Essays about: "cultural multiplicity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words cultural multiplicity.
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1. The Atlas of Two Women: A Methodological Exploration for Seeing and Interpreting the Symptomatic Visual Motif
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis explores the under-recognised yet symptomatic visual motif of two women, a recurring theme within a vast array of pictorial examples. Its primary objective is to construct a theoretical and methodological framework capable of comprehending the multiplicity of images in the form of an image collection: The Atlas of Two Women. READ MORE
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2. Predicting Neighborhood Attachment in Germany
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Neighborhood attachment is an important and influential concept in environmental psychology. Yet, there is a lack of quantitative research that allows predictions to be made. Additionally, whereas neighborhood attachment is influenced by various variables, most studies only have assessed a few predictors. READ MORE
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3. The Multiplicity of Colonial Literature: Using the Portrayal of the Indian Population to Promote Democratic Values and Vocabulary Development in Upper Secondary School
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This essay explores the ways colonial short stories by Rudyard Kipling can be used in many different aspects of language teaching in upper secondary school.The analysis takes inspiration from Edward Said’s Orientalism, where he discusses and argues for the prevalence of the phenomenon of Orientalism in the zeitgeist of Western society during the age of European occupation and colonization. READ MORE
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4. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
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5. Moving beyond Coloniality : The decolonial program of the French party Les Indigènes de la République
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This study addresses the decolonial program of the French party Les Indigènes de la République (PIR). By means of contemporary concepts of Coloniality, Decoloniality and decolonial resistance as theoretical framework and a qualitative content analysis as method for this study thirty articles of PIR authors that have been published from 2016 to 2018 are analysed in regard to the party’s particular understanding of racial inequality in French society, its conception of a decolonial society and its’ strategy for systemic change. READ MORE
