Essays about: "women as agents of change"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 27 essays containing the words women as agents of change.
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6. Documentary as a Medium to Advance a Public Apology to Comfort Women in a Transitional Justice Context
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This thesis explores how the documentary film The Apology (as a medium) and its filmmaker (as a carrier group) functions as connection points between cultural trauma and transitional justice reparations driving social change. Earlier approaches to bringing justice to comfort women have been based on legal frameworks which this thesis considers restrictive and instead examines justice and reparations from a victim-centred perspective. READ MORE
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7. Looking into the black box: The roles of development workers in enhancing climate resilience and gender equality for ethnic minority women through the EmPower project in Vietnam
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : The climate change-gender nexus has increasingly become the arena in which adaptation interventions take place. One such intervention is the EmPower program in the Asia-Pacific region by UN Women and UNEP. This research is a case study on how one program component on women’s renewable energy entrepreneurship is implemented in Vietnam. READ MORE
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8. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle
University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE
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9. What about Sweden and climate justice? A discourse analysis on Swedish development cooperation policy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a study on Swedish development cooperation policy, aiming to understand the approach to environmental- and climate change issues between 2010-2021. By using a theoretical framework focused on climate justice combined with the method of discourse analysis, the analysis is guided by four questions regarding: climate injustices, solutions, actors, and nature. READ MORE
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10. When Women’s Experiences go Unrecognized : A qualitative content analysis of women’s diverse experiences of conflict in Nepal
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Conflict is a gendered phenomenon and in later years research have discovered how women play several different roles in conflict. They can experience it as victims and hence be vulnerable to forms of violence, as well as agents where the women are either a warring actor or works an agent of change. READ MORE
