Sökning: "the politics of truth"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden the politics of truth.

1. 1. Politics and Truth : Heidegger, Arendt and the Modern Political Lie

   Författare :Anna-Karin Selberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Cecilia Sjöholm; Peg Birmingham; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-truth; alternative facts; modern political lie; totalitarianism; Heidegger; Arendt; truth; politics; image-making; myth; art; facts; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Sammanfattning : In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” the word of the year. In the ongoing debate about post-truth it is generally assumed that facts and truth have ceased to be relevant to politics. LÄS MER

3. 2. Justice and Politics : On the Depoliticization of Justice Claims in the Work of Truth Commissions

   Författare :Alexandra Lebedeva; Helen Andersson; Elena Namli; Jaana Hallamaa; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arendt; Derrida; depoliticization; Foucault; human rights; justice; Morocco’s Equity and Reconciliation Commission; restorative justice; Ricœur; testimony; transitional justice; truth; truth commissions; Etik; Ethics;

   Sammanfattning : Truth commissions have become a widespread and normalized institutions for addressing past human rights violations. One of the central ideas behind the concept of truth commissions is that it is necessary to establish the truth about the past and allow victims to speak publicly about the violations to which they have been exposed. LÄS MER

4. 3. The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic

   Författare :Helena Gonzales Lindberg; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Maps; Power; Politics; Representation; Visual politics; Critical cartography; the Arctic; Google Maps; NSIDC; USGS; kartor; makt; politik; representationer; visuell politik; kritisk kartografi; Arktis; Google Maps; NSIDC; USGS;

   Sammanfattning : As maps are widely used, circulated, and recognised, they have consequences for how people view and understand the world. They mediate political meaning-making and frame the conditions for political alternatives to emerge or to be silenced. LÄS MER

5. 4. Climate Science for Policy? The knowledge politics of the IPCC after Copenhagen

   Författare :Jasmine Livingston; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; climate change; science; politics; IPCC; knowledge; performance;

   Sammanfattning : The rise of climate change as an issue of global concern has rested on scientific representation and understanding of the causes and impacts of, and responses to climatic change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in particular, has been central to how climate change has become known as a global political problem. LÄS MER

7. 5. Den utvidgade människan : Om Eyvind Johnsons Krilontrilogi

   Författare :Per Anders Wiktorsson; Ulf Olsson; Claes Ahlund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; World War II; neutrality; discourse; Swedish history; restrictions on freedom of speech and press; Eyvind Johnson; modernism; parody; allegory; personification; puns; gender; reading practices; truth-telling; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to understand the relation between a given literary work and the specific historical conditions under which it was written. Here, the conditions are those generated by World War II, the threats of Nazism, and the neutrality of Sweden, materialized as restrictions on the freedom of speech and press in Sweden during the war. LÄS MER