Essays about: "india in space"

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  1. 21. Engendering Food Sovereignty: Feminist Post-Development and Gendered Discourses in the Food Sovereignty Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Emilia Sternberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Feminist Post-Development; Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis; Gender; Food Sovereignty; Food Sovereignty Movement; Tamil Nadu; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The food sovereignty movement (FSM) calls for transformative change towards equality in power over food systems and social relations, including gender relations. The purpose of this feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) was to gain insights into the gendered discourses of the FSM at the international level and discursive repertoires on gender and food sovereignty at the grassroots level in Tamil Nadu, India, through feminist post-development (FPD) thought on gender and transformative change. READ MORE

  3. 22. Subjects of the Sovereignty Impulse

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Benjamin Tidå; [2015]
    Keywords : Sovereignty impulse; State-thinking; State of Exception; Bare Life; Political Action; Space of Appearance; Abduction; Field Research; Refugee Camp; Tamil; India; Sri Lanka; Citizen; Refugee; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the state of refugeehood in the political order of the nation-state system through a case study study of the Tamil refugee population in Tamil Nadu, India. How, and in what ways, does refugeehood affect peoples’ lives as political subjects? And what is the role of the refugee figure in the political order of the nation-state system? The research questions are explored through a theoretical framework based on the concepts of: Citizenship (or the lack thereof); the Sovereignty impulse; State-thinking; the State/Space of Exception, Bare Life; Political Action; the Space of Appearance. READ MORE

  4. 23. Agricultural transformations, the developing giants China and India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Micaela Francke Rydén; [2014]
    Keywords : developing patterns; globalisation; advantage of backwardness; Lewis-model; developing giants; agriculture; industrial revolution; economic growth; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Development and how to reach economic growth have been discussed and talked about since the Industrial revolution in Europe pushed productivity and wages up but the models have changed over time and space. The most successful ones seems to build on traditional patterns of agriculture and growing domestic markets, but with a growing global market and new players on the world market can it be that the traditional patterns of development is changing and if so, how? This thesis aim at finding if and how developing patterns differs over time and space by looking at historical evidence as well as the new players on the world market, the developing giants China and India. READ MORE

  5. 24. Nayapalli Pallavi : An Urban Village Development Project in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Edith Humble; [2014]
    Keywords : Women; India; Odisha; Bhubaneswar; Community Centre; Launderette; Alcoholism; Social Sustainable; Urban development; Public Space; village; square; Kvinnor; Indien; Odisha; Bhubaneswar; Community center; tvätteri; alkoholism; socialt hållbar; stadsutveckling; offentliga rummet; torg; by;

    Abstract : With a grant from Sida I went to Odisha, to learn about women’s local conditions and try to find out how a building could somehow ameliorate it. Through Architects Sans Frontières I got in touch with Urban and Development Resource Centre, working with upgrading slum areas. READ MORE

  6. 25. Captain of Leadership -How to cross international waters. A qualitative study of cross-cultural leadership.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Jenny Ringdal; [2014]
    Keywords : tematisk analys; svenskt ledarskap; kultur; cross-cultural leadership; thematic analysis; culture; Swedish leadership; tvär-kulturellt ledarskap; Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Det teoretiska ramverket för studie var GLOBE-studien, Hofstedes fyra dimensioner och Sveningssons och Alvessons förhållningssätt till ledarskap. Syftet var att undersöka den personliga upplevelsen hos Svenska ledare. Fokus var på hur kulturella faktorer påverkade ledarskapet när ledarna arbetade med ett utländskt team. READ MORE