Essays about: "Global Hierarchies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words Global Hierarchies.

  1. 1. Strategic Spatial Planning in an Evolving Governance Structure : Decolonizing Planning in Namibia

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering

    Author : Tove Söder; [2023]
    Keywords : Namibia; Strategic Spatial Planning SSP ; planning process; decentralization; policy implementation; post-colonial; urban sprawl; spatial planning; strategy implementation; strategy-making;

    Abstract : This research explores the challenges the Namibian government faces in the planning process when implementing policies for strategic spatial planning (SSP). The study considers the entire Namibian planning process which primarily is governed top-down but has since independence adopted policies to decentralize power. READ MORE

  3. 2. Development as more than economic growth : A qualitative analysis on development in the African Union’s migration policy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Ayaat Abdelaziz; [2022]
    Keywords : migration policy; African Union; migration-development nexus; postcolonialism; critical development;

    Abstract : An increased global attention has been placed on the effects of migration on development, particularly in Africa, due to the increase in remittances to the continent. The African Union (AU) has negotiated multiple migration frameworks and conventions to promote development in this arena. READ MORE

  4. 3. A feminist critical discourse analysis of Sida’s gender ideology

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

    Author : Clara Viklund Bornhauser; [2022]
    Keywords : Postcolonial theory; International development cooperation; empowerment; intersectionality; power systems;

    Abstract : This study offers a feminist critical discourse analysis of how Sida’s discourses can be viewed as consolidating a gender ideology and power asymmetries in gendered social orders. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) offer the theoretical and methodological framework to the investigation of gender ideology in Sida’s discourses. READ MORE

  5. 4. How social behaviour in juvenile Brown trout (Salmo trutta) are regulated by social hierarchies and exposure to the benzodiazepine oxazepam

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Elin Johansson Kvarnström; [2022]
    Keywords : Behaviour; Brown trout; Dominance; Ecotoxicology; Exposure; Fish; Oxazepam; Pharmaceutical; Salmo trutta; Social status;

    Abstract : Improved global healthcare rises the production and consumption of human pharmaceuticals. Insufficient wastewater treatment systems and unregulated downstream impacts causes pharmaceutical contamination of surface waters with trace residues in countries covering all continents. READ MORE

  6. 5. Extraction for the Green Transition: An Eco-Marxist actor analysis of lithium governance in Bolivia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Julian Dannefjord; [2021]
    Keywords : Bolivia; lithium; extractivism; climate change; energy transition; actor analysis; Eco-Marxism; John Bellamy Foster; metabolic rift; ecological imperialism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Bolivia holds among the biggest reserves of lithium in the world. Lithium-ion batteries are essential components in electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines, and are therefore crucial for a global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Meanwhile, the extraction process of lithium can cause large environmental damage. READ MORE