Essays about: "Postdevelopment"

Found 5 essays containing the word Postdevelopment.

  1. 1. Postdevelopment Assistance Made Possible? A Qualitative Analysis of the ICLD’s International Training Programmes in Tanzania from the Local Stakeholders’ Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Michal Piatkowski; [2023]
    Keywords : development assistance; power relations; international training programmes; postdevelopment; Tanzania; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Development is a contentious concept, praised by some for enabling progress and criticised by others for perpetuating global power imbalances. Development assistance tends to strengthen the donor-recipient dependency, which, according to critics, primarily serves the interests of the Global North while neglecting the needs of the Global South. READ MORE

  3. 2. Impeding What It Aims to Improve? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Swedish National Strategy for Regional Development

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Viktor Lovén; [2022]
    Keywords : Regional development; Sustainable development; Socio-ecological crisis; Postdevelopment; Sustainability; Discourse analysis;

    Abstract : In a world of systemic environmental destruction and growing social inequality, it is important to explore how decision-making institutions communicate about development and how they attempt to achieve social and environmental sustainability. The institutions define the problems, suggest the strategies, make the policies and set the targets in order to address the present socio-ecological crisis. READ MORE

  4. 3. DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES AND COVID – 19 IN ANDEAN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF BOLIVIA

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Camilo Alfredo Arratia Toledo; [2021-10-14]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Bolivia has been attracting international attention since 2006 due to its new economic model based on wellbeing (Suma Qamaña). These is apparent in national and regional developmental plans that place special importance on Mother Earth and apparently align with ancestral practices. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sustaining Svanholm: The Possibilities and Challenges in a Danish Ecovillage

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Anders Gøhler Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Svanholm; Ecovillage; Sustainability; Anthropological fieldwork; Denmark; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper focuses on the Danish ecovillage by the name of Svanholm, with a special attention to how different areas of sustainability is being understood and carried out in practice in the ecovillage. Through a long-term fieldwork and anthropological methods herein, the paper seeks to understand Svanholm with all its possibilities as well as challenges, whether it be in a technical, environmental, economic, political or social area of sustainability. READ MORE

  6. 5. Hope against hope_An exploratory study of perceptions of current and future global progress among communication for development experts

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

    Author : Alexandra Correia Reis; [2019]
    Keywords : perceptions; communication for development; optimism; pessimism; progress; post-development;

    Abstract : Multi-country surveys indicate widespread pessimism about global progress and about the effectiveness of the international development sector, despite indicators showing significant advancement in most areas. These perceptions are especially noteworthy because they can influence the public’s opinion on other social issues such as multilateralism, migration, or poverty. READ MORE