Sökning: "fear of violence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden fear of violence.
1. Rädsla för förlust av liv och heder
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to examine honor conflicts that arose between girls with Swedish-foreign origin and their parents, but also to explore an honor conflict that resulted in an extreme form of violent crime, namely the murder of a young girl. The participants were different family members with foreign origins. LÄS MER
2. Fear of violence and gendered power relations : Responses to threat in public space in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Several cases of single repeat offenders in urban space have raised public concern in Sweden during recent decades. Few studies have been conducted on consequences of the kind of ‘hostage situations’ that emerge when one individual offender causes fear and affects a larger group of people in a specific place. LÄS MER
3. Rädslans politik : våld och sexualitet i den svenska demokratin
Sammanfattning : This thesis argues that men’s violence, and women’s fear of that violence, constitute a central problem for democracy. Women’s possibilities of participating in society are drastically limited by their bodily integrity being threatened, both in public and in the home. LÄS MER
4. The Hurricane of Passion : Popular Politics and Emotion in Late Georgian England 1792-1812
Sammanfattning : This book casts new light on the struggle over reform in Britain following the French Revolution by studying how Georgians from across the social spectrum sought to enlist popular passions, either in defence of the established order – or in order to subvert and challenge it. Inspired by the history of emotions, practice theory, and social movements theory it introduces the concept of ‘emotional tactics’, defined as the language, material objects, and practices used to encourage emotions for political purposes. LÄS MER
5. Violence in the Midst of Peace Negotiations : Cases from Guatemala, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka
Sammanfattning : Why do peace talks fall apart as a result of violence? The present study addresses the question of why and how violence sometimes changes the dynamics of peace negotiation processes. Incidents of violence may produce friction between and within parties. LÄS MER