Sökning: "Activists"

Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 427 uppsatser innehållade ordet Activists.

1. 31. Embodying the Alternative : Indigenous Activism Online in Response to Reconciliation with Canada.

   Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Författare :Martina Basciani; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Indigenous people; Canada; Reconciliation; activism; digital ethnography;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates strategies of digital activism pursued by Indigenous activists in the age of Reconciliation in Canada. The point of departure is the relationship between Indigenous people and the settler establishment, which has been historically informed by several attempts to assimilate the Natives into the white majority. LÄS MER

3. 32. Fighting for Sustainability: A Case Study about Tenerife's Activism Movement

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

   Författare :Felicitas Brodtrager; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Sustainable destination development; activism; tourism impacts; stakeholder involvement; sustainability; alternative tourism model; system thinking; doughnut economics;

   Sammanfattning : This research explores the perspectives of the opinion leaders of the activism movement in Tenerife on tourism on the island and the solutions proposed by these stakeholders to the current sustainability problems related to tourism. These issues include tourist's misbehavior in natural protected areas, waste, submarine emissions of residual water sewage, water shortage, gentrification, overtourism, overpopulation, 14,6% of unemployment in 2022, decline of agricultural land, high population density, etc. LÄS MER

4. 33. Democratizing Democracy Indices: Towards a More Inclusive Measure

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Megan Kathleen Baxter; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Several large, international institutes and think tanks, like Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), International IDEA, and Freedom House, among others, focus on measuring and tracking government regime types and political environments, primarily through measuring democracies. Yet for all of their sophistication and massive datasets, there are misalignments between democracy scores and human rights for groups that are marginalized in many countries. LÄS MER

5. 34. Conviviality and Conscience: How Degrowth and Abolition Theory Critique and Re-envision Welfare States

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

   Författare :Jillian Fields-Hirschler; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Abolition; Degrowth; Anti-capitalism; Post-growth; Welfare Critique; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Abolition theory and degrowth theory address important issues in the social-political world. An emergent discipline (in academia), abolition theory carefully dissects the ideological and historical underpinnings of the current system of police and prisons in the United States. It offers a systematic critique of their impact. LÄS MER

7. 35. Being queer means being political. A Qualitative study of Queer Activists Lived Experiences and the Silent Support in Contemporary Poland

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Patrycja Natoloczna; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Eastern European studies; Polish studies; Gender Studies; Queer Activism; LGBTQ rights; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : For the fourth year in a row, Poland continues to rank as the lowest country of the European Union on the yearly report on the legal and political situation of queer people in Europe. With constant negative media portrayal of queer communities and homophobic remarks from politicians, Polish queer individuals become antagonized and stigmatized by the society. LÄS MER