Essays about: "community work"

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  1. 1. Examining Conservation Narratives : An Environmental Discourse Analysis of WWF Madagascar

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Félice Rubin; [2024]
    Keywords : Conservation; Discourse; Deforestation; Community management; Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Hegemony; Baselines; Environmental History; Miljövård; diskurs; avskogning; samhällsförvaltning; biodiversitet; ekosystemtjänster; hegemoni; miljöhistoria;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the conservation narratives of Madagascar the ambiguity of forest cover and deforestation estimates, and the difficulty in deconstructing the narratives linked to the idea of a once fully forested island. In particular, shifts in the conservation debate are related to the discursive power of a large-scale international NGO, the WWF. READ MORE

  3. 2. Nils Bruces park på Krubbemölla

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

    Author : Magdalena Mononen Persson; [2024]
    Keywords : trädgård; park; grönt kulturarv; 1800-tal; trädgårdsväxter; allmogeträdgård; Christinehof; Krubbemölla; Krageholm; prästgårdsträdgård; Skåne; Vitaby; Andrarum; Piper; hejderidare; trädgårdsförening; trädgårdsmästare;

    Abstract : Öster om Vitaby samhälle och söder om Vitaby kyrkby på Österlen, i en dalgång där Mölleån rinner fram, ligger en möllegård som heter Krubbemölla. Mellan åren 1858 och 1887 bodde arrendatorn Nils Bruce här. Han tillträdde 1858 när han pensionerades från sitt arbete som hejderidare vid Christinehof. READ MORE

  4. 3. Agonistic Peacebuilding Practices, in Practice? A Study of INGOs Programmatic and Advocacy Work With and For Yazidi Survivors in Northern Iraq

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Charlotta Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : Agonistic peace; Thick recognition; Peacebuilding; Yazidi community; Iraq; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. READ MORE

  5. 4. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  6. 5. Tapestry of rural lives : trust and ties within BYGDSAM association

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

    Author : Zana-Sofia Merdovic; [2024]
    Keywords : weak ties; civil associations; rural development;

    Abstract : Local communities across Europe have been experiencing a decline in population and public services. To counter this trend, civil society often steps up through voluntary associations. READ MORE