Sökning: "Ulf Mörkenstam"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden Ulf Mörkenstam.
1. Om ”Lapparnes privilegier” : Föreställningar om samiskhet i svensk samepolitik 1883-1997
Sammanfattning : In discussions on the rights of minority groups, the group itself is generally taken for granted. It appears either irrelevant or timeless — unaffected by historical change and political practice. In the present thesis the role of this presumptive view of the group as a base for minority politics is problematised. LÄS MER
2. The Remaking of American Strategy toward Iran and Iraq : Outline of a Theory of Foreign Policy Change
Sammanfattning : This study sets out to develop a realist-constructivist theory of foreign policy change. The theory claims that whenever policymakers believe that the distribution of power favors an expansive grand strategy or necessitates retrenchment, they will act accordingly. LÄS MER
3. Mellan tystnad och tal : Flickor och hedersvåld i svensk offentlig politik
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the contestations around the question of how violence against young women from ethnic minorities was articulated in Swedish public policy debates from 1995-2008. One core question investigated in this study is how the “new” problem of co called honour killings is categorised and understood within gender equality policies against violence and policies of immigrant integration. LÄS MER
4. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory
Sammanfattning : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. LÄS MER
5. The Challenge from Nationalism : Problems of Community in Democracy
Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines the relationship between democracy and nationalism from a normative standpoint. A point of departure is the assumption that any democracy requires a referent community, or demos. Nationalism has, in practice, frequently provided democracies with this sense of community during the last two centuries. LÄS MER
