Sökning: "Non-western knowledge"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 uppsatser innehållade orden Non-western knowledge.

1. 1. A labour-free childhood? African perspectives on international child rights policies.

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande

   Författare :Dorotea Reuterswärd; [2024-01-16]
   Nyckelord :childhood; child labour; child rights; policy; literature review; ideal type; postcolonialism; Africa;

   Sammanfattning : This paper notes that one prominent trait of Western thinking about children is that childhood should be protected and care-free. For example, if children are engaged in work, their childhood is seen as 'lost'. LÄS MER

3. 2. A labour-free childhood? African perspectives on international child rights policies.

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande

   Författare :Dorotea Reuterswärd; [2023-11-22]
   Nyckelord :childhood; child labour; child rights; policy; literature review; ideal type; postcolonialism; Africa;

   Sammanfattning : This paper notes that one prominent trait of Western thinking about children is that childhood should be protected and care-free. For example, if children are engaged in work, their childhood is seen as 'lost'. LÄS MER

4. 3. Intercultural Dialogue : Perceptions of the Maternal Health Care of Indigenous Females in Veracruz, México

   Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Ana Maria Camber; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Interculturality; multicultural; western health care; indigenous peoples; indigenous females; Mexico; hegemony;

   Sammanfattning : Cultural traditions in indigenous peoples about maternity, childbirth and puerperium are fundamental bases to their history and knowledge for the well-being of the community. However, government and private health services in general only offer Western birthing practices, making pregnant indigenous women fall between two systems: one based on their traditions and beliefs but weakened by poor resourcing and inefficiencies, and the other by policies of acculturation. LÄS MER

5. 4. Beyond Western Knowledge: Indigenous and Local Knowledges on Disaster Risk Reduction -A field study in rural Thailand

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Linnea Johansson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Disaster risk reduction; Indigenous and local knowledge systems; Thailand; Indigenous and local communities; Natural hazards; Non-western knowledge; Pressures to Indigenous and local knowledge systems;

   Sammanfattning : Natural hazards are predicted to only increase in frequency and severity over the next decade, making it crucial to avoid their negative consequences by disaster risk reduction. Reducing risks of natural hazards is not a recent invention as it has been shown that indigenous and local communities possess indigenous and local knowledge systems related to reducing disaster risks. LÄS MER

7. 5. Locating Indigenous Agencies in Climate Policies of the Arctic : Positionalities of Indigenous People(s) and Traditional Knowledge in the Science-Policy Discourse of Climate Change

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

   Författare :Justiina Mattila; [2022]
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   Sammanfattning : Indigenous people in the Arctic are recognized as being on front line of confronting the effects of changing climate as well as of the global measures taken for its management, however, remaining marginalized under the conventional ways of governing. This thesis examines the positionalities of indigenous people(s) and traditional knowledge in the science-policy discourse of climate change. LÄS MER