Essays about: "power and solidarity"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 50 essays containing the words power and solidarity.

  1. 11. The Power of Solidarity : An Analysis of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Noor Kamaluldeen; [2022]
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  3. 12. People help the people: A critical discourse analysis of NGO activism against water privatisation in El Salvador

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Line Lundager Olsen; [2022]
    Keywords : activism; El Salvador; water politics; water privatisation; power; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns itself with the current state of water activism in El Salvador. For 20 years the topic has been a point of conflict for the nation, with both wins and losses for the water activists. The previous academic research into this consists of ethnographic studies. READ MORE

  4. 13. Solidarity in decolonization : Indigenous-Environmentalist alliance and the struggle against clearcutting in Sápmi

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Helena Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : Sápmi; solidarity; decolonization; clearcutting; internal colonialism; post-colonialism; knowledge-practices; environmentalism; social movements;

    Abstract : This study concerns the alliance against clearcutting that has been formed between the Swedish environmental movement and the Sami movement. Earlier studies on environmentalist/Indigenous alliances have found that such cooperation often has been formed through reproductions of a colonial political relationship, perpetuating Indigenous peoples' structural marginality. READ MORE

  5. 14. White inside: a critical examination of how structural whiteness in the Dutch climate movement obstructs climate justice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Agnes Schim van der Loeff; [2022]
    Keywords : whiteness; climate justice; climate movement; solidarity; the Netherlands; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite attention for lack of racial diversity in climate movements in the Global North, there is little examination of other manifestations of whiteness. This thesis examines how structural whiteness – as a norm and as a power structure – shapes the Dutch climate movement’s relation to climate justice and how these impacts can be countered. READ MORE

  6. 15. New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Lisa Pier; [2022]
    Keywords : extractivism; development; resistance; re-imagination; decoloniality; alternatives; self-determination; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist resistance. READ MORE