Search for dissertations about: "CONSTITUTION MAKING"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words CONSTITUTION MAKING.
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1. Decisions on democracy : The politics of constitution-making in South Africa 1990-1996
Abstract : Constitution making was at the very centre of the-troubled but ultimately successful SouthAfrican transition to democracy. Despite divergent and contradictory demands on thenature of a future democratic constitution, and the ever-present risk of a return to armedconflict in a vicious circle of violence and distrust, the South African patties reached acompromise that so far has been the foundation of six years of multiparty democracy. READ MORE
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2. Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics : An Exploration in Artistic Research
Abstract : How does film become a political act? That is the question that the artistic research project Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics revolves around. Taking Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the constitution of the political arena as its point of departure, this dissertation reflects on the aesthetic mechanisms that underlie contemporary strategies for collective and feminist filmmaking. READ MORE
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3. Towards a Phenomenology of Repression - a Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge
Abstract : This is the first book-length philosophical study of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Freud’s theory of the unconscious. The book investigates the possibility for Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology to clarify Freud’s concept of the unconscious with a focus on the theory of repression as its centre. READ MORE
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4. The Participation Myth : outcomes of participatory constitution building processes on democracy
Abstract : Since the early 1990s a growing number of constitution building processes in countries transitioning from authoritarian rule or recovering from war or severe institutional crisis have involved public participation. This increase stems from an assumption made by many peacebuilding scholars and practitioners that public participation in constitution building will lead to higher levels of democracy. READ MORE
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5. The Art of Making Democratic Trouble : Four Art Events and Radical Democratic Theory
Abstract : Heated debates and strong emotions occasionally arise in the public sphere in the wake of an art object. The interaction that follows becomes part of what we as citizens share in a democracy, with its particular conditions of political speech and democratic exchange. READ MORE