Essays about: "world-systems theory"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words world-systems theory.
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11. Framing Development in a New Global Order: A critical discourse analysis of British media’s portrayal of Chinese developmental involvement in Africa
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis purpose is to look at British media’s coverage of Chinese developmental involvement in Africa, particularly at how the most-read newspapers in the UK have written about the situation, and how they have used media framing when reporting on it. As media can have an enormous impact on people’s perception of certain situations, this paper’s aim is to analyse the media discourse and offer an explanation for why it might look as it does, what the causes are and what effects could be. READ MORE
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12. An Unequal Partnership: Nyasaland and the Central African Federation, 1953-1963.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : From 1953-1963 Nyasaland was a part of the Central African Federation, along with Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The establishment of the Federation was hugely unpopular in Nyasaland due to fears it would be dominated by the white settler community in Southern Rhodesia. READ MORE
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13. Countries Divided, Shared Pollution: Whose Mess is it? A Case Study on the issue of Transnational Border Sewage in the Tijuana River Valley Watershed
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This thesis critically examines the issue of shared border sewage between San Diego and Tijuana. In light of the recent sewage spill in February of 2017, dumping 143 million gallons of raw sewage into the Tijuana River, the phenomena of border sewage in the transnational environment of the Tijuana River Watershed has been a topic of interest in local and international contexts; raising questions of how this issue came about, what is causing it, and why it’s still happening. READ MORE
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14. The Relationship between Gold Mining and the Local Economy: A Case Study from Burkina Faso
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This study looks at the effect international mining corporations have on local economic activity around gold mines in Burkina Faso. It also asks whether the mines have any additional effects, such as changes in poverty or inequality. READ MORE
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15. The Mongolian Mining Industry's Impact on the Livelihoods of Nomadic Herders
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Mongolia, known as the Land of the Nomads is one of the last few countries where a significant portion of the population lives as nomadic herders. Since the Soviet Era and past the democratization of the country, the once nomadic herders are seen moving from the steppes to the major urban centers. READ MORE
