Essays about: "The Commons"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 126 essays containing the words The Commons.

  1. 16. Creation of a Common : Political Subjectivities of Staffing Agency Mediated Transnational Thai Workers

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Therese Christoffersson; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis investigates to what extent staffing agency mediation and employment produces a political subjectivity of transnational Thai workers in Thailand. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a general discussion on how the disaggregation of borders and staffing agencies as border agents affects political subjectivities of transnational workers. READ MORE

  3. 17. Theorizing & (re)discovering the Self : An autoethnographic & affect-theoretical approach to swedishness & colombianness

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Daniela Rodriguez Alvarez; [2022]
    Keywords : affect theory; the self; identity; temporality; colombianness; swedishness; migrant; creative writing; writing from the flesh; WOC feminism; haunting; representation; shame; depression; autoethnography; brown commons; disidentification; translanguaging; writing and theorizing as healing;

    Abstract : This thesis is structured as a feminist creative endeavour, a practice of self-love that aims at exploring (my) depression as a cultural and social phenomenon caused mainly by an inability to correctly embody swedishness, a constant haunting of a colonial and Colombian past, and the affective dimensions of language. This text is based on autoethnographic material about the experiences of being a Colombian-born migrant in Sweden and uses mainly affect theory and decolonial theory to make sense of these experiences. READ MORE

  4. 18. Mer än ett minne från svunna tider : en analys av häradsallmänningarnas institutionella utveckling

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Anna Ek; [2022]
    Keywords : häradsallmänning; allmänning; institution; kritisk institutionell teori;

    Abstract : Häradsallmänningar är en av många svenska typer av allmänningar men är fortfarande i stort sett outforskade. Denna studie undersöker utvecklingen av häradsallmänningar, och studerar vilka olika roller de innehaft, betydelser de tillmäts och vilka anspråk som gjorts på häradsallmänningarnas resurser under deras 1000-åriga historia. READ MORE

  5. 19. Gröna bibliotek som en mångfunktionell urban allmänning : en exempelstudie av biblioteket Garaget och projektet Gröna biblioteket i Malmö

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Elias Haglund; [2022]
    Keywords : bibliotek; allmänningar; urbana allmänningar; urbana gröna allmänningar; kulturella allmänningar; kunskapsallmänningar; subtraktion;

    Abstract : Social hållbarhet innefattar bland annat att människor har en god välfärd och god tillgång till lärande. God välfärd är till exempel viktigt för människors hälsa och lärande är viktigt för att utveckla förmågor att lösa samhällsproblem. READ MORE

  6. 20. Human Rights and the Commodification of Pollution – A Genealogical Study of the Carbon Market with an Intergenerational Justice Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Ida Helene Sørensen-Diercksen; [2022]
    Keywords : Carbon market; human rights; climate change; intergenerational justice; genealogy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The carbon market promises cost-effective climate change mitigation and economic growth. However, it has been criticised as greenwashing and delaying necessary decarbonisation. This thesis examines the genealogy of the carbon market to address the human rights consequences for future generations. READ MORE