Sökning: "emancipatory social science"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden emancipatory social science.
1. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda
Sammanfattning : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. LÄS MER
2. Vulnerability and Power : Social Justice Organizing in Rockaway, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy
Sammanfattning : This is a study about disasters, vulnerability and power. With regards to social justice organizing a particular research problem guides the work, specifically that emancipatory projects are often initiated and steered by privileged actors who do not belong to the marginalized communities they wish to strengthen, yet the work is based on the belief that empowerment requires self-organizing from within. LÄS MER
3. På tal om dyslexi : En studie av hur barn, föräldrar och lärare berättar om och ger betydelse åt diagnoser som dyslexi och specifika läs- och skrivsvårigheter
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this study is to understand how children diagnosed as dyslectics use and ascribe meaning to the diagnosis given to them. The theoretical starting point is social constructionism, implying that dyslexia is a word that signifies a phenomenon, in this case children's problem with reading and writing, which in turn is mediated through a cultural, social and historical context. LÄS MER
4. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory
Sammanfattning : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. LÄS MER
5. Adding Fuel to the Fire : North-South dynamics in the geographies of transport energy: the case of EU biofuels
Sammanfattning : Since the 2000s, the European Union (EU) has promoted biofuels for transport to achieve climate change mitigation, and rural development in the global South. In contrast, critiques have argued that biofuel promotion impedes more meaningful mitigation while also resulting in dispossession of land and loss of labour opportunities in the global South. LÄS MER