Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på emneord "Development"
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After the Storm. Natural Disasters and Development in Vietnam
(Master thesis, 2008-06-27)This thesis describes the many processes which happen when a natural disaster occurs. Fieldwork was done in Ben Tre province, one year after a typhoon had hit the coastal province in the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam. ... -
Aspirations & responsibilities. a qualitative study among female care workers in Khayelitsha
(Master thesis, 2011-03-07)In 1997 the South African Department of Social Welfare presented the White Paper for Social Welfare as a strategy to compensate for the apartheid regime's exclusion of the black majority for decades. In this document they ... -
Challenging the Gaze. The study of a Socially Conscious Photographic Initiative based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2011-06-23)The aim of this thesis is to consider the real life interplay between ambitions and restrictions to aDhaka based photographic initiative, with the core objective to contest stereotypicalrepresentations of Bangladesh in ... -
Development for whom? Narratives on the impact of Chinese involvement in Angola
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)The rise of China challenges the unipolar world dominated by the West and the capitalism seen after the end of the cold war. Africa, in particular, has been dominated by the West during the last decades. The economic ... -
Migrant Labour and its impact on development in India.A case study from the new city of Gurgaon
(Master thesis, 2014-09-01)I utviklingsland har det lenge vært en trend at i hovedsak enslige migranter deltar i den ekstensive den rural-urbane migrasjon. Med enslige migranter er det her ment migranter som reiser uten familie eller annet følge. ... -
Power, resistance and development in the global south: notes towards a critical research agenda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)This article engages with radical critiques of the Eurocentric grammar of development discourses. I start from a position of considerable sympathy with their appreciation of the discursive dimensions of power that attach ... -
Projects, Donors, and Discourses: A Critical Look at Experiences and Representations in a Chinese Environmental NGO
(Master thesis, 2009-12-16)Why are there so many assumptions about NGOs and so fewattempts to describe the projects and procedures of specificNGOs? My thesis looks at the experiences of the leaders andworkers of a NGO in Yunnan, China, and seeks to ...