Essays about: "Decolonisation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the word Decolonisation.

  1. 1. Indigenous Collections at the Museum of World Culture : Digitisation, Decolonisation and Other Stories

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Silvia Sánchez Membrilla; [2024]
    Keywords : decolonial computing; decolonisation; digital cultural heritage; digital humanities; digitisation; postcolonialism; computación decolonial; decolonización; digitación; digitalización; humanidades digitales; patrimonio cultural digital; postcolonialismo;

    Abstract : Introduction. This thesis investigates the digitisation of Indigenous collections at the Museum of World Culture (Gothenburg, Sweden), with particular attention to Carlotta’s role in shaping the digital collections. READ MORE

  3. 2. Shifting Power in the Humanitarian Sector:Why INGOs need to hand over control and how to do it.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Martina Manzari; [2023]
    Keywords : Humanitarian sector; power; localisation; decolonisation; organisational change; equal partnership.;

    Abstract : In the world, power is unequally distributed, and so it is in the humanitariansector. After the inability of the humanitarian community to meet the localisationtargets set in the Grand Bargain, the failure has been attributed, among otherreasons, to international actors’ unwillingness to cede power. READ MORE

  4. 3. Who is the Research for? : Exploring a Funder’s Approach to Development Research Communication

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Kristin Colenbrander; [2023]
    Keywords : Development research; communication; research uptake; decolonisation; critical discourse analysis; research funder; research to policy;

    Abstract : Recent debates about decolonising research suggest that researchers should reframe how they think of research participants in the Global South: not as data points, but as partners who are involved from research design to dissemination. However, the findings of development research are rarely shared with participants or other non-decision-maker audiences in the Global South. READ MORE

  5. 4. Academic Human Rights Education in a Transnational Perspective on the Example of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julia Seipel; [2023]
    Keywords : Transnational Human Rights Education; Decolonising; Post-Colonialism; Localisation of Knowledge; Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I explore positions of power in transnational human rights education, using The Raoul Wallenberg Institute as example in a case study. I am interested to know how human rights knowledge is produced and transferred in a global system of human rights education. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Colonial Legacies of Internship Programs in International Development - A Qualitative Case Study of Local Staff’s Experiences in Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Martina Frappa; [2023]
    Keywords : internship; international development; white saviour; decolonisation; privilege-awareness; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although extensively advertised as a positive practice that enhances students’ intercultural competencies, internship programs have been increasingly criticised for reinforcing simplistic understandings of global development. Often involving students from the Global North engaging in placements with development organisations and institutions in the Global South, these programs perpetuate dynamics of systematic inequality rooted in colonial legacies. READ MORE