Search for dissertations about: "power"

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  2. 1. Power Games : Rules and Roles in Second Life

    Author : Maria Bäcke; Blekinge Tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; NATURVETENSKAP; HUMANIORA; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANITIES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; performance; role-play; Second Life; online worlds; virtual worlds; virtual; digital space; rules; hierarchies; subversion; power; negotiation; make-believe; digital games; online world; virtuality; reality; hierarchy; authority; governing; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study investigates how the members of four different role-playing communities on the online platform Second Life perform social as well as dramatic roles within their community. The trajectories of power influencing these roles are my main focus. READ MORE

  4. 2. Conceptual Politics in Practice : How Soft Power Changed the World

    Author : Stephanie Christine Winkler; Mark Rhinard; Linus Hagström; Patrick Thaddeus Jackson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; academia policy nexus; alliance; China; concepts; critical concept studies; decline; feedback loops; interaction effects; International Relations; Japan; power shift; power; reification; rise; science; security; sharp power; smart power; soft power; travel; United States; internationella relationer; International Relations;

    Abstract : Concepts are a key feature of academic research and international politics. Despite the fact that interpreting, classifying and communicating the world through concepts has far-reaching social and political consequences, their various roles and complex dynamics remain poorly understood in International Relations (IR). READ MORE

  5. 3. Vulnerability and Power : Social Justice Organizing in Rockaway, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy

    Author : Sara Bondesson; Daniel Nohrstedt; Elin Bjarnegård; Annica Kronsell; Försvarshögskolan; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; social vulnerability; disaster risk reduction; social movements; power; empowerment; Hurricane Sandy; Rockaway; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Social vulnerability; Disaster risk reduction; Social movements; Power; Empowerment; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This is a study about disasters, vulnerability and power. With regards to social justice organizing a particular research problem guides the work, specifically that emancipatory projects are often initiated and steered by privileged actors who do not belong to the marginalized communities they wish to strengthen, yet the work is based on the belief that empowerment requires self-organizing from within. READ MORE

  6. 4. Enigmatic power? : relational power analysis and statecraft in Japan's China policy

    Author : Linus Hagström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Foreign relations; Japan; China; Utrikespolitik; Japan och Kina;

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  7. 5. The Power of Symbolic Power : An Application of O'Neill's Game of Honour to Asymmetric Internal Conflict

    Author : Ylva Isabelle Blondel; Mats Hammarstrom; Barry O'Neill; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Peace and conflict research; asymmetric power; Algeria; internationalisation; internal conflict; symbolic strategy; symbolic power; honour; game theory; public events; media audience; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and conflict research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

    Abstract : Powerful states can lose wars to militarily weaker opponents. This can only be understood by moving away from an over-simplified traditional definition of power and by incorporating the symbolic dimensions of power. READ MORE