Essays about: "Lauri Jokinen"

Found 2 essays containing the words Lauri Jokinen.

1. 1. Tracing a Transforming Landscape in South Western Benin : An Environmental History of a Collective Family Domain 1960-2016

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Lauri Jokinen; [2017]
   Keywords : Environmental History; Deforestation; Landscape Transformation; Benin Republic; Dahomey Gap;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis discusses the environmental history of a collective family domain in South Western Benin Republic from 1960 to 2016. Research material was collected through fieldwork in 2014 and 2016 focusing mostly on collective and personal oral histories, and participatory map making. READ MORE

3. 2. Giving and receiving, or denying knowledge? Aspects of knowledge production in development studies seen through a perspective of decoloniality.

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

   Author : Lauri Jokinen; [2014]
   Keywords : Knowledge production; Development studies; Coloniality; Decoloniality; Benin; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This essay is a critique of modern/colonial knowledge production, with particular reference to development studies, based on thinking about decoloniality, and illustrated by experiences from a bachelor's programme in development studies at Lund university and a field study done in South- Western Benin as a part of those studies. The purpose of this essay is more to discuss issues that I have come to see as problems with knowledge production in development studies, through the experience of doing the field study and reading on decoloniality. READ MORE