Sökning: "individual legal activism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden individual legal activism.
1. Judicial Review and Individual Legal Activism : The Case of Russia in Theoretical Perspective
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with judicial review of governmental action and individual legal activism. It investigates whether judicial protection of individual rights and individual legal activism, within the field of public law, can be seen as an alternative or complement to electoral control of political and administrative powers. LÄS MER
2. Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran : A Socio-Legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a result of a qualitative study that investigates the socio-legal status of trans persons who undergo sex-change surgery in contemporary Iran. It examines how social practices of gender shape the lives of trans men and trans women in Iranian society. LÄS MER
3. Chains of Trust : Networks of Persistent Resistance in Digital Activism
Sammanfattning : Digital manifestations and their networks are seen as agile, but fragile, with the Internet facilitating fast, low-cost activism by bridging actors, distributing information, and circumventing gatekeepers. From this perspective, mediated collective action and digital activism are theorized through the understanding of the Internet as a medium which affords lowered costs and risks for activists. LÄS MER
4. Call for Protection : Situating Journalists in Post-Cold War Romania in a Global Media Development Discourse
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the development of journalism in post-Cold War Romania, and it does so with a particular interest in the transnational dimension this entails.Many NGOs and international organizations are currently seeking to monitor journalists’ situations in countries around the world, while at the same time aiming at having the whole world aligned with international standards of the journalistic profession. LÄS MER
5. Perplexities of the personal and the political : how women's liberation became women's human rights
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus is primarily on the uses of personal stories in activism at the intersections of politics and legal discourse. LÄS MER