Sökning: "humanitarianism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade ordet humanitarianism.

  1. 1. Assisting in the Shadows : Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics

    Författare :Priscilla Solano; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; criminalisation; human rights; humanitarian crisis; humanitarianism; movement; poverty; transit migration;

    Sammanfattning : The Tamaulipas tragedy in 2010 proved a turning point for transit migration politics. This was one of the worst massacres on Mexican territory, in which 72 undocumented migrants, mostly from Central America, were kidnapped, tortured, and their dead bodies piled up in a ditch at a local ranch in the northern Mexican state. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism

    Författare :Daniel Møller Ølgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; humanitarianism; digital media; technopolitics; postphenomenology; mediation theory; power; materiality; imaginaries; algorithms; social media; virtual reality; apps;

    Sammanfattning : Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Exercising Peace : Conflict Preventionism, Neoliberalism, and the New Military

    Författare :Mattias Viktorin; Ulf Hannerz; Gudrun Dahl; Dominic Boyer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; security; humanitarianism; neoliberalism; intervention; ethics; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study takes the changing role of the military as a starting point for exploring a set of broader ongoing processes at the intersection of security and humanitarianism. The focus is on one particular assemblage, described here as conflict preventionism. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Time Warps : Refugees and the Experience of Waiting in Rural Sweden

    Författare :Rikard Engblom; Oscar Pripp; Don Kulick; Mahmoud Keshavarz; Kristine Synnøve Nepstad Bendixsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; refugees; migration studies; rural studies; waiting; temporality; humanitarianism; securitization; ethnology; ethnography; integration; immigration control; hospitality; vulnerability; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the ways in which refugees’ experience of time is warped when they come to Sweden. It is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Avesta, a small municipality in rural Sweden. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Hurricane of Passion : Popular Politics and Emotion in Late Georgian England 1792-1812

    Författare :Alvar Blomgren; Sennefelt Karin; Magnus Linnarsson; Margaret Hunt; Katrina Navickas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Emotion; popular protests; class; gender; urban history; charivari; violence; radicalism; loyalism; conservatism; Pitt’s terror; sympathy; humanitarianism; slavery; capitalism; anger; hate; shame; honour; pride; fear; love; loyalty; joy; laughter; historia; History;

    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