Essays about: "Tribe"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 30 essays containing the word Tribe.

  1. 16. The Risks of Climate Change Adaptation: How policies of adaptation, lower the adaptive capacity of indigenous communities

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Frederik Carl Felding; [2013]
    Keywords : India; UNFCCC; Climate Change Adaptation; Floods; Indigenous Communities; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis evolve out of a two months field study in Northeast India, addressing the vulnerability of the Mishing tribe whom are living, surrounded by the Brahmaputra River on Majuli Island. Indigenous communities such as the Mishings are often portrayed as the first victims of global climate change. READ MORE

  3. 17. Conflicts over place between indigenous communities and modern capitalism. The case of the Niyamgiri hills, Orissa.

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

    Author : Tove Stenius; [2012]
    Keywords : place; space; economic development; indigenous; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This literature case study focus on a contemporary conflict between the mining company Vedanta Resources and the indigenous tribe of the Dongria Kondh within the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, India. The analysis is grounded in phenomenology, as humanistic geographical concepts of space and place are used in order to interpret the different meanings of space and place as they are expressed within the literature by the two conflicting parties. READ MORE

  4. 18. Access and benefit sharing: a valid instrument for compensation?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Lizzie Sagrelius; [2012]
    Keywords : judicial literacy; traditional knowledge; institutions; inequality; misallocations; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Patents on traditional knowledge and the issue of biopiracy has been a debated issue since the Uruguay Round in the early 1990s. In order to handle this problem, the United Nations established the Convention on Biological Diversity and a subsidiary working group on Access and Benefit Sharing. READ MORE

  5. 19. Rural and urban attitudes towards wildlife : a comparison within Kenya and with Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Maria Barlow; [2012]
    Keywords : attitudes; wildlife; wild animals; urban; rural; kenya; africa; conflict; wold; sweden;

    Abstract : Conflicts between man and animal have existed and persisted for a very long time. The most common sources of conflict are predation and destruction of crops, as well as land, caused by wild animals. Studies have shown that the most usual causes influencing attitudes are profession, previous experiences, proximity to wildlife (i.e. READ MORE

  6. 20. Kenyan conflict, post-colonial media? A discourse analysis of how western media portrayed the violent aftermath of the Kenyan election in 2007 through a post-colonial perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Daniel Eklund; [2010]
    Keywords : Discrimination; Critical discourse analysis; Post-colonialism; Ethnic violence; Kenya; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Kenya had a disputed presidential election in late 2007 which erupted into ethnic clashes between supporters of the two candidates. Western media was quick to report back that the sudden violence was due to tribal differences. The goal of my essay was such to explore whether or not a post-colonial discourse could be found in western media. READ MORE