Sökning: "empowerment foucault"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 uppsatser innehållade orden empowerment foucault.
1. Pursuing Peace: Strategies Employed by INGOs to Foster Trust between Tamil and Sinhala Communities in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SociologiSammanfattning : The purpose of this study was to examine how INGOs in Sri Lanka work to increase social capital and trust between two specific ethnic groups- the Tamils and Sinhala. The study uses a qualitative approach, where this dissertation draws on Michel Foucault’s Discourse Analysis with the concepts of power/knowledge and governmentality as central themes in the empirical data. LÄS MER
2. PRECARIZATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - An ethnographic study of the working and living conditions of early non-institutional performing arts groups in Gothenburg
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperSammanfattning : In Swedish theatre history, the period 1965–2000 is seen as a time of emergency and establishment of the non-institutional performing arts field and is referred to as the “expansion period”. The performing arts’ field expanded due to the non-institutional performing arts groups, known as the “free groups”, which started to perform in new places, to experiment artistically, to meet new audiences and to raise social questions. LÄS MER
3. Working with Hand, Head, and Heart : A feminist critical discourse analysis of ‘Gender Equality as Smart Economics’
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerSammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to gain more knowledge about the usage of the ‘Gender Equality as Smart Economic’ discourse in corporate-led women’s empowerment initiatives. This discourse can be understood as a vocabulary for discussing the business case for women’s empowerment which has diffused from development institutions to states, NGOs and corporations through a wide range of initiatives, policies, advertisement campaigns and development and humanitarian campaigns. LÄS MER
4. The creation of a democratic food certification : How the Slow Food Participatory Guarantee System attempts to defend local food systems and traditions
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : This thesis explores if and how an alternative certification system for agricultural products, the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), could support small-scale farmers to preserve and promote biocultural and food heritage, linked to the landscape they inhabit, their identity as farmers and traditional knowledge. The PGS has been identified by Slow Food as an efficient low-cost and local 'bottom-up' quality assurance system, in order to develop their Presidia project and to re-embed agricultural productions within their traditional socio-ecological contexts. LÄS MER
5. Women's empowerment in Neo-Paganism : A study of power and gender and what we can learn about women’s empowerment in Neo- Paganism.
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : Too often women have a secondary place in religious institutions, with no possibility to influence or come into leading positions. This thesis aims to understand women’s empowerment by searching for such examples in Neo-Paganism, a growing New Religious Movement (NRM) in the west. LÄS MER
