Search for dissertations about: "Claude Lefort"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Claude Lefort.

  2. 1. While We Wait : Democratization, State and Citizenship among Young Men in Tunisia's Interior Regions

    Author : Karim Zakhour; Michele Micheletti; Hans Agné; Ellen Lust; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democratization; state; citizenship; Tunisia; youth; Claude Lefort; neoliberalism; waiting; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation has sought to develop new ways of understanding democratization, and by extension democracy, by attempting to capture the experience of democratic transitions. The thesis has investigated the Tunisian democratization processes that followed the overthrow of Ben Ali in 2011. READ MORE

  4. 2. Liberal Intellectuals and Human Rights in the Turkish Public Sphere : Contestation and Pragmatism from the 1990s to the AKP-era

    Author : Andrea Karlsson; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
    Keywords : Turkey; intellectuals; human rights; rights claiming; rights claims; liberal; AKP; secularism; Armenian Genocide; Kurdish conflict; cultural trauma; nationalism; Claude Lefort; democracy; discursive community; nationalism;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the public interventions, rhetoric, and actions of liberal intellectuals in Turkey between the early 1990sand 2012 regarding the rights of Kurdish and Islamic actors and restrictions on discussing the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Theanalysis of diverse texts published by the interconnected intellectuals – newspaper columns, academic articles, policy papers,reports, and manifestos – and the institutions they used shows how an effective counter-public could take shape in relation to thestate and to dominant publics. READ MORE