Essays about: "world-system theory"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 29 essays containing the words world-system theory.

  1. 6. In Peripheral Sickness and in Core-like Health: An explorative case study analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic using World-Systems Theory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mimmi Yiyi Shen; David Alexanderson; [2021]
    Keywords : Vaccine nationalism; World-Systems Theory; Covid-19; Global Health Equity; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest in modern history. Vaccines are currently the primary resource used for stopping the pandemic and minimizing harm. READ MORE

  3. 7. Clunkers for Mobility? A critical environmental justice perspective on the EU’s exports of used cars to the Global South

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Sophie Scherger; [2021]
    Keywords : environmental justice; second-hand cars; world-system theory; environmental load displacement; used car trade; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the face of climate change, governments in the Global North have decided on various decarbonisation plans. With the transport sector causing more than a quarter of the global greenhouse gas emissions, its decarbonisation has become a central debate. READ MORE

  4. 8. Migration in the Name of the Money : male and Female Migratory Experience of Rural Youth from Uganda to the Gulfs

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Denis Bisaso; [2020]
    Keywords : labour migration; feminized migration; gendered migration; Uganda; migration to the Gulf countries;

    Abstract : Labour migration is a growing phenomenon around the globe, and it is rather self-evident that people move to achieve better life conditions or flee adverse circumstances. Significant in this growth is the mobile continent, Africa having substantial numbers of its people on the move. READ MORE

  5. 9. Simulation and Analysis of Queueing System

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Yucong Zhang; [2019]
    Keywords : Queueing theory; 2. Queueing system simulation; 3. System optimization; 4. Computer systems; 5. Data analytics;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a discrete-event simulation framework that can be used to analyze  and  dimension  computing  systems.  The  simulation  framework  can define  and  parametrize  the  flexible  queueing  system.  We  use  the  simulation framework to explore the data collected from the real-world system. READ MORE

  6. 10. The banking of education for sustainable development : A critical discourse analysis of the World Bank’s education policy from a modern/colonial world system perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Sera Cecilia Hejlskov; [2019]
    Keywords : Coloniality; education; sustainable development; modernity; hegemonic culture; subaltern theory; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Throughout colonial history, education has been used actively in an attempt to assimilate subaltern cultures into the colonizers’ realm. This study looks at the relationship between education of children in developing countries as a tool within sustainable development in relation to the colonial past and modern day coloniality. READ MORE