Essays about: "The Colonial area"

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  1. 1. The impacts of a cancelled large-scale agricultural investment on smallholder farmers’ land use and access

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

    Author : Philipp Erbach; [2023]
    Keywords : large-scale; agriculture; small-scale farming; power relations; knowledge; post-colonialism; land; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Large-scale agricultural investments have seen a rise in popularity over the years, promising economic growth, food security, and poverty eradication around the globe. Through the rising involvement of development aid agencies with private investors, the number of foreign large-scale investments in developing countries significantly increased. READ MORE

  2. 2. Balancing Authority and Freedom: Rousseau's Path to Resolving Educational Dilemmas in Malawian Primary Schools

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Author : Tadala Stambuli; [2023]
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    Abstract : The Malawi primary education system is bifurcated into public primary schools, free primary schools sponsored by the government of Malawi, and private primary schools, primary schools run by private entities as a business. The two primary education branches subscribe to the polar opposite schools of thought on authority: traditional and progressive teaching methods respectively. READ MORE

  3. 3. Visual Arts as Development Communication - Challenging Development Concepts : Case study Baguio City, Philippines

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Aina Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : Visual arts; development communication; intercultural translation; hybrid knowledge systems;

    Abstract : International Development and its aims are often contested in post-colonial discourses and by postcolonial thinkers. The fundamental concepts of development, as we see in the sector of aid and international development, steer the values, execution and evaluation of development projects across the globe, as well as national development policy. READ MORE

  4. 4. Sweet and Salty: Colonial and Modern Corporate Commodity Exploitation in Northeastern Brazil

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Flavia Copia Sperandio; [2022]
    Keywords : modern corporation; sugar cane monoculture; coloniality; rock salt mines; extractivism; Brazil; decolonial theory; business human rights.; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis is a historical comparative analysis of the social and environmental impacts of past colonial exploitation and the modern corporate extraction and exploitation of natural resources and commodities. The thesis examines these issues through the case studies of sugar monoculture in the Northeast region of colonial Brazil (16th and 17th Century) and the sinking of Maceió (also in Northeastern Brazil) due to the corporate exploitation of rock salt mines (1976-2019). READ MORE

  5. 5. Participation as a Way for a Postcolonial Design of ICT4Ds

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Georgios Koletis; [2022]
    Keywords : C4D; ICT4Ds; design for social change; participatory design; postcolonialism; stereotypes; knowledge and identity creation; pluriverse; universalisms;

    Abstract : The ongoing digital transformation of our societies impacts all aspects of our lives aswell as the international development and the design for social change. Having said that,in this paper I studied whether the design of participatory ICT4Ds can engage the localend-users/beneficiaries in the processes of knowledge and identity creation, and thus,achieve their self-representation in order to break the colonial-based stereotypes. READ MORE