Essays about: "Humanity and Dominance"

Found 3 essays containing the words Humanity and Dominance.

  1. 1. Building resilience through food : the case of the Network of Agroecological Peasants' Markets of Valle del Cauca (Red MAC), Colombia

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : Camilo Andres Ardila Galvis; [2016]
    Keywords : Alternative Food Networks; social-ecological resilience; agroecology; food systems; collective action; agro-biocultural diversity; Colombia;

    Abstract : The dominance of conventional (chemical and industrial) agriculture has eroded the ecological, economic and socio-cultural conditions to sustain production for a growing population, undermining humanity´s capacity to feed itself (Gliessman, 2007; Altieri & Toledo, 2011). As a consequence, we have a decoupled global food system: the social is decoupled from the ecological; farmers are decoupled from the land; farmers and consumers are decoupled from each other; and culture is decoupled from agri-culture. READ MORE

  2. 2. The dystopia between a universal "Empire of meaning" and local contexts : a study of humanity, UN dominance and the interaction process of sensemaking

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Kajsa Markström Lindgren; [2015]
    Keywords : culture; gap; human dignity; human rights; ideology; theory; postmodernism; practice; Thompson; vernacularization; thinking and doing ;

    Abstract : There seems to be a gap between human rights theory and human rights practice. This gap disables rights to be applicable in practice in a meaningful manner. READ MORE

  3. 3. Humanity and Dominance in Police Interviews. Causes and Effects

    University essay from Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

    Author : Kent Madsen; [2010]
    Keywords : Police Interview; Humanity and Dominance; memory performance; psychological well-being;

    Abstract : This experimental study examined whether a humanitarian and a dominant interviewing style, respectively, had any causal effect on 146 interviewees’ memory performance, as well as the interviewees’ psychological well-being. Independent-samples t-tests showed that participants interviewed in a humanitarian style reported a larger amount of information altogether, including, as defined, more peripheral and central information, compared to those interviewed in a dominant style. READ MORE