Sökning: "coloniality of knowledge"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 uppsatser innehållade orden coloniality of knowledge.
1. The Coloniality of Food Governance in Sweden : An explorative feminist decolonial discourse analysis of the Swedish Food Agency
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusSammanfattning : The Swedish Food Agency is responsible for giving guidelines and recommendations for businesses producing, importing, selling, and serving agricultural products in Sweden. The general discourse of these guidelines and recommendations are based on the notion of safeguarding the consumer from potential risks and harms. LÄS MER
2. How to fail successfully: the struggles of PAR within academia
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten; Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusSammanfattning : This research seeks to explore the origins and values of participatory action research, as well as its role in transforming possibilities to knowledge production and shaping equal relationships between research participants. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and decoloniality and with a focus on the experience of the asylum interview, the research seeks to explore the ways that those epistemological paradigms intertwine with participatory research to deconstruct the dichotomy between researcher and research subject (expert/community) and re-balance the power differentials embedded within academia, canonical knowledge production and traditional research methodologies, to initiate change. LÄS MER
3. Development Studies from a Decolonial Perspective:Discourse Analysis on the OECD Development Reports
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Sammanfattning : The concept of development has been extensively researched, and it isa key topic in political and economic international and domestic agendas.Modernization and globalization theories have been the most prevalentanalytical approaches to development, but from a postcolonial and decolonialperspective, these theories are Western-centric, overgeneralized, andoverused. LÄS MER
4. On the Production of the Humanitarian Subject : A Decolonial Exploration of Innocence
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to explore how humanitarian communication produces subjectivities for individuals. More specifically, it investigates how the innocent modern/colonial humanitarian subject is produced through appeals to emotions. To explore this phenomenon, this thesis develops a decolonial research approach grounded in epistemic disobedience. LÄS MER
5. Colonial Tendencies of Voluntourism: A Postcolonial Analysis of Weltwärts Testimonials
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SociologiSammanfattning : Voluntourism is often described as a sustainable development strategy facilitating Global Learning and cross-cultural exchange. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the voluntourism program Weltwärts strives to create stronger international partnerships, development engagement, and equitable encounters. LÄS MER