Essays about: "coloniality of knowledge"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words coloniality of knowledge.

1. 1. The Coloniality of Food Governance in Sweden : An explorative feminist decolonial discourse analysis of the Swedish Food Agency

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Lisa Engström; [2023]
   Keywords : decoloniality; feminist critical discourse analysis; food governance; food safety regulations;

   Abstract : The Swedish Food Agency is responsible for giving guidelines and recommendations for businesses producing, importing, selling, and serving agricultural products in Sweden. The general discourse of these guidelines and recommendations are based on the notion of safeguarding the consumer from potential risks and harms. READ MORE

3. 2. How to fail successfully: the struggles of PAR within academia

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten; Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Dimitra Moustaka; [2023]
   Keywords : Participatory action research PAR ; decolonial research; asylum interview; coloniality of the academy; intersectionality; self-reflectivity;

   Abstract : This research seeks to explore the origins and values of participatory action research, as well as its role in transforming possibilities to knowledge production and shaping equal relationships between research participants. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and decoloniality and with a focus on the experience of the asylum interview, the research seeks to explore the ways that those epistemological paradigms intertwine with participatory research to deconstruct the dichotomy between researcher and research subject (expert/community) and re-balance the power differentials embedded within academia, canonical knowledge production and traditional research methodologies, to initiate change. READ MORE

4. 3. Development Studies from a Decolonial Perspective:Discourse Analysis on the OECD Development Reports

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Ana Lucía Garín Rodríguez; [2023]
   Keywords : Development; Decolonial Thought; Discourse Analysis; Postcolonial and Neo-colonial Theories; OECD; Global South; Wester-centrism.; Pensamiento Decolonial; Subalternidad; Pensamiento Latinoamericano;

   Abstract : The concept of development has been extensively researched, and it isa key topic in political and economic international and domestic agendas.Modernization and globalization theories have been the most prevalentanalytical approaches to development, but from a postcolonial and decolonialperspective, these theories are Western-centric, overgeneralized, andoverused. READ MORE

5. 4. On the Production of the Humanitarian Subject : A Decolonial Exploration of Innocence

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

   Author : Sarah Nefeli Lola Goosens; [2023]
   Keywords : Humanitarianism; Modernity Coloniality; Innocence; Emotions; Autoethnography; Storytelling; Decolonial Research.;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to explore how humanitarian communication produces subjectivities for individuals. More specifically, it investigates how the innocent modern/colonial humanitarian subject is produced through appeals to emotions. To explore this phenomenon, this thesis develops a decolonial research approach grounded in epistemic disobedience. READ MORE

6. 5. Colonial Tendencies of Voluntourism: A Postcolonial Analysis of Weltwärts Testimonials

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Amelie Aue; [2023]
   Keywords : Voluntourism; Weltwärts; Development; Postcolonial Theory; Coloniality of Power; Orientalism; white Saviorism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Voluntourism is often described as a sustainable development strategy facilitating Global Learning and cross-cultural exchange. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the voluntourism program Weltwärts strives to create stronger international partnerships, development engagement, and equitable encounters. READ MORE