Sökning: "contemporary social analysis"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 513 avhandlingar innehållade orden contemporary social analysis.
1. Localised Globalities and Social Work : Contemporary Challenges
Sammanfattning : Recent global and structural transformations, a West-centric development agenda and the triumph of neoliberal politics have led to destructive consequences for many local communities and individual life chances. The global dominance of the West-centric development agenda, with its roots in the colonial past, has created uneven developments and an unjust world in which Western countries continue to gain advantages and increase their prosperity. LÄS MER
2. Det sociala livets drama och dess manus : diskursanalys, kön och sociala avvikelser
Sammanfattning : We are the eyes of our discourses. This is the point of departure. The disourses make us see, think, talk, act. be and move in certain ways. LÄS MER
3. Rural Livelihood Options for "a better and more sustainable future". Local perspectives from Myanmar and Morocco
Sammanfattning : In 2015, state leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to address global inequalities and respond to heightened concern about challenges, arising from contemporary global change. This thesis contributes to addressing these challenges, by extending the knowledge base that rural development stakeholders can draw on to co-construct viable livelihood options for vulnerable rural people. LÄS MER
4. At the limits of state governance : territory, property and state making in Lenje Chiefdom, rural Zambia
Sammanfattning : African state property regimes – embedded in a racialized structure of land ownership that stretches back centuries – are at the center of contemporary land struggles. At present, the Zambian government is appropriating ‘traditional land’, controlled by chiefs and headmen molded through colonial rule, in an effort to bring it into the fold of ‘modernity’. LÄS MER
5. Managing Ecclesiastical Heritage - Transformation of Discourses, Roles and Policy in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Religious heritage is in a state of transformation. Changing religious practices and secularization affect the established Christian congregations in many countries, as membership decreases and churches close. During recent years, new approaches to use and develop churches have been explored by the heritage field and the Christian congregations. LÄS MER
