Essays about: "race and class"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 74 essays containing the words race and class.

  1. 16. Turning a threat of climate migration into an opportunity for development? The gendered logics of the Asian Development Bank’s climate migration discourses

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

    Author : Dayoon Kim; [2021]
    Keywords : climate migration; mobility; gender; Asian Development Bank; poststructuralism; the Logics approach; global economy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Climate migration is an emerging topic of research and policymaking in the region of Asia and the Pacific. Migration in the context of climate change is mediated by social, political, and historical factors not solely dependent on the impacts of climate change. READ MORE

  3. 17. Who runs the movement? : a feminist empirical analysis of gender dimensions of the climate movement in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Inky Vos; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Movements; Gender; Climate movement; Diversity; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Rooted in the environmental movement, the climate movement in Sweden is on the rise and increasingly gaining support in its fight against climate change and its unequal impacts. If successful, the movement can play an important role in changing society. READ MORE

  4. 18. "A matter of life and death": An intersectional study on black women’s political participation in Brazil

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Latinamerikainstitutet

    Author : Kelly Matias dos Santos; [2020]
    Keywords : Black women in politics; female political participation; black feminism; intersectionality; Brazil; intersectional research.;

    Abstract : Brazil is in the 132nd position in the ranking for female parliamentary participation according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s latest report (2019). Black women are the ones least involved in national politics. In the state of São Paulo 94 state Deputies were elected in 2018, of these only 11 are women and only 3 are black. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Caged Bird’s Free Flight : Analyzing Intersectionality in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with the Aim of Empowering Pupils in the EFL Classroom to Speak Out Against Inequality and Prejudice

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Karin Risedal Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Maya Angelou; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; upper secondary school; EFL classroom; critical race theory pedagogy; intersectionality; racism; gender; class; autobiography;

    Abstract : The aim of this master’s thesis was to study the portrayal of discrimination that occurs because of multiple factors in Maya Angelou’s book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The analysis has been conducted through the lens of Critical Race theory as the theory draws on the affiliation between race, racism and power. READ MORE

  6. 20. The Intersections of Race and Class-Based Social Movements under Fordism: Rediscovering a Neglected Form of Critical Social Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Jonas Grahn; [2020]
    Keywords : Race and class; Johnson-Forest tendency; Hegelian Marxism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : When critical scholars coming from different academic disciplines, such as sociology, gender studies, or Black studies, meet and discuss today, discussions sometimes take the form of whether recognition of particular identities or redistribution of material resources is of most importance. In this thesis, my aim is to explore resources that could contribute to moving beyond this framing of the question, which inevitably implies that one always would need to step back in order for the other to move forward. READ MORE