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Participation for a 'People-Driven' Constitution?: A Critical Investigation of Zambian Civil Society Engagement in the Constitution-Making Process
(2010-09-10)
This study explores with theoretical and practical challenges surrounding the roles of civil society organizations (CSOs) and participatory approaches in development and democratization processes in contemporary Africa. ...
"Take a Picture with a Real Indian": (Self-) Representation, Ecotourism, and Indigeneity in Amazonia
(2011-09-06)
This thesis uses three case studies to analyze and contextualize the interface between Western conceptions of indigenous peoples and nature and community-based conservation and development schemes in the Amazon: Kapawi ...
Testing the Principles of Transformational Development: A Case Study of Christian Education in Nicaragua
(2014-08-25)
Nicaraguan history is fraught with conflict, disasters and economic hardships. Among these challenges the religious nature of the population has remained. But, these faith perspectives have shifted and often have become ...
The Road to Health is Paved with 'Good Intentions': A Cautionary Three Part Tale for Global Health in the Spirit of Reproductive Justice
(2010-12-20)
The following paper explores three case studies of large-scale forced and coercive surgical sterilizations on indigenous women in Canada, the United States and Peru. The author utilizes settler colonialism as explanation ...
"To Overcome" Contexts of Violence: Popular Education and Historical Memory in a Maya Achi Community
(2012-12-12)
Postwar Guatemala continues to contend with ongoing criminal and state violence, insecurity, racial exclusion and disparity, exacerbated by neoliberal and neocolonial economic policies. These patterns are rooted in centuries ...
‘"IT'S NOT MY STORY": THE DEVELOPMENT DISCONNECT BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE NARRATIVES OF COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY MINING IN PERU'S ANDES’
(2013-05-06)
This thesis examines the disconnect between the stated intentions of mining companies and narratives of hegemonic dispossession from mining-affected communities in the Andean region of Peru. The study focuses on Barrick ...
Making Development Marketable: The Politics of Image and Representation within Consumer Driven Schemes of Development Fundraising
(2011-09-06)
This project examines a new and growing form of international development fundraising, which constructs and packages development as a product of consumption in order to achieve its goals of awareness and fundraising. These ...
FORMER GIRL SOLDIERS IN COLOMBIA: YOUNG VOICES THAT NEED TO BE HEARD
(2014-04-28)
The exclusion of girls is an issue of great concern when studying the impact of war on individuals in any country affected by armed conflicts. Colombia, for instance, is currently facing an armed conflict and dealing with ...
Experiential Learning for Health Development: A case Study of the Leadership of the Highlands Hope Umbrella
(2013-08-21)
This study focuses on the relationship between leadership and change in grassroots organizations and how they can improve health conditions within their community. Taking an experiential learning approach to health ...
POST-SOVIET RUSSIA’S HISTORIC COMPROMISE, 1992-1998: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RE-FEUDALIZATION DURING SOCIOECONOMIC COLLAPSE
(2013-08-21)
During the period of 1992-1998, Russia underwent a transition from a centralized economy to a market economy with devastating socioeconomic consequences, and industrial decline, which has resulted in demographic crises. ...