Essays about: "Social Development Movements"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 134 essays containing the words Social Development Movements.

1. 16. New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa

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

   Author : Lisa Pier; [2022]
   Keywords : extractivism; development; resistance; re-imagination; decoloniality; alternatives; self-determination; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist resistance. READ MORE

3. 17. Of Those Who Dared to Dream: Student Activists’ Contestation of Hierarchy in the Thai Youth-led Protest

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Lara A. Franken; [2022]
   Keywords : Student Protests; Student Activists; Thai Hierarchy; Monarchy; Junta; Protest Symbols; Thailand; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the perception of hierarchy and how student activists have challenged hierarchy in the youth-led protests through attacking symbols of hierarchy and authority. Hereby, the research is based on in-depth interviews with student activists form Bangkok, linking it to the contemporary and historical development of the Thai social order. READ MORE

4. 18. Just Sustainability Transitions in the Blue Economy: Towards Blue Justice in Small-Scale Artisanal Fisheries in the Pacific of Costa Rica

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2022]
   Keywords : blue economy; small-scale artisanal fisheries; just transitions; blue justice; Costa Rica; fieldwork; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The blue economy emerged as sustainable, inclusive and equitable alternative to traditional oceans economy. However, the current paradigm of oceans as development spaces has led to an acceleration of competing uses of marine resources causing ecosystem deterioration and human rights abuses that disproportionately affect vulnerable small-scale fisheries. READ MORE

5. 19. APES TOGETHER STRONG!!! An Exploratory Case Study Into Newcomer Socialization Within the GameStop Movement

   University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

   Author : Sebastian Luser; Toni Schreier; [2022]
   Keywords : Digital movement; social movement; online community; socialization; GameStop; Wallstreetbets; collective action; connective action; jargon;

   Abstract : Background: “APES TOGETHER STRONG“ was one of the slogans, that participants of the influential GameStop movement (who ironically called themselves “apes“) utilized to show their unity (“together strong“) and relentlessness in their seemingly irrational actions. Erupting in January 2021, retail investors that had formed a community via Reddit, collectively achieved to multiply the stock price of American gaming retail chain GameStop, causing huge losses for hedge funds, resulting in political discussions and social outrage. READ MORE

6. 20. “We are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn”. The Functions of Protest Art in the Argentinian Green Wave Movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Daniele Zubrickaite; [2022]
   Keywords : protest art; social movements; abortion; Argentina; cultural politics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Protest, as a collective struggle to challenge the dominant orthodoxies, involves aesthetics that have the power to articulate the movement’s identity, protestors’ ideas, preferences, and interests. This research is a case study exploring the functions of art in the reproductive rights movement marea verde (en. READ MORE