Essays about: "youth power in politics"

Found 4 essays containing the words youth power in politics.

  1. 1. Protest Movements and the Climate Emergency Declarations of 2019: A New Social Media Logic to Connect and Participate in Politics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Joseph Doolen; [2020]
    Keywords : Social media logic; participatory culture; connective action; Twitter; climate change; political participation; collective action; identity; protest movements;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between contemporary climate protest movements (Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future) and governmental bodies in European countries that declared a climate emergency in 2019. The primary contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate how emerging communication practices by these movements compare to the perceived influence of such practices among political decisionmakers in their governing bodies’ votes for a climate emergency declaration. READ MORE

  3. 2. Place, youth and memory as resistance : An ethnographic case study of discussions about impunity at Londres 38,espacio de memorias

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Alexander Mattiasson Nazar; [2019]
    Keywords : Chile; Impunity; Collective Memory; Ethnography; Discourse Analysis; Chile; Straffrihet; Kollektivt minne; Etnografi; Diskursanalys;

    Abstract : ” You don’t talk about politics or football around the dining table” is a Chilean expression that well describes how the dictatorship (1973–1990) is attached to the societal soul, with people’s diversifiedrelationships to its legacy. For the outside world, Chile is a thriving democracy that got out of Pinochet’s iron grip, but for many Chileans, the transition to democracy has excluded demands for justice and a real influence. READ MORE

  4. 3. Women’s Participation in the Burmese Ethnic and Student Oppositional Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Emelie Svensson; [2015]
    Keywords : Burma; Myanmar; Social Movement; Ethnic and Student Oppositional Movement; Student and Youth Organisation; Feminist Standpoint Theory; Women’s Participation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The official notion of women in Burma is that they are equal to men but happy with their non- political domestic role in society. This notion undermines the work and struggle done by women in the oppositional movement. READ MORE

  5. 4. Youth unemployment in Sweden : from the perspectives of party as actor and party as outflow of society

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Lily Myrhed; [2006]
    Keywords : youth unemployment; Sweden; structure-agency; political parties; political youth organisations;

    Abstract : The aim was to analyse how the political parties, relate to questions of young individuals in Sweden, particularly to the question of youth unemployment. The theoretical basis encompassed two perspectives explaining party politics - “the party as outflow of society” and “the party as actor”, derived from the structure-agency school. READ MORE