Essays about: "Decolonial Feminism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Decolonial Feminism.

1. 1. “Until I see that I have water, I am never free”: Gendered experiences of water scarcity : A case study from Gburimani, Northern Ghana

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

   Author : Madeleine Nordström; Isabel Widman; [2022]
   Keywords : Water scarcity; Gender; Feminist Political Ecology; Intersectionality; Decolonial feminism; Ghana;

   Abstract : Access to water is essential for every aspect of human life. Lack of water is a huge burden for people in low- and middle-income countries, directly linked to poverty, and considered a severe violation of human rights. READ MORE

3. 2. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

   Author : Lucrezia Giordano; [2022]
   Keywords : ation; reproduction; female body; collective processes; reproductive health; agency; decolonial feminism; resistance;

   Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE

4. 3. Building Bridges Through Visual Manifestations of Statelessness : Decolonial feminism and coalitional engagement against denial of genocide in the Dominican Republic

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

   Author : Melike İşleyen; [2022]
   Keywords : Statelessness; Decolonial Feminism; Dominican Republic; Coalitional Engagement; Documentary; Stateless and Our Lives in Transit;

   Abstract : The work presented aims to show the complexity, causes, and challenges of being stateless in the Dominican Republic through the medium of documentaries. This thesis will also uncoverpossibilities of resistance and coalitional engagement. READ MORE

5. 4. Theorizing & (re)discovering the Self : An autoethnographic & affect-theoretical approach to swedishness & colombianness

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Daniela Rodriguez Alvarez; [2022]
   Keywords : affect theory; the self; identity; temporality; colombianness; swedishness; migrant; creative writing; writing from the flesh; WOC feminism; haunting; representation; shame; depression; autoethnography; brown commons; disidentification; translanguaging; writing and theorizing as healing;

   Abstract : This thesis is structured as a feminist creative endeavour, a practice of self-love that aims at exploring (my) depression as a cultural and social phenomenon caused mainly by an inability to correctly embody swedishness, a constant haunting of a colonial and Colombian past, and the affective dimensions of language. This text is based on autoethnographic material about the experiences of being a Colombian-born migrant in Sweden and uses mainly affect theory and decolonial theory to make sense of these experiences. READ MORE

6. 5. Why might the published data on sexual assault against children not be reflecting the reality of lived experiences? : On the example of a community in Western Kenya.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Centrum för genusforskning (from 2013)

   Author : Marta Murawska; [2022]
   Keywords : Western Kenya; decolonial feminism; gender-based violence; sexual education; child abuse.;

   Abstract : In my essay, I have considered whether the data in publications on sexual violence against children reflectreality. I suspect that there are cases of child sexual abuse that goes underreported, and I try to investigate why this happens and the key possible reasons that lower the statistics. READ MORE