Essays about: "Resistencia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word Resistencia.

  1. 1. Ecosystems Services in swidden agriculture in the Peruvian tropical Andes : the Kechwa-Lamas farm-forestry system

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Geannine Gisset Chabaneix Portocarrero; [2023]
    Keywords : swidden agriculture; ecosystem services; Peru; Amazon;

    Abstract : In the Amazon, life supporting services are importantly associated to forest areas. Nevertheless, the connection of ecosystem services to agricultural systems it is also of great importance, because agriculture is one of the most important causes of degradation and loss of these areas. READ MORE

  3. 2. A broken promise: an insight into the killings of social leaders and the elites' resistance to the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform in Colombia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Carol Sánchez; [2021]
    Keywords : armed conflict; Colombia; social leaders; human rights defenders;

    Abstract : Four years after the signing of the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Armed Conflict in Colombia, the promises made to achieve a stable and lasting peace have by no means materialized at the expected pace. The implementation of the Agreements has focused on the demobilization of the FARC-EP while structural transformations to reduce the causes for the existence or prolongation of the conflict have been neglected. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sustainability assessment of sanitation systems in El Alto, Bolivia : A pre-study

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Malin Smith; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable sanitation; peri-urban; urine-diverting dry toilet; waste stabilization pond; stakeholder; Hållbar sanitet; peri-urban; urinsorterande torrtoalett; stabiliseringsdamm; intressent;

    Abstract : The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 6.2 aims at providing access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and to end open defecation by 2030. Yet, 47 % of the population in Bolivia lacked access to basic sanitation services in 2012. READ MORE

  5. 4. Diffractive Assemblies and Invertebrate Spaces: Communal Struggle in the Mexican Anthropocene

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Talia Velez; [2020]
    Keywords : Latin-America; subaltern; postcolonial; decolonial; ethnology; cultural analysis; original peoples; Indigenous peoples; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The importance of spaces of resistance lies in their ability to subvert and even change the hegemonic discourse. However, and despite extensive research on geopolitics and space-making processes, little has been said on the power that subaltern spaces can have in this area. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sustainable life, not sustainable development - “Other” epistemologies in sanitation policy in Rural Brazil : The case of Brazil’s National Program for Rural Sanitation

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Layla Nunes Lambiasi; [2020]
    Keywords : sanitation; rural; Brazil; PNSR; decolonization; political ecology.; saneamento básico; rural; Brasil; PNSR; decolonização; ecologia política;

    Abstract : Despite decades of global efforts to provide the whole of the world’s population with appropriated water and sanitation, these remain one of the biggest challenges of our time, with the gap being even greater in rural areas. Commonly dominated by technological and managerialist solutions, the field of water and sanitation have been subject, since its origins, to rationalities grounded in western knowledge. READ MORE