Essays about: "privilege-awareness"

Found 2 essays containing the word privilege-awareness.

1. 1. The Colonial Legacies of Internship Programs in International Development - A Qualitative Case Study of Local Staff’s Experiences in Uganda

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Martina Frappa; [2023]
   Keywords : internship; international development; white saviour; decolonisation; privilege-awareness; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Although extensively advertised as a positive practice that enhances students’ intercultural competencies, internship programs have been increasingly criticised for reinforcing simplistic understandings of global development. Often involving students from the Global North engaging in placements with development organisations and institutions in the Global South, these programs perpetuate dynamics of systematic inequality rooted in colonial legacies. READ MORE

3. 2. Between Compassion and Privilege: Identity, Responsibility and Power Among Volunteers Engaged in Refugee Reception

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Daniel Mårs; [2016]
   Keywords : responsibility; orientalism; globalization; identity; emotions; volunteers; refugee reception; power; privilege; class; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Based on a research project on the refugee reception in Malmö, Sweden in the fall of 2015, this thesis explores how volunteers engaged in refugee related aid work acquire two conflicting identity positions. Through compassionate acts they orient between two poles: the refugees and the Swedish society. READ MORE