Essays about: "Politics of reproduction"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words Politics of reproduction.
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1. "Three meals a day and a place to stay" : Non-waged labor, household formation and the politics of scale on organic farms in the southeastern United States
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Family farms practicing organic agriculture often struggle to make a profit. Unable to pay wages, farms are increasingly recruiting laborers who agree to work without pay, instead receiving food and accommodation. READ MORE
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2. "The Open Veins Remain Open": GM Soy Cultivation, Socio-Environmental Struggle and the Political Economy of Contemporary Peronist Development in Argentina
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Argentina is a pioneer in practicing export-oriented extractivism as a model of socio-economic development. A prevalent extractive project is genetically modified (GM) soy, which was adopted under neoliberal governance in the 1990s and has had a variety of socio-environmental consequences in the country. READ MORE
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3. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle
University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE
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4. disorder, defiance & disobedience : negotiating the city through the confrontations of graffiti—tools for reimagining our rights within the built environment
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : Architects imagine and reimagine utopia. It is a role with the task to produce cities that are liveable, beautiful, functional, flexible and inclusive. Spaces made for and together with people, and places that meet their needs and dreams. READ MORE
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5. A pandemic revealing another : Colombian indigenous women in the national COVID-19 discourse
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : During the last years, Colombia has put an effort in formally achieving higher levels of equality in the country which is particularly visible through the National Development Plan (2018-2022). The spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, magnified those inequalities that the Plan is supposed to challenge by showing not only their ubiquity but the mechanisms through which they can be exacerbated in crises situations. READ MORE
