Essays about: "Global Capitalism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 59 essays containing the words Global Capitalism.

  1. 6. From Grassroot to Global: Community-Based Entrepreneurs Shaping Systemic Change

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Merel Evers; Merel Jasmijn Hulst; [2023]
    Keywords : Depletion of natural resources; re-organizing the economy; bottom-up efforts; community-based entrepreneurship; common-based economy; eco-villages; community boundary management; collective action; social and environmental change; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This research explores how community-based entrepreneurs can contribute to the reorganization of natural resource management and find solutions to environmental problems within the current capitalist economy. Recent scholars on post-capitalism, believe that the economy can be organized by different institutions than the market and investigate the role of individuals as catalyst of environmental and social change from the bottom up. READ MORE

  3. 7. A CHANGING SCENE: COVID-19 pandemic impacts on lives of travel economy stakeholders in Goa

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Petra Nilsson; [2022-08-24]
    Keywords : Anthropology; Covid-19; Goa; crisis management; travel economies; hippie culture; Antropologi; krishantering; rese-ekonomier; hippiekultur;

    Abstract : This dissertation is based on two months of ethnographic fieldwork in North Goa, India. It concerns impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel economy stakeholders, in relation to their perception of their living situations, both present and future. READ MORE

  4. 8. Opposing ‘green’ extractivism: Voices of resistance in the case of the Gállok iron mine, Sápmi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Elena Maria Gnant; [2022]
    Keywords : political ecology; ’green’ extractivism; energy transition; frontier racism; colonial capitalism; Sámi resistance; just transition; Sápmi; Gállok; Kallak; Jåhkåmåhkke; Jokkmokk; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Embedded in a history of global colonial capitalism and the system’s crisis ridden tendencies and fixes for capital accumulation, extractivism increases globally. The intensive exploitation of resources is increasingly framed as compatible with and necessary to climate change mitigation for the possibility of a low-carbon future, opening new extractive frontiers through a path of ‘green’ extractivism (GE). READ MORE

  5. 9. Colonial continuities and their influence on knowledge production on the migration and climate change nexus : A policy analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

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

    Author : Agnes Ziegler; [2022]
    Keywords : Global Compact for Safe; Orderly and Regular Migration; climate change and migration; knowledge; modernity coloniality; racial capitalism; policy-making; intergovernmental institutions;

    Abstract : Climate change is one of the greatest challenges currectly facing humanity. Its impacts lead to the displacement of people through sea level rise, desertification, drought, flood and other ecological disaster. The global imbalance of power results in people being unequally affected by climate change. READ MORE

  6. 10. What are the Underlying Factors for the Poor Implementation of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Principle in Australia, Canada, and the United States? : A Qualitative Comparative Study

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

    Author : Isra Bashir Ahmed; [2022]
    Keywords : Settler-Colonialism; FPIC Extractive Industry; Stakeholder approach; Power Asymmetries; Logic of Elimination; Doctrine of Discovery; Terra Nullius; Global Capitalism; Dakota Access Pipeline; Canadian Land Claims; Native Title Act; John v M’intosh; FPIC CSR.;

    Abstract : It has been 15 years since the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized the Free, Prior and Informed consent Principle, yet it has not been able to function to its fullest potential. This Thesis aims to carry out a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the following three countries of Australia, Canada, and the United States. READ MORE