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Climate Justice as anti-corporate economic mobilization
No full textThe Climate Justice Movement (CJM) has been recognized and analyzed as part of the global deliberations on climate change in the fields' international political economy and political ecology. This chapter focuses on the "invention" of Climate Justice (CJ) as a concept for radical climate change mobilization. It analyzes how the central presence of economic demands began to diverge and transform in a different direction while retaining core phrases and demands going back to 1999. The historical context of the 1991 summit reflects an ambition to organize around environmental justice and a critical stance towards a perceived underlying structural racism in the approach of the "group of 10" main US environmental organizations. The concept of the Just Transition places the report firmly in the economic debate between North American unions and the environmental justice movement that had been taking place since the 1970s. A Just Transition concretely requires new sources of finance for both jobs and alternative energy resources.</p
The American Frontier and the Scandinavians: The positioning of Scandinavian immigrants throughout the American Expansion 1862-1914
No full textAfter the Genocide - An empirical study of memory politics in Cambodia and its effect on the country's memory community
No full textOn the 17th of April in 1975 the Khmer Rouge seized the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, and forced over two million people to flee to the countryside. On this day the Khmer Rouge put in the final piece that would establish a new order in Cambodia, under the leadership of Pol Pot and the Democratic Kampuchea. During its almost four-year-long tenure, nearly two million people died as the result of forced labour, mass starvation, decease, murder, and internment camps. When the regime fell to Vietnamese forces in January 1979, its leaders went into hiding, and millions of Cambodians returned to their daily lives without any sort of resolution or justice for the grievances that the Khmer Rouge had committed. Finally, in 1997 The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia were established, and in 2007 the first out of nine court proceedings against former Khmer Rouge members began. This thesis seeks to examine how Cambodia's government's History and Memory Politics have affected the country’s Collective Memory about the genocide, and which role the international society played in the formation of this collective memory. This thesis draws on theories about Memory Collective, Memory Places, and Historical Consciousness and Identity. As well as the theories on Transitional Justice and Reconciliation. The first part of the thesis analysis focuses on History and Memory Politics in Cambodia, both national and international. The second part focuses on Memory and Justice projects and their effect on the country’s Memory Collective. The final part of the analysis focuses on the role of history in a post-traumatic society, as well as availability and memoirs. In order to best examine these subjects, I have used archives, memoirs, articles, as well as prior-made research from noted researchers within the field.This thesis concludes that the History and Memory Politics led by the Cambodian government society may have had an adverse effect on the Cambodian people and their ability to create a healthy Memory Collective. Moreover, the thesis concludes that the handling of the aftermath may have had a lasting effect on the Cambodian society and its ability to remember and deal with its history. The slow process of justice, as well as the low level of availability of knowledge and information to the average Cambodian, has led to a fractured society, where the younger generation does not know or understand what their older relatives went through, and where the older generation feels unresolved
H.C Andersen in Rome in the year 1833-1834
No full textAbstract:The world-famous poet Hans Christian Andersen, like the young people of today, took on an educational journey to Rome, to learn about the world outside and to know it, and to get to know the cultural heritage of the ancient world. In this thesis, I get around H. C. Andersen's impression of the journey of formation, but also compare it with other writers who traveled to Rome in the same period. The thesis is based on the problem formulation “how Andersen's description of Rome differ from other Danish educational travel descriptions in the present?”It is investigated how H.C Andersen differs from some of the other travel descriptions. For H.C. Andersen, the journey to Rome was the starting point for his writing, for which he has today become famous. The educational journeys helped to develop Denmark Artistic, Architectural and Literary art based on the ideals that the artists, architects and poets adopted and carried out in their work.<br/
Surveillance - ethic and memory
No full textThe purpose of this project is to examine whether collective memory in the history of Denmark and Germany affects our attitude towards surveillance. The project investigates the problematics and impacts of surveillance for both the subject and society in general. This project will give an account of Toni Weller and Anders Albrechtslund’s thoughts and theories towards the development of surveillance in history and to define the concept of trust. Furthermore, we will use the theoretician Michel Foucault’s thoughts about discipline, power and surveillance to define how surveillance becomes a mean of power and discipline. Additionally, it will include an ethical analysis of representative arguments for and against surveillance. With use of deontological and utilitarian points of view, the analysis focuses on the ethical argumentation from the selected persons. Based on the analysis of collective memory the project will discuss the problematics of surveillance, with use of the following terms: trust, power, safety and security. The project shows that the phenomena still is affected by the many attitudes and opinions, which makes it very difficult and complex. It is concluded that our hypothesis is in one way or another confirmed, that surveillance is an ethical dilemma with lots of ethics problematics. Finally, the project shows that collective memory clearly affects the arguments and opinions upon surveillance
Restoration of Nature on Agricultural Areas in Denmark - a Casestudy of Cultivated Swampland Around the 'Tempelkrogen' Area: a Casestudy of Cultivated Swampland Around the 'Tempelkrogen' Area
No full textThis project is a bachelor project at the Bachelor of Humanities and Technology at Roskilde University. The project deals with the topic of using restoration of nature as a technology in response to the issues regarding climate, environment, and biodiversity. The reader will be presented with methods like DPSIR and LFA that analyses the issues regarding the nature restoration of areas in the agricultural landscape of Denmark. Also, a map-analysis of a specific case area will be used to narrow down the issues. The analysis culminates in a design proposal, which describes how we would make a nature restoration project.The project will also cover the political issues regarding nature restoration and will describe how conservation projects develop, with the area in ‘Tempelkrog Nor’ as its focal point
Packaging- and food waste in Denmark
No full textThis report examines the possibility of implementing circular economy and cleaner production in Denmark with a focus on businesses and supermarkets in general. It is concluded in the report through analysis of data from various sources, that 970000 tons of packaging were thrown out in Denmark pro anno, which is the equivalent of 167kg packaging per capita. By reducing the demand for packaging, it can result in a reduction of up to 700-1200 GWh energy per year. At the same time, it is concluded that 1/3 of all produced food ends up as food waste which is the equivalent of 1.6 Gt whereas 1.3 Gt are directly edible. In Denmark there is a potential for 716.000 tons of food waste to be reduced yearly. In this report, a survey has been conducted with 543 respondents, where 74% identify as women. The survey shows that there is a lack of information regarding circular economy. 86% of the respondents know that food waste is a problem, 89% would let their food go over the best before date and approximately 75% would pay more for sustainable packaging alternatives. Through Design Science Research Cycles and Hevner’s three cycle model, a design solution has been formulated. A poster has been designed which tries to put emphasis on the need to implement circular economy and cleaner production in businesses to reduce packaging- and food waste. The discussion in this report argues that the implementation of regulation and requirements for business to use circular economy and cleaner production is the way forward. Supermarkets should follow Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s three guidelines and therefore design out waste, reduce the amount of waste generation and try keeping the products in the material loop for as long as possibl
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