Essays about: "colonial elite"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words colonial elite.

1. 6. The Over-research & NGOisation Paradigm of the West Bank: Applied Cultural Analysis on the 'futility of research' and the 'burden of occupation'

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Alejandra Sonja de Bárcena Myrsep; [2020]
   Keywords : over-research; NGOisation; Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Study Up; research ethics; applied cultural analysis; West Bank; Bedouins; autoethnography; Palestinian civil society; performativity.; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : El Paradigma de la Sobre-investigación y ONGización de Cisjordania: Análisis cultural aplicado de ‘el peso de la ocupación’ y ‘la inutilidad de la investigación’ Cisjordania atrae a innumerables investigadores debido la etiqueta intratable del conflicto. Por un lado, estos investigadores se sienten atraídos por el conflicto Palestino-israelí por razones logísticas: accesibilidad al área, prestigio académico, amplia financiación, subvenciones y oportunidades de ‘networking. READ MORE

3. 7. Canadian mega-mining in Central Mexico: Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Violence and Organized resistance 1992-2016

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Ingrid Altamirano Vazquez; [2017]
   Keywords : Ecologically unequal exchange; coloniality; colonial domination; environmental load displacement; geostrategic mineral reserves; political ecology; colonial elite; national interest; sovereignty; accumulation by dispossession; militarization; armed neoliberalism; environmental degradation; environmental racism; poverty; violence; systemic violence; state violence; war on drugs; repression; extractivism; sustainability; culture; power structures; economic dependency.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the historical dynamics of ecologically unequal exchange, coloniality of power, and systemic violence embedded in mining activities. With the use of a combined Marxist and De-colonial critical approach, it accomplishes a political ecology analysis of Canadian mega-mining in central Mexico and the socioenvironmental conflicts related to it, particularly in Cerro de San Pedro and the sacred territory of Wirikuta, between 1992-2016. READ MORE

4. 8. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
   Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE

5. 9. What could be a peacemaking strategy based on relative deprivation and provention perspective in Casamance?

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Ebou Jammeh; [2013]
   Keywords : Conflict Resolution Provention; Relative Deprivation; Basic Human Needs Satisfaction; Protracted Social Conflicts; Casamance; Senegal;

   Abstract : The Casamance conflict for decades has been unable to produce a sustained peace settlement. This project utilised among others, the relative deprivation and basic human needs satisfaction theories respectively and concludes that the conflict is underpinned by relative deprivation, strongly felt and driven by the elite group. READ MORE

6. 10. Transition in Crisis : The Impact of Interaction between Informal Institutions and Political and Economic Elite on Transition- The Case of Dalmatia and Croatia

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

   Author : Gorana Johansson; [2011]
   Keywords : Institutions; transition; reform; Croatia; Dalmatia;

   Abstract : Croatia is among countries that are still in process of institutional restructuring. Recent global economic crisis in Croatia is still very much present. Many country reports on Croatia are witnessing of the slow reform process in the country. Major reforms have been omitted. READ MORE