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1. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : What makes an non-governmental organisation (NGO) agile and resilient towards changes, pressures or uncertainties at community, state or macro-political level? By adopting a single case study based on semi-structured interviews and fieldwork, this thesis will dive into the life-world of a community-based NGO based in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Social Needs Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA) has since founding in the 1980s had a strong rights-based identity and evolved through various phases of community organising, disaster relief work, evidence-based advocacy and upholding of fisher communities traditional and customary rights. LÄS MER
2. Maktens närvaro i biståndsarbete : En kvalitativ fallstudie av anställdas maktposition vid Act Svenska kyrkan
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : Exercising power is unavoidable in aid work because donors convey money to grant recipients. Exercising power is therefore part of aid work and something donors and recipients must relateto. LÄS MER
3. “Smart economics” within Family Planning : An analysis of the framings of Family Planning initiatives and their relation to “smart economics”
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This study examines a chosen set of prominent actors within family planning initiatives aimed toward the global South to find out if there are traces of “smart economics” within the framings of the initiatives. The smart economic framework has received critique for instrumentalising women and using gender equality as a tool rather than a goal. LÄS MER
4. To Empower or To Help? : Analyzing Sida's Conceptualization of "The Local Population"
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The relationship between the Global North and the Global South is a complicated one, tainted with guilt, exploitation and the dilemma of if and how to help. Critically analyzing Global North activity in the Global South is of importance in further determining what role Global North actors should have in Global South development. LÄS MER
5. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenSammanfattning : Climate change and hazard events pose an existential threat to human rights. Hazard events were traditionally viewed as ‘natural disasters’ which were beyond our control and the people caught up in them were unfortunate victims to the unstoppable force of nature. LÄS MER