Essays about: "theories of globalization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 166 essays containing the words theories of globalization.

1. 1. Stitching Sustainability: Exploring the Dynamics of Slow Fashion: A qualitative content analysis of how two Swedish fashion companies operate in practice in relation to a slow fashion framework

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Olivia Malvebo; [2023-10-25]
   Keywords : Slow fashion; fashion industry; supply chain; globalization; gap; consumerism; green critiques of development; Filippa K; Nudie Jeans;

   Abstract : Collective research indicates that the global fashion industry faces extensive challenges within the objective of a just and sustainable development and clarifies the need for slow production and consumption. Slow fashion is both a movement and a theoretical concept aiming to do this, where slow is not time- but quality-based. READ MORE

3. 2. The European Union's identity-building project, and the impact on the Romanian national identity

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Felix Jatko Stålnacke; [2023-10-19]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The research brings up the ongoing debate on how globalization causes increased tension between the Global and Local identity formations. The local identity formations are challenged, and potentially diminishing in the presence of homogenized identities. Suprnationalites, are likewise questioned if they are excluding national identity formations. READ MORE

4. 3. Fighting fire with fire? : An exploration of the relationship between nonviolence and sustainability

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Linnea Johansson Vodusek; [2023]
   Keywords : Nonviolence; Sustainability; Development; Agenda 2030; Sustainable Development Goals; Galtung; Ecocentrism; Gandhi; structural violence; cultural violence; peace; future generations; conflicts; global warming; globalization; knowledge; cooperation and environment;

   Abstract : This study aims at exploring the connections between nonviolence and sustainability in two cases. The relationship between nonviolence and sustainability is identified and discussed in light of the theories on nonviolence of Johan Galtung and theories of the ethical framework of ecocentrism. READ MORE

5. 4. Development Studies from a Decolonial Perspective:Discourse Analysis on the OECD Development Reports

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Ana Lucía Garín Rodríguez; [2023]
   Keywords : Development; Decolonial Thought; Discourse Analysis; Postcolonial and Neo-colonial Theories; OECD; Global South; Wester-centrism.; Pensamiento Decolonial; Subalternidad; Pensamiento Latinoamericano;

   Abstract : The concept of development has been extensively researched, and it isa key topic in political and economic international and domestic agendas.Modernization and globalization theories have been the most prevalentanalytical approaches to development, but from a postcolonial and decolonialperspective, these theories are Western-centric, overgeneralized, andoverused. READ MORE

6. 5. Transnational Organized Crime : What Factors Contribute for Transnational Organized Crime to Expand Across Borders in the European Union?

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

   Author : Ludwig Svedberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Transnational Organized Crime; Globalization; Migration; European Union;

   Abstract : This research paper investigates how Transnational Organized Crime has expanded and increased their presence and their activities across borders in the European Union. Four significant concepts and theories; Globalization, migration, the social embeddedness theory, and the illegal enterprise theory were applied in order to explain how a crucial factor, globalization, in different forms has facilitated for the expansions. READ MORE