Sökning: "power asymmetries"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden power asymmetries.

  1. 1. Rethinking power in participatory planning : Towards reflective practice

    Författare :Martin Westin; Kaisa Raitio; Tim Richardson; Camilo Calderon; Jonna Bornemark; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Power; participation; frame theory; planning; planners; facilitation; reflective practice; phronesis; Makt; deltagande; dialog; ramteori; planering; planerare; facilitering; process design; reflekterande praktik;

    Sammanfattning : High hopes for democracy and sustainability are placed on participatory planning. Policy makers and scholars argue that broad participation can revitalise democracy and tackle sustainability challenges. Yet, critics claim that power asymmetries stand in the way of realising the potential of participatory planning. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Renewing power : Including global asymmetries within the system boundaries of solar photovoltaic technology

    Författare :Andreas Roos; Humanekologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; solar energy; photovoltaic technology; ecologically unequal exchange; philosophical materialism; social metabolism; political artifacts; authoritarian technics; machine fetishism; environmental justice; environmental sustainability; solar power;

    Sammanfattning : Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the most favored means of mitigating climate change. At the same time, there is a growing concern over how this technology is both environmentally harmful and unevenly distributed in the world economy. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Social Hierarchies between Democracy and Autocracy

    Författare :Björn Toelstede; Gustav Tinghög; Ali M. Ahmed; Luc Bovens; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democracy; Autocracy; Social hierarchies; Power asymmetries; pro- and anti-sociality; Path-dependence; Principal-agent chains;

    Sammanfattning : Social hierarchies exist in democracies as well as in authoritarian societies. However, their nature is different. Democratic hierarchies are built bottom-up through election, while autocratic hierarchies are built top-down through coalition formation and domination. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism

    Författare :Daniel Møller Ølgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; humanitarianism; digital media; technopolitics; postphenomenology; mediation theory; power; materiality; imaginaries; algorithms; social media; virtual reality; apps;

    Sammanfattning : Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Caregiving Dilemmas : Ideology and Social Interactionin Tanzanian Family Life

    Författare :Sofia Johnson Frankenberg; Rolf Holmqvist; Birgitta Rubenson; Akunda Mbise; Trine Kjörholt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Caregiving dilemmas; ideology; child rights; interaction; language socialization; Tanzania; early childhood relationships; participation; power asymmetries; Omsorgsdilemman; ideologi; barns rättigheter; interaktion; språksocialisation; Tanzania; tidiga barndoms relationer; deltagande; makt asymmetrier;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores caregiving ideology and social interaction in Tanzanian families with a focus on guidance and control of young children. The study is set within a context of social change in terms of urbanization as well as the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. LÄS MER