Essays about: "slum"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 95 essays containing the word slum.

1. 1. “You can not pay my rent forever” Voices from Dandora: Exploring Perspectives on Slum Tourism through Resident, Tour Guide, and Swedish Tourist Experiences

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Linnea Reuterberg; [2023-10-26]
   Keywords : Slum tourism; Kenya; Sweden; Dandora; Neocolonialism; Dependency;

   Abstract : In line with the increase of Globalisation, the demand for more unconventional tourism has been on a rise during the last decades. More Western tourists want to get insight into the everyday life of citizens in the country they are visiting. READ MORE

3. 2. “Eden to Hell in the Space of a Few Seconds” : an ecocritical and postcolonial analysis of Alex Garland’s The Beach

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Hanna Strömberg; [2022]
   Keywords : The Beach; postcolonial ecocriticism; utopia; wilderness; pastoral;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes the cultural concepts of wilderness, utopia, and the pastoral in relation to The Beach from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives. Evidently, the pastoral is critical in shaping the Western idea of wilderness, and the utopistic mindset plays an equally crucial role in wilderness gazing. READ MORE

4. 3. 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

5. 4. Challenges of Community Policing and Community Safety in the slum Community of Westpoint. District Number 7, Monsterrado County, Liberia : None

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

   Author : Grace Akose Badu; [2022]
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   Abstract : Background: Police are most at risk, and so are the residents due to the vulnerability in the slum community of WestPoint. Despite the efforts of the government to improve community living standards by encouraging the role of Community policing in crime prevention, there is instead an increase in the crime rate and insecurity in the neighborhoods. READ MORE

6. 5. Migration into Urban Areas: a Sociological and Micro Perspective : A thematic analysis of how migration is used as a tool to gain personal development in Zambia

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Juliette Iturralde Ulfsax; [2022]
   Keywords : Push and pull factor; symbolic capital; gender display; doing gender; urbanisation; migration;

   Abstract : The pace of urbanisation in less developed regions creates consequences which cause problems such as housing, overcrowding and lack of living standards in the urban areas. A problem connected more to developing countries than developed countries that earlier went through the same process. READ MORE