Essays about: "Racial injustices"

Found 3 essays containing the words Racial injustices.

1. 1. The Powers of Poetry: Creative writing from the Niger Delta as a tool for environmental justice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Kerime van Opijnen; [2021]
   Keywords : Human Ecology; Environmental Justice; Poetry; Writer Activism; Niger Delta; Shell; Decoloniality; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Inspired by centuries of activists who used creative writing as a tool to encourage reflections and inspire change, this thesis looks at the possibility of poetry to be used as an environmental justice tool. In particular the ability of poetry from Nigeria to engage Dutch people with problems around Shell’s exploitation of the Niger Delta and its people, is investigated. READ MORE

3. 2. Racism is Not Getting Worse, it's Getting Tweeted. : A study of the impact of non-verbal cues in hashtag activism. Which emojis correlates with #blacklivesmatter and #alllivesmatter?

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Elin Erlandsson; Nora Kristoffersson; [2021]
   Keywords : #blacklivesmatter; #alllivesmatter; BLM; ALM; Emojis; Twitter; Hashtag Activism; CMC; Racial injustices; Senti Strength; Digital Communication; Semiotics; #blacklivesmatter; #alllivesmatter; BLM; ALM; Emojis; Twitter; Hashtag Aktivism; CMC; Rasism; Senti Strength; Digital Kommunikation; Semiotik;

   Abstract : Scholars are often studying emojis as pure visual elements or as essential textual parts. Theories in this study bridge these subfields and examine emojis in both fields. This bridging understanding of emojis is applied to hashtag activism in the discursive Black Lives Matter debate to increase the comprehension of the impact of emojis. READ MORE

4. 3. What is the Wonder? An ethnography of 'rewilding' at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Elizabeth Cornelia Aardenburg; [2017]
   Keywords : land reform; conservation; indigenous people; traditional authority; cultural theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : ‘Rewilding’, or the return of degraded lands to a state of ‘wilderness’, is a bold attempt to resolve the world’s ecological challenges. It however does not address the division between nature and society, which lies at the core of the issues. READ MORE