Essays about: "Feminist Security Studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words Feminist Security Studies.

1. 1. From Policy to Practice : Addressing the Challenges of Women Refugees in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Johan Diez; [2023]
   Keywords : Peace and Conflict Studies; Refugee Policy; UNHCR; UN Women; Peace; and Security Agenda; Bidibidi Refugee Settlement; Yumbe District; Uganda Refugee Policy; Local Action Plan; National Action Plan; Ethnography; Applied Social Sciences; Case Study; Constructivism; Document Analysis; Thematic Analysis; Interviews; Women in Development; Women and Development; Gender and Development; Women in Forced Migration; Decentralization; Negative Peace; Positive Peace; Situational Peace; Cultural Violence; Structural Violence; Direct Violence; Positive Peacebuilding; Feminist Peace Theory;

   Abstract : This applied social sciences case study examines the efficiency of the ‘Yumbe Local Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security’ in addressing the perceived and experienced adversities of women refugees in the Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda. This is done by collecting data from the Bidibidi settlement through interviews and discussions with the refugee and host population, as well as with relevant organizations and governmental actors. READ MORE

3. 2. Choices and Rules in Informality : A case study on public policy implementation and obstacles to formalizing the domestic work sector in Argentina

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Tilda Rådström; [2023]
   Keywords : Domestic workers; domestic work sector; informal work; public policy implementation; social policy; financial incentives; informal institutions; rational choice theory; Argentina; Trabajadoras domésticas; sector del trabajo doméstico; trabajo informal; implementación de políticas; política social; incentivos financieros; instituciones informales; teoría de la elección racional; Argentina;

   Abstract : This study reviews Rational Choice theory and Informal Institutions theory and uses new data to explain the persistence and scale of Argentina's informal domestic work sector. The domestic work sector in Argentina represents a typical case in Latin America: almost entirely dominated by women and high informality levels. READ MORE

4. 3. Being An Agent In Your Own Narrative Of [In]Securities:Creating Safe Spaces : Interpreting the life stories of Afghan women, a qualitative study

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Emma Cederlund; [2022]
   Keywords : Afghanistan; Feminist Security Studies; Life-Stories; Enhancing Agency;

   Abstract : With the recent take back of the country by the Taliban, Afghan women’s experiences of[in]security have again become top-of mind for many. Yet, this renewed focus perpetuates anexisting imagery of Afghan women as powerless victims, with a few rebellious heroines. READ MORE

5. 4. The Single Story from Academia; Narratives of the Bosnian War : Space and other limitations of unpopular or alternative thought, Coding the coders and their coding

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Viktorija Pesic; [2022]
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   Abstract : A study on influential workings of scholars dealing with the Bosnian war. The narratives and discourses discussed and reproduced. Findings of alternative or unpopular narratives that encounter limitation when presenting their results shows how the field of conflict studies have ‘decided perception’ or even bias towards certain narratives. READ MORE

6. 5. A FEMINIST MILITARY? THE SWEDISH CASE An ideational analysis of the perceptions of security that have shaped the role of the Swedish Armed Forces and their current and future military strategic guidance and defence

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alexandra Axelsson; [2021-02-12]
   Keywords : Gender; Military; Swedish Armed Forces; Security Studies; Feminist Security Theory; Classical realism; Ideational analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to contribute knowledge to the current and contemporary debate on the concept of security in relation to feminism, by seeking which ideas that have shaped the role of the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) and their current and future military strategic guidance and defence. Based on the theoretical framework of Feminist Security Theory and Classical Realism in International Relations, this case study seeks to identify these ideas in the SAF’s strategic documents and interviews with SAF Officials. READ MORE