Essays about: "Global Capitalism"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 59 essays containing the words Global Capitalism.
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11. Be beautiful and speak up : Africana beauty at the forefront of an inclusive Internet beauty culture.
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för temaAbstract : 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
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12. Global Income Inequality and the World Bank - The Depoliticization of Inequality
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This dissertation tackles contemporary optimism regarding global income inequality trends from a critical perspective. It looks at the World Bank's influential report on global inequality from 2016, and investigates whether the World Bank's objective notion of themselves is plausible. READ MORE
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13. From "the Will to Improve" to "the Will to Transform": Some Promises & Challenges of Sida's Multidimensional Poverty Analysis (MDPA) Framework in Bolivia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Objectives: This study sets out to answer the following research questions: 1. How do Sida and CEDLA problematize poverty and what does this reveal about their underlying development paradigms? 2. READ MORE
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14. Facebook and the Circulation of Capital: The Rentier Supply Chain of Social Media Marketing
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : Digital space is a novel form of spatial expression which have been core to the business model of some of the largest firms within the 21st century. Mobilizing tools from geographical political economy, Facebook and the core function of its digital space is critically analyzed, along with how value is distributed along the advertising supply chain. READ MORE
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15. The Limerick Soviet : Workers' motivations for the general strike in Limerick, 1919
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : In April 1919, the Trades and Labour Council of Limerick County, Ireland, declared a general strike in response to the increasingly militarised policing of the region by the British authorities. A Strike Committee, consisting of local activists, assumed governance of Limerick for two weeks. READ MORE