Search for dissertations about: "counterpublic theory"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words counterpublic theory.
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1. The Rise of Online Counterpublics? : The Limits of Inclusion in a Digital Age
Abstract : This thesis explores how online platforms mediate the reproduction of privilege, by employing the concept of counterpublics. The term, which has been central to the feminist critique of mainstream public sphere theory, denotes the alternative publics that emerge in response to various exclusions by dominant publics with the goal of targeting and influencing the same. READ MORE
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2. In the gap between legality and legitimacy : illegal hunting in Sweden as a crime of dissent
Abstract : It may be challenging to see how illegal hunting, a crime that ostensibly proceeds as shoot, shovel and shut up in remote rural communities, at all communicates with the regime. Examining the socio-legal interplay between hunters and state regulation, however, clarifies illegal hunting to be part of a politically motivated pattern of dissent that signals hunters’ disenfranchisement from the polity. READ MORE