Essays about: "Decoloniality"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 44 essays containing the word Decoloniality.

1. 21. Be beautiful and speak up : Africana beauty at the forefront of an inclusive Internet beauty culture.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : KENZA ALOUI; [2022]
   Keywords : Acceptance; African; Africana; autoethnography; beauty; beauty industry; change; community; culture; decoloniality; diaspora; empowerment; existentialism; exoticization; feminist studies; heritage; inclusivity; Internet; intersectionality; interviews; norms; performativity; phenomenology; policing; race; racism; radical; self-love; utopia; women of color.;

   Abstract : The beauty industry has been booming in the last few years, generating immense profits as it now translates into an Internet global beauty culture in its own right that finally made room for women of color. As research barely mentions African women and their diasporas, this study aims to critically analyze the dynamic of this North American-dominated Internet beauty culture celebrating non-white women, looking at how it impacts African women and their diasporas and participates in affirming a global woman of color through commodity capitalism. READ MORE

3. 22. Design And Race: "African Design" In The Shadow Of Modernity

   University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

   Author : Kibandu Pello-Esso; [2021]
   Keywords : race; spatial design; diaspora; decoloniality; planetarian habitability; modernity; reparation;

   Abstract : To explore the question of how race and design are related, I have developed a set of analysis strategies, involving props that are investigating objecthood and subjectivity. I use prototyping techniques and sketching in full scale. READ MORE

4. 23. Community voices against neo-extractivist projects. An analysis of the discourses surrounding fracking in La Huasteca Potosina, Mexico

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Paulina Solis Patino; [2021]
   Keywords : Neo-extractivism; fracking; ecological distribution conflicts; social resistance; discourses; indigenous territories; decoloniality; Mexico; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In 2013, the previous Mexican federal government passed a constitutional reform of the energy sector that set the grounds for the use of fracking at a national scale. Less than two years later, a strategic policy document was published, mapping a whole set of areas whose deposits require the use of fracking to be exploited. READ MORE

5. 24. 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

6. 25. Femicides in Turkey : Understanding Femicides through the Social, Political, and Gendered Context

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Gül Akbal; [2021]
   Keywords : femicides; gender-based violence; discourse theory; critical discourse analysis; intersectionality; Turkey; decoloniality; resistance strategies;

   Abstract : Turkey and its authoritarian policies are in the headlines: the topic of Syrian refugees and the EU – Turkey deal, gross human rights violations, repression against opposition parties, and last but not least the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention in March 2021. Heavy protests of feminist activist groups are demanding the end of gender-based violence and femicide. READ MORE