Search for dissertations about: "Populism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word Populism.

  2. 1. Dirty coal: Industrial populism as purification in Poland's mining heartland

    Author : Irma Allen; Sverker Sörlin; Sabine Höhler; Christopher Hann; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coal; populism; Poland; Silesia; environmental humanities; postsocialism; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö;

    Abstract : In the second half of the 2010s, far-right populist parties gained increasing power and influenceacross Europe, and around the world. Core to their ethnonationalist, anti-elite agenda, and theiremotive politics, has often been a defense of fossil fuels, threatening action to address the climatecrisis and raising the spectre of fascism. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. Paths to power and patterns of influence : The Dravidian parties in south Indian politics

    Author : Ingrid Widlund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; India; political parties; party organisation; mobilisation; leaders; populism; clientelism; authority structures; broking; leader cult; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis has resulted from a study of the three, regional, Dravidian, parties in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu-a region that has a reputation for its 'personality politics'. The purpose is to analyse the relationship between modes of mobilisatioand the structures of authority in these political parties, that undeniably, although in different degrees and on different ground bestow on their leaders eminence beyond the formal position of rank. READ MORE

  6. 4. Bringing Europe Down to Earth

    Author : Anders Hellström; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European Union Commission; European integration; European identity; identity politics; discourse theory; nationalism; cosmopolitanism; unity-in-diversity; globalisation; an area of freedom; security and justice; migration; immigration; populism; the Euro.; eastern enlargement; Europe; EU; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : Why is it considered more European to vote in the affirmative of the Euro than it is to vote against it? Why is not possible to be a populist and a ?Good European? at the same time? What makes an illegal immigrant different from a tourist? These questions all concern the limits of what it means to be, act and think as Europeans in Europe. In the political process of bringing the nations and peoples of Europe together, Europe is imagined as a distinct community. READ MORE

  7. 5. Global history or inter|nationalist discourse!? : Unsettling the 'comfort women' issue

    Author : Anna-Karin Eriksson; Mats Sjölin; Douglas Brommesson; Maria Stern; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; comfort women ; historical justice; human rights activism; populism; deadlock; Statsvetenskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : Survivors of the ‘comfort’ system, the state-sponsored regime of military sexual exploitation and a core institution in the expansion of the empire of Japan from 1932 to 1945, continue to go unrecognised almost 80 years past 1945 and 30 years after the breakthrough by human rights activists in 1991. That such a brutal regime of sexual exploitation remains unrecognised by the state is remarkable and merits attention. READ MORE