Why is the state a central concept in studying politics? Once described as “the shadow which falls upon almost every human activity” (Heywood‚ 2007: 89)‚ the state has traditionally been at the center of much political analysis because it is regarded as the highest form of authority‚ being inextricably linked with sovereignty‚ and as the supreme law-making body in a society (Garner et al.‚ 2012: 7). The state shapes and controls‚ and where it does not‚ it regulates‚ supervises‚ authorizes or
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1. Berger says that "Discourse analysis... focuses attention not only on the content of written material but on the style that writers use‚ the language they use to express themselves‚ and the strategies they adopt to get their ideas across. The focus‚ we may say‚ is on the ’how’ not the ’what’" (p. 174). Explain the difference between the "how" and the "what." Instead of concentrating on the content they concentrate on the style of the content. When reading a review of a movie‚ we are still reading
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Ministry Of Higher Education and Scientific Research University Mohamed Lamine Debbaghine-Setif Faculty of Letters and Languages Department of English Language and Literature An MA Research Proposal in Anglo American Studies Field of Study: British civilization and literature. Title: “The Other” Name of the student: Haddad Amel Name of the supervisor: Bennani Soumia
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Back In. Boulder‚ Colorado and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. Enloe‚ Cynthia (1990). Bananas Beaches & Bases Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley‚ Los Angeles‚ California and London: University of California Press. Foucault‚ Michel (1977). Discipline and Punish. Harmondsworth. Grant‚ Rebecca (1991). “The Sources of Gender Bias in International Relations Theory” in Rebecca Grant and Kathleen Newland (eds.)‚ Gender and International Relations. Suffolk‚ Great Britain:
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HISTORICISM: - A critical practice that gives equal weighting to literary and non-literary texts. - It insists on the textualization of reality (from Derrida) and the premise that society is governed by the collusion between discourse and power (from Foucault). - It
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Insanity as Redemption on Contemporary American Fiction is a book written Barbara Tepa Lupack. This books holds six chapters about six different literary pieces including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s chapter‚ “Hail to the Chief”. It mainly talks about “inmates running the asylum.” In the specified chapter of the novel‚ Lupack gives some introductory paragraphs about Ken Kesey‚ his life and his reasons for writing this story. Barbara Tepa Lupack says Ken Kesey was a “psychedelic outlaw and a
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20th century continental philosophy embraced schools of thought such as phenomenology and existentialism. The major influences that this type of philosophy had were thinkers such as Martin Heidegger‚ Jean-Paul Sartre‚ Maurice Merleau-Ponty‚ Michael Foucault‚ and Jacques Derrida. (Continental philosophy‚ Britannica) Structuralism is defined as a method of analyzing phenomena mainly characterized by contrasting the elemental structures of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition. This is a school
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selfless concern for the wellbeing of others. Utilitarianism: the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority. Biopower: is a term coined by French scholar‚ historian‚ and social theorist Michel Foucault. It relates to the practice of modern nation states and their regulation of their subjects through "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations". Totalitarianism:
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Marxists view the audience to the mass media as passive and this then allows the hypodemic syringe idea to come into play. Marxists believe the mass media is a instrument of the ruling class and through the media the ruling class ideology is ’injected’ into our heads. This is able to happen as the ruling class own the means of production so have control over society‚ e.g Rupert Murdoch who owns sky‚ the sun newspaper‚ the times newspaper‚ sunday times and much more Right wing buisnesses. Lukes would
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“In many of his female-centered stories‚ Hawthorne shows the need to control woman’s sexuality or to insist upon her purity with a type of morality play whose sexual dynamics correspond to the theories of nineteenth-century sexuality that Foucault has set forth (Howard). Both stories generally deal with same topic: the ingenious scientist seeking to expand the boundaries of his practice by conducting an unorthodox experiment on a live human test subject‚ the test subject being the woman who
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