Essays about: "Neoliberalism"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 213 essays containing the word Neoliberalism.

1. 31. Gentrifying Practices Affecting Youths’ Habitats

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Hugo Koetsier; [2022]
   Keywords : Gentrification; Lived Experience; Critical Phenomenology; Renoviction; Housing Justice; Habitat; Youths; Järva; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : While Sweden falls short in integrating youths growing up in segregated areas, these disadvantaged neighborhoods are more frequently imposed to profit-driven strategies that result in gentrification. This thesis aims to uncover how gentrification affects the lived experience that youths from disadvantaged areas have of their habitat. READ MORE

3. 32. Makeshift Poetry? The insolvency of neoliberalism and the solvency of the common(s) : A case study of Raumlabor's makeshift intervention Allmänna Badet in Gothenburg, Sweden

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Fabricio Di Fausto; [2022]
   Keywords : Urban commons; Common; Neoliberalism; Makeshift urbanism;

   Abstract : This thesis is the result of a set of personal concerns about, on the one hand, how the debates about the modes of expression of the neoliberal regime - particularly in the so-called "urban world" (assuming that there is something outside the "urban”, which is a discussion I did not have place for)- develop and, on the other, of a feeling of inadequacy in relation to how the so-called “urban commons” are conceptualized by many of its promoters. My way of dealing with these concerns assumes that a conceptual review of both phenomena is necessary. READ MORE

4. 33. Terrestrial Management: Ecological farming in Puerto Rico

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Tracy Trägårdh; [2022]
   Keywords : Terrestrial; management; multispecies; post-qualitative inquiry; plantationocene;

   Abstract : According to the 2022 IPCC report on mitigation of climate change, a transformational change is necessary in every aspect of society, industry and commerce by 2030 in order to keep global temperatures within safe limits. What would this transformation look like and how do we begin? I argue that applying Bruno Latour’s concept of the Terrestrial can help lead us towards the path of transformation. READ MORE

5. 34. Nature Will Not Be Ignored : Ecology and Neoliberalism in the Cinema of Bong Joon-ho

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för koreanska

   Author : Christian Gregory; [2022]
   Keywords : Bong Joon-ho; Korean Cinema; Ecology; Environmentalism; South Korea; Neoliberalism; Capitalism; The Host; Parasite; Snowpiercer; Okja; South Korea; Pollution; Barking Dogs Never Bite; Mother; Cli-fi; climate change;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the filmography of Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho [Pong Chun-ho], and to provide a limited textual analysis of each film divided across two categories: the “explicitly ecological” and “implicitly ecological”. The intent is to, by viewing all of Bong’s films leading up to his critical and commercial success Parasite, argue that Parasite is as much an environmental film as it is critical of neoliberalism and globalization, both of which are common readings of not only Parasite, but all of Bong’s work. READ MORE

6. 35. The Shokuiku Act and its implementation in Kyoto : A study of the Shokuiku promotion plans on national, prefectural and municipal leve

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

   Author : Jenny Nordlund; [2022]
   Keywords : food education; urban farming; policy making; sustainability;

   Abstract : More and more cities are facing depopulation, and Japan’s answer to that is the Shokuiku Act to educate the citizens on food and nutrition. However, the law faced criticism for being too controlling. READ MORE