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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"crisis discourse"”.
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Crisis discourse, response, and structural contradictions in Thai Buddhism, 1990-2003
Is the Thai Buddhist Sangha in crisis? This is a ubiquitous question posed and discussed in social, academic and monastic circles in Thailand over the past decade, a questioning which intensified after the 1997 Asian economic crash that began in Thailand. However, despite the often intense …
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A Symbolic Prison: A Prisoner's Story as Masculinity Crisis Narrative in Bronson
… its connection to the contemporary masculinity crisis discourse or the belief that traditional notions of masculinity are in peril due to changing gender norms and women's social progress. I argue Bronson privileges a narrow, violent conception of masculinity through its presentation of violence …
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The Price of Entry: How Online Harassment Influences Girls' Identity, Privacy and Speech
… this dissertation argues that the current “crisis” discourse surrounding girlhood and technology obscures more than it reveals. By way of conclusion, it offers new approaches to conceptualizing girlhood and recommendations for stemming the rise of online harassment.
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A Values-Affirmation Model for Higher Education Crisis Communication
… required the University of Virginia to engage in crisis communication, to respond to a chaotic situation in the hopes of restoring order and regaining legitimacy through the use of appropriate discourse. Although a university is required to craft and deliver a public response to crisis situations, …
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The Figures of Crisis: The Reflections of the 2008 Financial Crisis as Ideological Discourse of Capitalism
… the reflections on the 2008 financial crisis by Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are read as literary texts with formal features that perform an ideological function. Their memoirs of the financial crisis contain a set of figures and formal elements that create the …
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Representing the 'Crisis' in Masculinity : British and North American Male Playwrights, 1990-2005.
The concept of a '"crisis" in masculinity' came to prominence in Britain and North America during the 1990s. This phenomenon developed out of several decades in which the notion of 'the subject' came under critical scrutiny, both from developments in postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and …
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A case study into critical practice for fashion publishing: Taking an editorial position with Address
… a critical perspective on fashion, and the ‘crisis discourse’ (McWhirter, 2016, 21) that was taking place in fashion media about lack of criticality in the early 2010s. Due to the absence of field-specific frameworks to understand critical practice in the context of fashion publishing, the …
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The Political Economy of Transpositions: A Study of the Eurozone Crisis
… a reinterpretation of the so-called Eurozone crisis, arguing that its crisis character is overstated and that it is rather a normal stage in the process of European banking sector integration. Particularly, I maintain that it is neither a sovereign debt crisis caused by profligate peripheral …
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Populism in times of crisis an analysis of online populist discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict [Il populismo in tempi di crisi. Un'analisi del discorso populista online durante la pandemia di COVID-19 e il conflitto Russia-Ucraina]
Considerando che i social media costituiscono dei canali particolarmente efficaci attraverso cui i leader populisti possono interagire direttamente con ‘il popolo’, e che il populismo prospera nei periodi di crisi, il progetto si propone di analizzare come leader populisti di destra e di sinistra …
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Legitimising Discourses and the Efforts to Reform the European Union’s Fiscal Governance Arrangements
… following on from the financial and economic crisis, this thesis considers how legitimising discourses are shaping the efforts to reform EU fiscal governance. Norman Fairclough’s ‘moderately constructivist’ three-dimensional framework for CDA is drawn upon. This approach is also combined with …