Essays about: "transformative work"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 64 essays containing the words transformative work.

  1. 21. Feminist Organising in ‘Feminist’ States: A Qualitative Study of the Shift to Feminist Governance in Sweden and its Impact on Feminist Civil Society Organisations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Lisa Börjel; [2022]
    Keywords : state feminism; civil society; gender mainstreaming; gendered violence; agency; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Sweden was one of the first countries in the world to declare that it had a feminist government, following years of high rankings on global gender equality indexes and a relatively stable image of Sweden as a gender equality leader. However, the declaration has been accompanied by scholarly inquiry defying claims connected to Swedish feminist governance, often challenging its transformative capacity, and bringing to question who is included in its vision. READ MORE

  3. 22. A study of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). : Diagnosis through the lenses of classical Economics.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknik

    Author : Subham Dalai; [2022]
    Keywords : NFTs Non-Fungible Tokens ; concept of value; value perception; classical economics; ownership; property; digital fetishism; community building.;

    Abstract : NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are digital assets representing real-world objects like art, music, videos, gaming items, etc., originally, they reside on a blockchain indicating a certificate of authenticity or proof of ownership deeming the uniqueness and scarcity of commodities. READ MORE

  4. 23. Embracing Precarity: Attending to Vulnerability and Negative Affects in E J-yong’s The Bacchus Lady

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Joanne Lamming; [2022]
    Keywords : Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis attends to vulnerability and precarity within visual representation by analysing the negative affects bound to the experience of social exclusion. The study explores what it might mean to embrace and not overcome 'bad feelings' like shame and alienation using the visual example of an elderly prostitute–a ‘Bacchus Lady’– in E J-yong's 2016 film The Bacchus Lady. READ MORE

  5. 24. "There's always people around to help". A study of worldviews, social practices, and autonomy in Freetown Christiania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : David Amado-Blanco Gonzalez; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainability science; inner dimensions; interstitial spaces; urban squatting; social practices; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Sustainability science has recently seen a growth of literature focused on individuals’ “inner dimensions” as a vehicle for transformative social change, an approach argued to be too individualistic. This thesis fits between both excessively structural and individualistic models of social transformation by framing inner dimensions into a theory of social change through collective action. READ MORE

  6. 25. Solving the Climate Crisis? : WWF’s and La Via Campesina’s Work on Mitigating Climate Change Through a Gramscian Lens

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

    Author : Lisa Tover; [2022]
    Keywords : Climate change; Gramsci; hegemony; WWF; La Via Campesina; Critical Discourse Analysis; neoliberalism; alterglobalisation movement; global environmental governance;

    Abstract : This thesis conducts a comparative study of two big, international civil society organisations, La Via Campesina and WWF, and their work with climate change. The purpose is to investigate why they have such different perspectives toward solving the climate crisis, and whether the explanation can be found by looking at the different positions they have in relation to the global hegemonic system. READ MORE