Essays about: "post-development theory"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words post-development theory.

1. 6. Discursive (re)articulations of development policy in the light of Sustainable development goals: The case of Georgia

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

   Author : Ivane Lomidze; [2019]
   Keywords : Discursive change and continuation; Neoliberalism and social democracy in Georgia; Sustainable Development Goals; Post-development theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The paper analyses the ways Georgian government produced development policy in relation to the changing global and local discursive formations of development. By bringing together post-development theory and Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse analysis method, I illustrated that the neoliberal discourse failed to generate meanings regarding social issues that created a danger of the dislocation of the discourse. READ MORE

3. 7. Organic Farming is Coming to Our Valley : The Development of Pumi Eco-Agriculture and the Indigenisation of Modernity in Sino-Myanmar Borderlands

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Ze Gao; [2019]
   Keywords : eco-agriculture; indigenisation of modernity; environmentality; traditional ecological knowledge; agricultural land use; technical practices; governance; Pumi ethnicity; rural development; highland livelihoods; borderland; post-development theory; political ecology; contemporary history; agricultural policy;

   Abstract : How do indigenous people perceive and practice eco-agriculture, especially when it was introduced as a development project? This thesis aims to delve into this question by focusing on a policy-induced agrarian transition for Pumi community in Sino-Myanmar borderlands. Using ethnographic methods, I intend to offer an intimate account of a provincial programme to facilitate eco-agriculture in this ethnic region. READ MORE

4. 8. Volunteer Tourism : How the public opinion has changed and how Post-development ideas are shaping the discourse on volunteer tourism

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Sabina Bäck; [2018]
   Keywords : Volunteer tourism; Post-development theory; power dynamics; altruism; The Huffington post; The Guardian; The Telegraph; The New York Times;

   Abstract : Volunteer tourism is a globally, popular and well-known field in which anyone may participate. During recent years the industry has increasingly received some criticism, in contrast to the otherwise quite commonly positive view of it. READ MORE

5. 9. A critical analysis of the alternative energy-poverty discourse with a case of Kasese district in Uganda: New sites, actors, identities, language, and visions of power

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Adventino Banjwa; [2017]
   Keywords : Alternative energy technologies; Poverty Alleviation; Sustainable Development; Post-development theory; Critical Discourse Analysis; Uganda; Kasese district; Champion District Initiative.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : One of the central themes in recent sustainable Development debates is the idea that alternative energy technological solutions can also alleviate poverty in parts of the global South. This idea is earmarked in this study as the alternative energy-poverty discourse. READ MORE

6. 10. Developing differences

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

   Author : Evie Soli; [2014]
   Keywords : ngoization; NGOs; Qatar; feminism; women s rights; gender; Islamism; volunteering; charity; empowerment; secularism; poverty; Tunisia; development; inclusion; exclusion; marginalization; elites; globalization; colonialism; donors; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study is based on a ten weeks fieldwork in Tunis during the fall of 2013, where I interviewed seven organizations working on social development in marginalized areas. The thesis examines conditions for social development in Tunisia nearly three years after the uprising in 2011, and specifically how different actors perceive themselves and others. READ MORE