Sökning: "colonial violence"

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1. 1. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Författare :Jane Mejdahl; [2023]
   Nyckelord :South Korea; Transnational adoption; Storytelling; Birthmothers; Everyday violence; Motherhood; Gender; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. LÄS MER

3. 2. Bringing human rights due diligence into law: Addressing modern slavery or business as usual? : A postcolonial assessment of the UK Modern Slavery Act’s compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Isabelle Kämpe; [2023]
   Nyckelord :UK Modern Slavery Act; MSA; UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; UNGP; modern slavery; human rights due diligence; HRDD; supply chain; transparency; postcolonialism; neo-colonialism; dependency theory;

   Sammanfattning : Operating through complex supply chains and multiple jurisdictions, today’s business enterprises can outsource manufacturing to different parts of the world where they can take advantage of low labour- and production costs. In the global quest for businesses to maximise their profits, deteriorating working conditions for offshore labour workers are increasing the risks of human rights abuses. LÄS MER

4. 3. Salesians in Cambodia: The Shore Remains The Case Study of Don Bosco Kep

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Författare :Mária Dominika Vanková; [2023]
   Nyckelord :religious peace-building; friendship; dialogue; poverty-alleviation; Salesians of Don Bosco; Catholicism; Buddhism; Cambodia; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how Salesian Institutes are related to religious peace-building in post-colonial and post-conflict Cambodia. It examines if and how the Catholic-Salesian multi-religious educational mission system is able to peacefully co-exist in a Buddhist Cambodian society, and collaborate with other minority religions present – Protestant, Muslim, and non-religious in promoting education for poor children and demoting inequalities. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Effects of Indirect Rule on Electoral Violence : A Quantitative Study

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Fabian Stigar; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Electoral violence; Colonial legacies; Indirect rule; Direct rule;

   Sammanfattning : Elections are a democratic process intended to create peaceful and legitimate transfers of power. However, since the second and third waves of democratisation, policymakers and researchers have observed that electoral processes are transformed into arenas for political gain through violence. LÄS MER

7. 5. Gender-based violence against Women with Disabilities in Uganda - A qualitative study about how local organizations are working with the issue

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Författare :Klara Bengtsson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Gender-based violence (GBV) is both a human right violation, a threat to develop-ment and a global health issue. Women with disabilities (WWD) are a group more exposed to GBV. However, research has been scarce about WWD and GBV, espe-cially in the Global South. LÄS MER