Essays about: "Indigeneity"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the word Indigeneity.
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11. Men, Machos and Masculinity – A Qualitative Study on how Bolivian Women’s Organizations Approach Gender and Masculinities
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : This paper examines understandings of gender with an emphasis on masculinities among Bolivian feminist and women´s organizations. The specific aim has been to find out to what extent their understandings of gender include masculinities, and if so, what are their agendas and political positionings in relation to their work with men and boys. READ MORE
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12. Bracing for the inevitable: An exploratory multi-case study of local climate change adaptation plans
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Vulnerability to climate change and the capacity to adapt to it are the result of intersecting power structures, system dynamics, and social identity markers otherwise known as intersectionality; and thus, differ greatly between contexts. However, despite the stark contextual differences between small and metropolitan cities, and lower and higher income countries, the policy and study of climate change adaptive planning has often focused on capital cities and technocratic solutions as a default blueprint for adaptation processes. READ MORE
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13. The Limitations and Potential of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: An Analysis through the Lenses of Indigeneity and Gender
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), theforemost legal instrument that defines and protects Indigenous rights, is groundbreaking because it centers the voices of Indigenous peoples and pushes back on the colonial undertones of the United Nations human rights framework. While this declaration represents a landmark in the fight for Indigenous rights, it is nonetheless rooted in a statist international system and perpetuates patriarchal and heteronormative traditions. READ MORE
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14. Indigeneity as a base for rural development : a case study of the indigenous community Ramada, eastern Bolivia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. READ MORE
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15. The Voices of the Unheard : A postcolonial analysis of how indigeneity is discursively (re)produced by international donors
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In the last 20 years, international donors have made efforts to increase the participation of minorities into development programmes. Despite these efforts, development actors continues to receive critique from postcolonial theorists for continuing to reinforce neocolonial and Western-centered tendencies onto minorities. READ MORE
