This thesis shows that, despite many rumors that in the summer of 2015 German newspapers would report on refugees with a bias, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reports very balanced and...Show moreThis thesis shows that, despite many rumors that in the summer of 2015 German newspapers would report on refugees with a bias, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reports very balanced and objective concerning refugee related topics.Show less
This thesis researches the rise of China from a US political discourse perspective by taking a post-structuralist approach. It employs a critical discourse analysis to analyze elitist political...Show moreThis thesis researches the rise of China from a US political discourse perspective by taking a post-structuralist approach. It employs a critical discourse analysis to analyze elitist political discourse of the Obama administration for securitization moves of the rise of China. This research provides a unique perspective on the US-China security relationship and adds to the understanding how language shapes the meaning of security as well as foreign policy. This thesis shows that in discourse of the foreign policy executives of the Obama administration between May and October 2015 there are substantial instances in which the rise of China is being discussed as a threat to US economic and military securities. In line of this threat discourse, security measures are promoted and legitimized. These are among others: investing in military technology development, supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, promoting Chinese economic reforms, and investment in developing cyber capabilities.Show less
Level of representativeness of electoral systems have polarised the academia between the Proportional Representation (PR) and First-Past-the-Post (FPTP). The UK is one of the few examples in Europe...Show moreLevel of representativeness of electoral systems have polarised the academia between the Proportional Representation (PR) and First-Past-the-Post (FPTP). The UK is one of the few examples in Europe that uses FPTP as an electoral system and it has heavily been criticised by the scholars about the lack of representativeness of such system. The 2010 General elections have triggered the debate on the level of representativeness when Liberal Democrats could not obtain the expected number of seats when compared to the vote they have won. The 2015 General election have resulted in the traditional way of having two parties dominating the parliament, but this time UKIP obtained 12% but only 1 seat, which is an example of disproportionality.This paper also calculates the possible outcome of 2015 elections if the UK was using PR as a system. Then the comparison between the two systems are conducted by using diagrams and concrete number of seats under each system. In the end, comparison of each system on the basis of representativeness is discussed with the help of the vote/seat relation.Show less
This Bachelor essay discusses the social-spatial segregation in contemporary Brazilian society as represented in the feature film Que horas ela volta? (2015) by the Brazilian director Anna Muylaart...Show moreThis Bachelor essay discusses the social-spatial segregation in contemporary Brazilian society as represented in the feature film Que horas ela volta? (2015) by the Brazilian director Anna Muylaart, award winner in the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. It portrays the interaction of social classes within the private space. The cinematographic representation of the restructuring of power relations established in Brazilian society is examined through narrated places, along the line of place as a social constructed space, based on the theory by Henri Lefebvre, and woven together with intersubjective time-space-identity constructions based on the idea of bakhtin’s chronotope. Two spatial themes in the film, the area of the private pool and the connection of the private with the outside world, are analyzed as elements of representation of the restructuring of power relations. It will be argued that the film makes clear how colonial principles are internalized by all social classes and still structure social-spatial relations in contemporary Brazilian society, however obnubilated, while new generations contest and renew these persistent structures.Show less
