Essays about: "James Scott"

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  1. 1. The Interplay Between the Agency of Civil Society Organizations and Foreign Aid : What does Analyzing the Agency of Civil Society Organizations in Lebanon Reveal About the Possibilities for Transforming the Hegemonic Relationships Within Foreign Aid?

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

    Author : Mohamad Aljounde; [2023]
    Keywords : Hegemony; Aid; civil society; International organizations; Lebanon; MENA;

    Abstract : The flow of political aid into civil society organizations has sparked extensive debates and controversies surrounding the impact of foreign aid on the efficacy of said organizations in recipient countries. These discussions explore foreign aid through theoretical and empirical lenses, investigating its implications on global, regional, and national levels of analysis. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Everyday Practices of Resistance in Chinese Social Media: The Uses of Memes for Civic Engagement

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : ZHUOXIU XING; [2022]
    Keywords : social media; digital media; memes; everyday forms of resistance; Chinese civic engagement; collective identity;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand the everyday use of digital media by Chinese ordinary citizens as new forms of civic engagement under strict online censorship and CCP’s authoritarian control. With the announcement of the Third-child Policy as the analytical background, I adopted a qualitative research method and conducted digitally mediated ethnography on Sina Weibo users. READ MORE

  4. 3. Constructing the Ideal Parent in Post-Genocide Rwanda : Social Engineering and Informality in Kigali Settlements after Genocide

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Amanda Palacios; [2022]
    Keywords : Post-Genocide Rwanda; Informal Settlements; Social Engineering; Governmentality; Parenting Culture; Genocide Studies; Anthropology of Post-Genocide;

    Abstract : Previous studies of post-genocide Rwanda illutrates how nation-building and the government’s urgency to break with the past results in aims to rearrange society in order to prevent further violence and hostility. Developmental aims are also embedded in the broader project of post-genocide nation-building, adapted to promote a new and improved way of life after the genocide. READ MORE

  5. 4. Written in the Sand; The San people, statelessness and the Logic of the State

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jens Hansen; [2015]
    Keywords : San; Statelessness; James Scott; South Africa; Botswana; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The San people of the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa remain stateless, in a region undergoing rapid modernisation. Like other stateless groups, they exist peripherally within the states that they legally and territorially belong. READ MORE

  6. 5. Hidden Transcripts on Public Transportation: A Meta-Methodological Exploration of Visual Ethnography in Qualitative Transportation Research

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Marta Mancheva; [2015]
    Keywords : sustainable development; sustainable urban transport; public transportation; the hidden transcript; mixed method; Instagram;

    Abstract : Better understanding of urban travelers is necessary, as sustainable development is becoming an integral part of transportation policy and practice. A volume of research shows people’s expressed willingness to adopt more sustainable urban travel behaviours, but a general sense of resistance to change is often encountered. READ MORE