Essays about: "ecologically unequal exchange."
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6. Selling the Green Dream to Women: Socio-environmental Degradation and the Paradox of Feminism and Sustainability in Fashion Marketing.
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This thesis identifies a trend of fashion brands engaging in feminist and environmental issues through their business strategy in order to sell products to women. More specifically, it explores the relationship between gender and environmentalism in marketing campaigns within the fashion industry. READ MORE
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7. Socioecological Transformation and the History of Indian Cotton, Gujarat, Western India
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Landscape management is often referred to as a holistic concept, which deals with large-scale processes and multidisciplinary manners in regards to natural resource use with ecological and livelihood considerations. Seen in this light, landscape transformation should be understood within the context of the human-nature relationship, viewing human activities and their institutions as an essential part of the system rather than as external agents. READ MORE
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8. The Violence We Consume - Embodied Violence in Nicaraguan Coffee Production
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Based on ethnographic fieldwork with corteros in northern Nicaragua, this grounded theory study introduces two new concepts, the main concept embodied violence and related to it violence displacement. These concepts link the worker on the coffee plantation in the periphery with the final consumer in the core, arguing that the latter consumes embodied violence that the former had to suffer during the production process. READ MORE
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9. Canadian mega-mining in Central Mexico: Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Violence and Organized resistance 1992-2016
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This thesis examines the historical dynamics of ecologically unequal exchange, coloniality of power, and systemic violence embedded in mining activities. With the use of a combined Marxist and De-colonial critical approach, it accomplishes a political ecology analysis of Canadian mega-mining in central Mexico and the socioenvironmental conflicts related to it, particularly in Cerro de San Pedro and the sacred territory of Wirikuta, between 1992-2016. READ MORE
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10. The survival of an island: A study on landownership and depopulation on the islands Mykines and Skúgvoy
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Urbanisation is an ongoing trend all over the world, and these same trends occur in the Faroe Islands as well. Some of the small peripheral islands are now believed to be on the verge of becoming unpopulated. This study investigates the role of landownership in depopulation on the outer islands in the Faroe Islands. READ MORE
