Search for dissertations about: "post-politics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word post-politics.

2. 1. In Want of a Sovereign : Metapolitics and the Populist Formation of the Alt-Right

   Author : Karl Ekeman; Mats Rosengren; Maria Karlsson; Yannis Stavrakakis; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; populism; post-politics; metapolitics; Alt-Right; Ernesto Laclau; discourse theory; post-foundationalism; masculinity; humor; laughter; memes; Trump; rhetoric; Rhetoric; Retorik;

   Abstract : The thesis examines the politico-rhetorical dynamics around the 2016 US presidential election through the lens of the Alt-Right, not as a movement but as a signifier in broader political struggles to shape the political space of representation. It employs Ernesto Laclau’s post-foundationalist theory of populism to challenge the conventional perspectives that the Alt-Right was an extension of a radical right-wing movement or ideology. READ MORE

4. 2. Through a post-political gaze : on the ideological loading of democracy in the coverage of Chávez's Venezuela

   Author : Ernesto Abalo; Leonor Camauër; Ulrika Olausson; Rune Ottesen; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ideology; Democracy; Hegemony; Journalism; International journalism; Post-politics; Critical discourse analysis; Media studies; Venezuela; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Rooted in ideology critique, this dissertation studies the construction of democracy in the coverage of Venezuela during the era of President Hugo Chávez. The aim of this endeavor is twofold. First, the dissertation aims to understand the relationship between ideology and the construction of democracy in journalism on foreign political phenomena. READ MORE

5. 3. Climatised Moves : Climate-induced Migration and the Politics of Environmental Discourse

   Author : Giovanni Bettini; LUCSUS; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; climate change; migration; climate security; adaptation; resilience; post-politics;

   Abstract : This work seeks to de-naturalise climate-induced migration (CM). Combining political ecology and post-foundational theories, I read CM as a construct that reifies a series of phenomena into an issue to be researched and governed. READ MORE

6. 4. Political Dimensions of Entrepreneurship : Exploring Competing Discourses in a Marginalized Urban Community Aspiring for Social Change

   Author : Amelia Olsson; Christian Maravelias; Karin Berglund; Pascal Dey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurship; critical entrepreneurship studies; social entrepreneurship; the political; resistance; co-optation; social change; post-politics; discourses; chains of equivalence; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : Entrepreneurship is a celebrated phenomenon in today’s society. Students are taught to become entrepreneurial and governments develop policies to support entrepreneurship based on the belief that it generates economic growth and societal development. READ MORE

7. 5. No alternatives : The end of ideology in the 1950s and the post-political world of the 1990s

   Author : Daniel Strand; Bosse Holmqvist; Mats Hallenberg; Howard Brick; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intellectual history; political theory; philosophy of history; ideology; end of ideology; post-politics; modernization theory; Cold War; anticommunism; 1950s; 1990s; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

   Abstract : In the 1950s, scholars in Europe and the United States announced the end of political ideology in the West. With the rise of affluent welfare states, they argued, ideological movements which sought to overthrow prevailing liberal democracy would disappear. READ MORE