Essays about: "collective agency"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 90 essays containing the words collective agency.

  1. 11. “What Else Can We Do?” An examination into sustained anti-authoritarian mobilization in Hong Kong’s Yellow Economic Circle

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Bonnie Tallberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Anti-authoritarianism; Contentious Politics; Democracy; Hong Kong; Mobilization; Yellow Economic Circle; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Civil liberties and freedoms have diminished globally due to the last decades’ deepened authoritarianism. Concurrently, mobilizations countering this development have decreased. READ MORE

  3. 12. Fighting Doomsday : an Ecocritical Discourse Analysis of Coursebooks

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Fanny Vik; [2023]
    Keywords : Ecocriticism; Climate Psychology; Education for Sustainable Development; Upper Secondary School; Coursebook Analysis;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study is to investigate how three coursebooks used in upper secondary school in Sweden portray nature and promote agency to enact the environmental perspective as outlined by Skolverket (2022). The data for this study was obtained through a close reading of the coursebooks, and the criteria for selecting data were that the texts should touch upon subjects related to nature, sustainability and the environment. READ MORE

  4. 13. How can we change what we think that we know? : Decolonial exploration in German schools to create counter memories

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Hanna Reichelt; [2022]
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    Abstract : Education was defined as a human right in the declaration of human rights by the United Nations(UN) in 1948. In Germany, education counts as a public good and the primary responsibility is assigned to the state in the basic law. READ MORE

  5. 14. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Lucrezia Giordano; [2022]
    Keywords : ation; reproduction; female body; collective processes; reproductive health; agency; decolonial feminism; resistance;

    Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE

  6. 15. Non-fungible tokens: tracing shifts in the art market

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Julius Woeste; [2022]
    Keywords : NFT; art market; actor-network theory; Bourdieu; cartography of controversies;

    Abstract : Given the advent and market boom of NFTs, this thesis concerns itself with observing how NFTs are shifting the art market, and how those shifts can be explained, as the two seemingly disparate markets have different actors, processes and characteristics. In order to answer these questions the thesis takes an abductive case study design and employs an actor-network theory (ANT) approach to observe shifts in the markets by both human and non-human actors. READ MORE