    Keywords : discourse; nation; identity; memory; diaspora; Hungarians; Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Ever since nationalism emerged over a century ago, discussions have been lively about its survival or declination. These questions still are actual and in the process of globalisation and internationalisation perhaps even more so. Multiethnic societies grapple with nationalism and ethnic problems all over the world; so also in Central Europe. READ MORE