Essays about: "decoloniality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 44 essays containing the word decoloniality.
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1. The Coloniality of Food Governance in Sweden : An explorative feminist decolonial discourse analysis of the Swedish Food Agency
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : The Swedish Food Agency is responsible for giving guidelines and recommendations for businesses producing, importing, selling, and serving agricultural products in Sweden. The general discourse of these guidelines and recommendations are based on the notion of safeguarding the consumer from potential risks and harms. READ MORE
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2. How to fail successfully: the struggles of PAR within academia
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten; Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : This research seeks to explore the origins and values of participatory action research, as well as its role in transforming possibilities to knowledge production and shaping equal relationships between research participants. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and decoloniality and with a focus on the experience of the asylum interview, the research seeks to explore the ways that those epistemological paradigms intertwine with participatory research to deconstruct the dichotomy between researcher and research subject (expert/community) and re-balance the power differentials embedded within academia, canonical knowledge production and traditional research methodologies, to initiate change. READ MORE
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3. ACHIEVING GENDER-JUST PROGRAMMES: A CASE STUDY ON SOUTH AFRICA’S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The aim of this paper is to research how transitional justice programmes have to this day inadequately addressed gender-based violence by specifically examining the overall framework of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in its goal towards reconciliation as a case study. To gain a thorough analysis on how its framework impacted its inclusion of women’s experiences of conflict and how it could have worked towards having a more transformative effect on the lives of black women in South Africa. READ MORE
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4. Crafting Textile Knowledges : A decolonial study of the Iku/Arhuaco material culture in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg (Världskulturmuseet)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/ModevetenskapAbstract : The return of objects that belong to ethnographic collections to their places of origin is one of the topics of discussion that, despite not being new, has been gaining more and more relevance today. Taking the Iku indigenous craft collection in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg as a case study, I pursue to develop an object-based methodology that increases and deepens the understanding of the notion of ethical stewardship, while joining current debates on indigenous heritage and decoloniality. READ MORE
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5. A Trend Towards Climate Reparations?: Contemporary Perspectives on Global Climate Justice by the European Commission vs Political Actors of the Global South
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : This thesis aims to answer the following questions: How does the EU Commission approach the issue of climate justice, more specifically climate reparations? What discursive patterns and inconsistencies are present in the EU Commission’s stance on climate justice? What are the relationships between the EU Commission and actors representing the Global South on the topic of climate reparations? How does the EU work with climate financing today on an international level? Finally, what demands are coming from the Global South? In order to respond to these questions, critical discourse analysis is used to analyze three documents. This analysis is combined with postcolonial interpretations, specifically postcolonial Europe and decoloniality. READ MORE
