Sökning: "Collective dominance"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 38 uppsatser innehållade orden Collective dominance.

  1. 16. The Wish for Stability : From Alienation to Femininity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Författare :Paulina Fischer; [2016]
    Nyckelord :submission; emotional dependency; father figure; gender; alienation; bell hooks; traditional gender roles; violence; male dominance; postcolonial; trauma;

    Sammanfattning : This essay concerns Purple Hibiscus and Kambili's emotional development, and explores how violence, submission and emotional dependence along with a traditional feminine gender role can hinder acknowledgement of trauma. I propose that Kambili is encouraged to take on a culturally expected feminine gender role, and her submissive disposition is discussed and connected to her constant search for a father figure. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Building resilience through food : the case of the Network of Agroecological Peasants' Markets of Valle del Cauca (Red MAC), Colombia

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Författare :Camilo Andres Ardila Galvis; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Alternative Food Networks; social-ecological resilience; agroecology; food systems; collective action; agro-biocultural diversity; Colombia;

    Sammanfattning : The dominance of conventional (chemical and industrial) agriculture has eroded the ecological, economic and socio-cultural conditions to sustain production for a growing population, undermining humanity´s capacity to feed itself (Gliessman, 2007; Altieri & Toledo, 2011). As a consequence, we have a decoupled global food system: the social is decoupled from the ecological; farmers are decoupled from the land; farmers and consumers are decoupled from each other; and culture is decoupled from agri-culture. LÄS MER

  4. 18. IKEA in India : A study of the cultural aspects of deploying an IKEA store in India

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Författare :Anna Tommysdotter; [2016]
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    Sammanfattning : Introduction: This study is about organisational culture and different cultural influences in a cross-cultural environment at an IKEA office in India. Statement of Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to provide increased understanding of the cross-cultural setting in regards to conceptualisation of the concept of culture as well as sense-making and sense-giving processes of employees in a trans-cultural environment in India. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Medkämpe i arbetarklassens stora befrielsekamp : Föreställningar om klass, kön och skötsamhet i tidningen Arbetets Kvinnor 1927-1931

    Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier

    Författare :Heli Kärkkäinen; [2013]
    Nyckelord :blue collar; trade union; female activist; social class; sex; gender; morality; identity; Arbetets Kvinnor; arbetarklass; fackförening; kvinnlig aktivism; kön; genus; moral; identitet; Arbetets Kvinnor;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study of the trade union journal for female blue collar women in Sweden, Arbetets Kvinnor, between 1927 and 1931. The purpose is to examine how a female trade union activist's constructs collective identity by those notions of social class, sex, and moral values that are articulated in the journal. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Regions as Security Providers: The Evolution of the West African Regional Security Complex

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Jan Persson; [2013]
    Nyckelord :West Africa; Regions; Security; Constructivism; Norms; Institutions; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the region in its role as a regional security provider through a within-case study of West Africa. The point of departure is on one hand that contemporary threats to international peace and security are increasingly regional, arising within states rather than from a global or out-of-region origin, and on the other hand that the regions among the world has become salient security providers. LÄS MER