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Publication by Spencer & Oppermann
The article by Alexander Spencer and Kai Oppermann argues that the Leave narrative of Brexit was successful in the 2016 referendum in part because it conformed to one of the well-established narrative genres of tragedy, comedy, satire and romance.
New student coordinator (actually since June 2019): Nina Rösler
Hello, my name is Nina Rösler and I am one of the two student coordinators of the PACS master.
New publication by Kristina Roepstorff
This paper wants to contribute to critical scholarship on humanitarian action by offering a discussion of the conceptualisation of the local that informs the localisation agenda. To this end, the paper provides a brief overview of the localisation discourse in humanitarian action
New publication by Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Daniel Beck and Alexander Spencer
The article by Tim-Heinkelmann-Wild, Daniel Beck and Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer examines the social construction of the ‘refugee’ in the German tabloid media by investigating an instance in 2016 in which specific refugees from Syria were constructed not as terrorists or as victims but as heroes following their help in the arrest of a terrorist in Chemnitz.
