Essays about: "decolonial feminism"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 16 essays containing the words decolonial feminism.
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11. Banking the unbanked: Financial inclusion and economic sustainable development for women? : Decolonial perspectives on the gendered migration-remittances-development nexus
University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : Over the last decade, a new trend of Global Remittances has emerged within the international development community, especially a growing interest in women’s migration and remittances, and their potential for poverty reduction and economic growth. Due to the staggering amount of transnational money transfers, migrant remittances have become a central component in multilateral discussions on alternative development financing, and has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). READ MORE
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12. Teaching Meets Gender : An Exploration and Comparison of India and Sweden’s Efforts into Teaching their Teachers about Gender Equality
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : When it comes to gender equality and education, teachers become the influential element of change as their proximity and classroom interactions with students can facilitate more gender sensitive teaching. This thesis aims to investigate the efforts made by India and Sweden to teach their teachers about gender and intersectional practices and sensitivity training and then analyse what one system can borrow from the other, while investigating the role of geo-politics in all of these. READ MORE
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13. Speaking from the interstices: Latin American Decolonial Feminists Theorizing the State
University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Latin American decolonial feminists are concerned with deconstructing the colonial legacies that persist and multiply today albeit formal colonialism has ended. This thesis engages with Latin American decolonial feminism’s political project of decolonization in relation to the state, to see whether it follows the state-phobia tendency popular in other emancipatory political discourses. READ MORE
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14. Imagining Somewheres: Obstruction as a Productive Force in Decolonial Visuality, Solidarities, and Asian American Futures
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize and unintentionally other the depicted subjects. READ MORE
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15. Fragments of a Transition to Nothing : Feminist Perspectives on Post-Socialism in Serbia
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : This thesis represents an attempt to challenge power hierarchies infusing white Western European academic and political fields. It constitutes a project, built on decolonial critique of privileges of research, that aims at attending to local and marginalised feminist perspectives in order to reach a deeper understanding for a complex and ambivalent Serbian post-socialist reality. READ MORE
