Sökning: "the discourse of social science"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 323 avhandlingar innehållade orden the discourse of social science.
1. Det sociala livets drama och dess manus : diskursanalys, kön och sociala avvikelser
Sammanfattning : We are the eyes of our discourses. This is the point of departure. The disourses make us see, think, talk, act. be and move in certain ways. LÄS MER
2. The intelligence discourse : the Swedish military intelligence (MUST) as a producer of knowledge
Sammanfattning : The Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Directorate (MUST) is a producer of knowledge, a knowledge that is fundamental for decisionmaking in foreign and security policy. The intelligence knowledge production is often held as objective, value neutral, and with the intention of ‘speaking truth onto power’. LÄS MER
3. The Use of Hope : Biopolitics of Security During the Obama Presidency
Sammanfattning : Through a compilation of four research articles, this PhD thesis investigates ‘hope’ as a biopolitical technology. It interrogates the use of hope by the United States security apparatus, on the one hand, to pre-empt processes of radicalisation and, on the other hand, to prepare the subject of security to cope with permanent insecurity. LÄS MER
4. Getting the transport right - for what? : What transport policy can tell us about the construction of sustainability
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies transport as a governing tool that shapes the physical environment and human society, as well as having environmental impacts. The aim is to learn what policy for transport can say about what sustainability means and does. LÄS MER
5. The dynamics of policy formation : making sense of feelings of public unsafety
Sammanfattning : Every policy problem has inherent value dimensions. It is on the basis of values that a state of affairs is perceived as undesirable, and thus acknowledged as a problem. This makes the process of defining and negotiating the meaning of a problem an essentially political process. LÄS MER
