Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"JC Political theory"”.
-
Freedom as the Way of Life: Power, Truth-Telling, and the Politics of Michel Foucault’s Critical Philosophy
Since 2016, the proliferation of post-truth discourse has created a condition that affects the order of democracy in the west. Though many scholars have explored this condition through various frameworks, one of the topics that is rarely investigated is the new character of freedom and truth, as …
-
Justice for Grasshoppers
… and explains why those committed to political liberalism can get on board with more radical demands, such as the 4-day work week. Chapter 1 explains why existing approaches to social justice don’t offer satisfactory answers to the question of how much access to free time citizens …
-
Popular sovereignty without populism: autonomy, democracy, and citizen endorsement
… by the intrinsic importance of dividing political power equally: it reacts and seeks an institutional correction to elites’ arrogating to themselves disproportionate power in the political process. Second, populism can be seen as a form of anti-elitism that is motivated by the view that …
-
A Feminist Politics of Discursive Embodiment: Rethinking Iris M. Young's Gender Seriality
… reflect the plurality of women and their diverse political claims. Exploring the theorisation of 'women' in the context of the politics of difference, this thesis analyses the reciprocal relationship between the construction of 'women' and the pluralisation of feminist politics, by articulating a …
-
The political discourse of globalisation: globalising tendencies as self-induced external enforcement mechanisms
… international economic conditions of domestic political change, a more comprehensive understanding of the globalisation experience emerges if we also examine the domestic political conditions of international economic change. Viewed through such a perspective, New Labour’s appropriation of the …
-
The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… two major themes in recent studies of Hume’s political philosophy: on the one hand, the implications, the nature, and the extent of Hume’s anti-rationalistic scepticism; and on the other hand, his continuation of and contribution to the natural law tradition, as it had been generally developed …
-
Crowd funding: between politics and antipolitics
… but allows this community to sustain strong political claims. The tension in the divide between the public and the private is the core of this investigation: the emphasis put on action within the crowd funding community rein- forces a world view that puts forward the anew in the form of a …
-
Tracing the social processes of change : the political economy of Mexico's transformations
… deterministic accounts, and ignoring social and political circumstances. Its focus is on the application of theories of change to illuminate broad trajectories of reform. By presenting a theoretically informed empirical narrative of contemporary transformations in Mexico, it is possible to …
-
Green political theory: nature, virtue and progress
… critique and reconstruction of green moral and political theory. In chapter 1, the critical-reconstructive approach and spirit of the thesis is outlined in terms of contributing to the process of developing a green political theory that is different from 'ecologism' or ideological accounts of …
-
Rethinking critical theory between Rancière and the Frankfurt School
… and neglected way of thinking about three political practices: a politics of memory, struggles for recognition and emancipatory education. I argue it can offer either a supplement or an alternative to recent Frankfurt School theorisations of these practices, particularly in relation to …
-
Regulation as a Redistributive Policy: A Political Economy Approach
… policy and its implications on economic and political outcomes. In the first chapter of this thesis, I remark that regulation has distributive and welfare consequences, making it a powerful political tool. I show that when the regulation is on goods for which all of the citizens have similar …
-
Processes of Social Change in the Works of Badiou and Laclau
No theory of social change can circumvent the task of specifying the process that transforms the existent order into a different order, and determining that which accounts for the difference between those two orders. This thesis examines whether the theories of social change found in the works of …
-
Rethinking misrecognition and struggles for recognition: critical theory beyond Honneth
… that takes such struggles beyond group political conflicts into everyday social experiences. I identify two problems in Honneth’s formulation of struggles for recognition: his premise that emotional experiences of disrespect motivate struggles for recognition is contradictory without an …
-
Newspaper campaigns, publics and politics
… campaigning journalism, where a newspaper seeks political influence and claims to do so on behalf of its readers or a wider public. It is a production and content study of campaign journalism in the Scottish press, examining the journalists’ orientation to their readers, both in terms of social …
-
Do Rights-Based Moralities Cause Climate Change? Balancing the Rights of Current Persons and the Needs of Future Generations
This thesis explores the relationship between rights-based moral systems and climate change. It argues that supporters of rights-based moralities must give the realisation of rights priority over non-rights-based moral concerns. It further contends that future persons cannot possess rights that …
-
Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the present
… Foucault’s and Adorno’s portraits of the political culture of liberalism. Whereas the relevance of Adorno’s insights is manly confined to the processes of socialization characterizing the welfare states in the first half of the 20th century, I argue that Foucault’s later inquiries shed an …
-
Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law- a Nigerian case study
… neglected aspect of transitional justice theory and state practice. The thesis of the research is that the judicial institution, as the third branch of government ought to be held accountable for its role in past governance in transitional societies. This is particularly important to …
-
Populism and hegemony in Ernesto Laclau. Theory and strategy in the Italian Communist Party and the Ecuadorian Citizens' Revolution
… often hinders their respective explanatory and political purchase. Moreover, Laclau's arguments in support of left-wing populism appear not to examine in sufficient depth some important issues, such as the non-necessary but also potentially problematic relationship between populism and democracy …
-
Problematising ‘happiness’: A critical explanation of the UK’s happiness agenda
… objective and as a central focus within social, political and economic research, with public policy makers around the world having demonstrated a growing interest in national accounts of ‘wellbeing’. In the UK context, this growing interest is comprised of a perceived need to ‘know’ ‘happiness’ …
Page 1 of 2