Essays about: "Land Reform"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 77 essays containing the words Land Reform.

1. 16. Your land is my land : A case study on South Africa’s land expropriation policy under transition

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Adam Karlsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Expropriation; Inclusive institutions; Land reform; South Africa;

   Abstract : The poverty issues in South Africa is reaching unbearable levels. The land reform policy in place from 1994, which offered fair compensation for the land to be redistributed, had shown little results in dealing with the issue of poverty. READ MORE

3. 17. National identity in Sonia Nimr’s children’s book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Tarek Darwich; [2020]
   Keywords : Anderson; National identity; nationalism; Children’s Literature; Palestinian; imagined communities; Sonia Nimr; Wondrous Journey in strange lands; Arab; history; fiction.;

   Abstract : In this thesis, depending on Benedict Anderson’s Studies of nationalism in his book The Imagined Communities, I will prove that in her historical fiction for children, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, the Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr is reviving and reforming Arab national identity. Anderson identifies the nation as a group imagined by its members; the people who perceive and identify themselves as equal members in this group. READ MORE

4. 18. A comparative critical discourse analysis of the news coverage of the rape law reform in Sweden and Denmark

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Ida Helene Sørensen-Diercksen; [2020]
   Keywords : Rape; consent; gender equality; news media; critical discourse analysis; framing Voldtægt; samtykke; ligestilling; nyhedsmedier; kritisk diskursanalyse; framing; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the discourse concerning the consent-based rape law reform in Sweden and Denmark. Sweden implemented the consent-based rape law July 2018 and has since been evaluating the law while the current Danish government promised that the law will change to a consent-based law. READ MORE

5. 19. Can Land Policy Be Gender-Neutral? Evaluating the Impact of Mexico's 1992 Land Titling Reform on Female Empowerment

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Valentina Farinelli; [2020]
   Keywords : Land titling; Gender; Land rights; Bargaining power; Ejido;

   Abstract : Many recent land titling reforms have failed to include a gender perspective. In a context of deep-rooted gender disparities, this omission can give rise to gendered effects on land rights. READ MORE

6. 20. Visions of justice and unequal realities: A study of the prioritization of land claimants in the South African Land Restitution Program

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Rebecca Sunnerås Jonsson; [2020]
   Keywords : South Africa; Land Reform; Land Restitution; Human Rights; Instrumental Development; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The issue of land ownership highlights racial and economic inequalities as the country fights to overcome the enduring legacy of apartheid. The Land Restitution Program seeks to redress victims of land dispossession, addressing both national development and individual justice. READ MORE