Essays about: "John Hero"

Found 2 essays containing the words John Hero.

1. 1. Understanding Resilience and Risks : A Qualitative Case Study of International Disaster Policy and Informal Settlements in Buenos Aires, Argentina

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : John Hero; [2015]
   Keywords : Resilience; Disaster; Risk; UN; Community; Self-organization; Resiliencia; Desastre; Riesgo; ONU; Comunidad; Auto-organización;

   Abstract : This study is the result of a two-year long minor field study project of informal settlements in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The aim was to analyse the concept of disaster resilience by describing possible contemporary complications in both theory and practice related to resilience and risks of informal settlements in Buenos Aires. READ MORE

3. 2. (Re)situating Women in Irish Revolutionary History by (Re)Doing Undone Gender : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sean O'Faolain's Biography "Constance Markievicz".

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : John Woodlock; [2014]
   Keywords : patriarchy; objectivity; participation; allegory; visibility; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The production of knowledge and claims of objectivity in Irish revolutionary historical narratives are discursively gendered processes which maintain a power-differentiation between the sexes through the assignment of a hierarchy of significance to the participation of men and women in the Irish struggles for independence. The partial visibility of women in such historical accounts is discursively maintained by the masculinization of Irish historical knowledge production where nationalist revolutionary discourses have been articulated by men as male-only spaces, preserving a hegemonic male-hero image. READ MORE