Essays about: "Coloniality of power"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 22 essays containing the words Coloniality of power.

1. 11. Speaking is Silver, Silence is Gold - A decolonial study examining Swedish exceptionalism and colonialism and the struggle of the Sámi people in Swedish elementary school textbooks from 1930-2013.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Lovisa Warpman; [2022]
   Keywords : Sámi; Sweden; Silence; Exceptionalism; Decolonial theory; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The narrative regarding Sweden and the self-understanding often excludes its colonial past and instead presents a “moral superpower”, deeply connected to the welfare state. While the nation has described itself as exceptional, the Sámi people have struggled for rights, acknowledgement and visibility over a long period of time. READ MORE

3. 12. Carbon Offsetting, a new form of CO2lonialism? : Local implications of tree-planting projects in East Africa

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Utveckling och internationellt samarbete

   Author : Cecilia Larsson; Moa Orvehed; [2021]
   Keywords : Decoloniality; Political Ecology; Carbon offsetting; Tree planting projects; Social impacts; Power Structures; East Africa;

   Abstract : Carbon offsetting has a growing presence on the global climate action agenda where it is promoted as a triple-win for the environment, business and development. However, the opinions on carbon offsetting are divided. READ MORE

4. 13. Agrotechnology Colonization 4.0 : Digital agriculture discourses and new coloniality in Argentina and beyond

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

   Author : Passero Sergio; [2021]
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   Abstract : Argentina is among the largest producers of transgenics and its export occupies a strategic place in the GDP. In 2020, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and tech-companies lobbied the government to adopt Agro-Technology ecosystem as a strategic plan to intensify and add technologies that present uncertain risk. READ MORE

5. 14. I learn where I am : Decolonial exploration of institutional responses to diversity in Swedish universities

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Asia Della Rosa; [2021]
   Keywords : coloniality of knowledge; Sweden; higher education; gender; equal opportunities; feminism;

   Abstract : The work presented aims to analyse the dynamics of power and inequality within the Swedish academic space, and to do so considers the growing diversity of the Swedish academic composition, in the light of increasing internationalisation and a more recent commodification of higher education (HE). Through a critical discourse analysis of official documents published by the five largest Swedish universities, concerning internationalisation-oriented strategies, documents promoting equal opportunities and guidelines governing discrimination, I reflect on the spaces reserved for concepts such as diversity, interculturality and equal opportunities. READ MORE

6. 15. Feminist Commons. : Decoloniality, Intersectionality and the Commons

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten; Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : PANAGIOTA BAMPATZIMOPOULOU; [2020]
   Keywords : feminist commons; the commons; common; commoning; decoloniality; intersectionality; decolonial ethos; decolonial feminist commons;

   Abstract : My thesis is a call for the need of an intersectional awareness in the field of the commons, or the common or commoning. For that reason, I focus on a rather undertheorized subfield, the feminist commons because I deem that it promotes a more intersectional perspective than the male-dominated commons. READ MORE