A master thesis from Aalborg University
Without safety, no freedom An analysis of the discourses of freedom within surveillance
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Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2020
Submitted on
2020-06-04
Pages
79 pages
Abstract
Dette projekt har undersøgt de klassiske frihedsbegreber baseret på John Locke og Thomas Hobbes, og yderligere tre mere moderne koncepter; negativ, positiv og republikansk frihed. Disse koncepter har hjulpet os med at forme vores forståelse af de forskellige friheds diskurser og hvordan de bliver til i relation til videoovervågning. I vores analyse af hvordan overvågningsdebatten afslørede forskellige friheds diskurser, viste vi at de politiske partier ikke altid fulgte deres traditionelle ideologiske principper og hvordan de fandt nye alliancer på tværs af det politiske landskab. For at nuancere feltet yderligere har vi også analyseret NGO’en Justitia.
This project has studied the classical conceptions of freedom based on John Locke and Thomas Hobbes as well as three more modern concepts, negative, positive and republican freedom. These various concepts helped us shape our understanding of the ways discourses of freedom can be constituted in relation to video surveillance. In our analysis of how the surveillance debate revealed various discourses of freedom we showed that political parties did not always match with their traditional ideologies and found new allies across the political spectrum. To further nuance the field we included an analysis of the NGO Justitia.
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