Essays about: "post-colonial critique"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words post-colonial critique.

  1. 1. Managing trees and power relations : analysing power in two tree restoration projects in central Tanzania

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Linus Linse; [2023]
    Keywords : nature restoration; power relations; carbon forestry;

    Abstract : Nature restoration and carbon forestry projects in the Global South are considered central tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Proponents claim that projects have the potential to deliver win-win solutions, supporting poverty alleviation and local empowerment in addition to environmental benefits and carbon sequestration. READ MORE

  3. 2. Underdevelopment : A case-study of Nigeria

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Mohamed Mudei Hassan; [2022]
    Keywords : Underdevelopment; Nigeria; Neo-Classical Realism; Dependency theory; Resource dependence; Prebendalism; Lax institutions; Sino-Nigerian relations;

    Abstract : Underdevelopment has plagued Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), since independence the post-colonial African states have experienced extreme poverty, unemployment, and other economic ailments that have persisted in the region. The aim of this thesis is to critique the null hypothesis of dependency theorists that it is structural factors that cause underdevelopment instead this study proposes an alternative hypothesis through Neo-Classical Realism to explain that it is in fact state-level actors and domestic issues that are the true culprit of causing the dependent variable. READ MORE

  4. 3. Orientalism - A Netflix Unlimited Series : A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the Orientalist Representations of Arab Identify on Netflix Film and Television

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Stefan Maatouk; [2021]
    Keywords : Netflix; Orientalism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Othering; Media; Power; Knowledge; Ideology; Hegemony;

    Abstract : Orientalism was a term developed by post-colonial theorist Edward Said to describe the ways in which Europeans, or the West, portrayed the Orient as inferior, uncivilized, and wholly anti-Western. Netflix Inc. READ MORE

  5. 4. Towards Reconciliation? - An analysis of post-colonial structures within the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hanna Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : Post-colonialism; Reconciliation; Indigenous peoples; Power; Canada; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Canada has a long history of colonialism that ended in 1867. Before and after this the Indigenous peoples have been the target of several assimilation strategies, the most famous being the Indian Residential Schools system. To deal with its legacy, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was set up. READ MORE

  6. 5. “O Brave New World, That Has Such Critics In’t”: An Argumentative Essay on Criticism of The Tempest

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Amkiram Moors; [2014]
    Keywords : The Tempest; criticism; over-reading; Caliban; Shakespeare; post-colonialism; psychoanalysis; biographical; ideological;

    Abstract : Shakespeare criticism has been a rapidly evolving field of literary studies. Scholars such as Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, Meredith Anne Skura, Stanley Wells, Harold Bloom and Sidney Shanker have continuously developed new theories and dismissed previous theories. READ MORE