Essays about: "individual survival strategies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words individual survival strategies.
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1. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle
University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE
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2. “If we don’t, then who will?” : A qualitative study about Black Afro-Swedish women’s embodied identity experiences in working life
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Sweden has been celebrated in public discourse for being a major proponent of social justice and anti-racist policies, but the country’s ambiguous history with racism has been replaced by colour-evasive discourses permeating contemporary organisations today. Management and organisation studies have focused on the individual identity work of employees, without further attention to the intersecting social positionings of Black Afro-Swedish women. READ MORE
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3. "All eCommerce actors will be slaves under Amazon..." : - A study on how Amazon has affected Swedish eCommerce and their defensive marketing strategies.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Increased competition by new market entries has long been studied with defensive marketing strategies (DMS) being identified as one of the ways of combating a new competitor. There is limited research concerning the Swedish eCommerce business landscape and its competitive environment and adding the fact that Amazon, in late 2020, launched in Sweden this study aims to outline what DMS Swedish eCommerce businesses have implemented as a result of Amazon’s entry. READ MORE
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4. Impact of experimental soil moisture manipulation on tropical tree seedling demographic fates and functional traits
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ekologi och genetikAbstract : In tropical regions, climate change is predicted to lead to increased drought frequency and intensity. The extent to which this will shift the functional diversity of tropical tree communities is unknown due to a limited understanding about the response of seedlings to variable soil moisture. READ MORE
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5. "The Right To Clean Water Should Surely Apply To Everyone" : A qualitative study on perspectives of individual well owners and authorities in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsaAbstract : ABSTRACT Background Water is an essential requirement for the survival and development of people. It is estimated that 435 million people get their drinking water from unprotected wells worldwide. Water scarcity and chemical or biological aspects in water have been revealed, which can negatively affect health. READ MORE
