Essays about: "positionality"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 essays containing the word positionality.

  1. 21. Gringos and Caimitos : a political ecology of coloniality in a marginalized farming community

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Jessie Diggle; [2020]
    Keywords : Decoloniality; self-reflexivity; autoethnography; socio-ecological space; Esmeraldas; afro-descendance; white supremacy; land appropriation; coloniality; permaculture; nature regimes; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study examines articulations between place, power, and difference between social groups in a farming community of afro-descendance and foreigners appropriating land in Ecuador. It is an iterative-inductive ethnography that combines the extended case study with autoethnography to move between layers of systemic structures, intersubjectivity and subjectivity. READ MORE

  3. 22. Refusing to Play the Game - An exploration of transnational decolonial feminist resistance to neoliberal corporate power

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Rachel Doherty; [2020]
    Keywords : Decolonial Feminism; Neoliberalism; Liberal Feminism; Gender and Development; Transnational Feminist Theory; Ideologies.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the decolonial feminist approach of the transnational feminist collective, Feminists for a Binding Treaty (FBT), as they advocate for the inclusion of a gender perspective in a Binding Treaty to curb corporate power. Drawing on Freeden’s ideology theory and Transnational Feminist Theory, this thesis highlights what a decolonial transnational feminist collective should look like. READ MORE

  4. 23. Do men have any influence in stopping women and girls from undergoing FGM in Sierra Leone? The case of Mabonkani Village in Bombali District

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Thabile Lorraine Sheila Cele; [2020]
    Keywords : Female Genital Mutilation; human rights; traditional harmful practices; social norms and gender inequality.;

    Abstract : ABSTRACT “FGM is known to have no health benefits and has serious, immediate and long-term physical and psychological health consequences, which can be severe, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and reduced desire or sexual satisfaction” (28 Too Many, 2014, p5). This master thesis is an attempt to gain male perspectives in strategies to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Illusion of Making America Great Again - The shifting positionality of states within the global hierarchical structure

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Leonard Carl Novak; [2020]
    Keywords : Global Hierarchies; International Relations; Trump; Positionality; Discourse;

    Abstract : Since the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America, US policy has shifted towards isolation and protectionism, challenging initial patterns of cooperation among the states within the global political order, aiming at improving the American stance in the world. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Norms in the Body: Power structures and their Transgression through Arts-based research

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Author : Esther Kraler; [2019]
    Keywords : arts-based research; body mapping; power structures; embodiment; social change; norms; non belonging; resistance; visual arts; queering; identity-making; discourse; affect;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore the entanglement of various power axes with the body through 'body mapping' and to look into how the implementation of the method enriches research processes. 'Body mapping' is an arts-based method which places the body in the center of social inquiry. READ MORE