Sökning: "postcolonial"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 862 uppsatser innehållade ordet postcolonial.

  1. 21. Voice, Agency, and Urgency : Three Ecocritical Readings of Nature and the Protagonist in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

    Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Annika Salisbury; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ecocriticism; postcolonial ecocriticism; ecofeminism; climate change criticism; voice; agency; urgency.; Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ekokritik; postkolonial ekokritik; ekofeminism; klimatkritik; röst; agens; brådska.;

    Sammanfattning : The female protagonist Catherine Danielle Clark (Kya) in Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is abandoned by her family at a young age and grows up alone in a marshland environment in 1950s North Carolina. Shunned by the local community, Kya relies on nature to help her survive and to teach her about life and love—until one day she finds herself accused of murder. LÄS MER

  3. 22. 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. 23. The crisis of International criminal law in Africa: An African perspective on international criminal law and (in)security governance

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Rukiatu Fatmata Sheriff; [2023]
    Nyckelord :International Criminal Court; African Union; Ontological Security; anxieties; Postcoloniality; international criminal justice; Third World Approaches to International Law; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Since coming into force the International Criminal Court, has been challenged with a series of issues. Criticism, especially, from African states has forwarded the underlying anxieties that riddles this relatively new institution of international criminal justice. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Artificiell Intelligens, Etik och Mänskliga Rättigheter : En kritisk analys av UNESCO:s etiska rekommendationer kring Artificiell Intelligens utifrån ett postkolonialt perspektiv.

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Emma Svedenblad; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Artificiell Intelligens; UNESCO; Postkolonialism; Etik;

    Sammanfattning : English title: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Human Rights: a critical analysis of the UNESCO recommendation on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence from a post colonial perspective.  The purpose of this essay is to examine the recommendations on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Rasism i USA genom två konstnärer och deras kritikers ögon : Hur Philip Guston och Henry Taylor uppmärksammar förtryck mot afroamerikaner och hur de har bemötts av kritiker och konstnärliga institutioner

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Ziggy Lindholm; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Art history; semiotics; signs; oppression; reception; Philip Guston; Henry Taylor; KKK; self-portrait; history; racism; interpretation; Konstvetenskap; semiotik; tecken; förtryck; reception; Philip Guston; Henry Taylor; KKK; självporträtt; historia; rasism; tolkning;

    Sammanfattning : This essay investigates how Philip Guston and Henry Taylor explore the subject of African American oppression in their art and how they have been received by critics and art institutions. Using semiotics based on Hans Haydens article “Den omplacerade koden: Om Edgar Degas Interiör”, this essay explores how meaning is created in signs existing within the respective artists’ works. LÄS MER