Essays about: "Cosmopolitan"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 76 essays containing the word Cosmopolitan.

  1. 16. Membership, Morality and Global Justice : A Study of Feminist Contributions to Cosmopolitan Ethics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Sigurros Svöfudottir; [2019]
    Keywords : Cosmopolitanism; Ethics; Feminist Ethics; Global Justice; Structural Injustice; Human Rights; Right to Membership; State Sovereignty; Displaced Persons;

    Abstract : This paper is a project based on a theoretical approach, where my aim is to search for the core elements of a viable feminist cosmopolitan ethics.  To further that purpose I identify, discuss, and compare some of the main components of such an ethics as proposed by political theorists Seyla Benhabib and Iris Marion Young. READ MORE

  3. 17. Students Without Borders? : an analysis of the role of digital media in the lives of international students at Lund University

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Timothy Parker; [2019]
    Keywords : International Students; Digital Media; Social Media; Mediatization; Cosmopolitanism; Conviviality; Multiculturalism; Transnationalism; Sweden; Mobility.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : International students at Lund University are constantly engaged with their mobile devices. Communication conducted through these devices across a variety of digital and social media platforms facilitates a significant amount of everyday communication, on both a local and transnational level. READ MORE

  4. 18. Democratic global environmental governance: An oxymoron or a matter of ideals? : A study of the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Ema Lindén Glad; Joakim Nersing; [2019]
    Keywords : The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; United Nations; sustainable development; transnational democracy; global environmental governance; typological content analysis; cosmopolitan democracy; deliberative democracy; stakeholder democracy;

    Abstract : Today, one of the most compelling issues facing students of environmental politics is global environmental governance’s democratic legitimacy. Critics of multilateral and transnational sustainable development negotiations and implementations perceive these as democratically deficient, due to non-state actors deciding over nation-state politics. READ MORE

  5. 19. Cosmopolitan Soft Skills : Capturing the Toolkit Fostering Human Flourishing by an Intersecting of Theory and Empirical Data

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Blanka Rósa; [2019]
    Keywords : flourishing; cosmopolitan soft skills; critical realism; positive psychology; capabilities approach; cosmopolitanism;

    Abstract : While globalisation is a multidimensional phenomenon, present educational foci tend to lie not on preparing students for a complex, globalised 21stcentury, but on preparing students for a 21st-century economic globalisation. In order to advocate a change of consciousness, this present study examines the concept of human flourishing and the skills – referred to as cosmopolitan soft skills – fostering the phenomenon. READ MORE

  6. 20. A study of foreign exchange student’s consumption motivations from a food tourism perspective in Shanghai, China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

    Author : Frederic Köllisch; [2019]
    Keywords : food tourism; culinary tourism; consumption; motivation; information search; china; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite the massive growth of the tourism industry worldwide in the past years, there is still a noticeable scarcity in scientific and scholarly literature when it comes to the phenomenon of food tourism, or simply the awareness that food and beverages play a vital role within the tourism industry. Particularly in developing countries but also in cosmopolitan cities such as Shanghai, food tourism has been widely neglected by researchers, companies and culinary establishments as a possibility for growth and improvement of the tourism machine. READ MORE