En solidarisk självbild : en postkolonial granskning av svensk biståndsstrategi
(2013) MRSG20 20122Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- The controversy between development studies and postcolonial studies is characterized by a mutually critical approach towards the other field, a disinterest in response and consequently a lack of interaction. The ambivalence that emerges from this non-interactive debate underlines that as long as these academic fields stay separated nothing constructive will appear. From initially analyzing the respective fields’ potential to improve the human right’s concept, this paper’s main focus has become to examine the Swedish governments strategy plan for financial aid as seen from a postcolonial perspective.
By examining issues such as superiority and self-interest the central theories of this paper apply postcolonial critique. Thus it will... (More) - The controversy between development studies and postcolonial studies is characterized by a mutually critical approach towards the other field, a disinterest in response and consequently a lack of interaction. The ambivalence that emerges from this non-interactive debate underlines that as long as these academic fields stay separated nothing constructive will appear. From initially analyzing the respective fields’ potential to improve the human right’s concept, this paper’s main focus has become to examine the Swedish governments strategy plan for financial aid as seen from a postcolonial perspective.
By examining issues such as superiority and self-interest the central theories of this paper apply postcolonial critique. Thus it will demonstrate that the Swedish governments strategy plan has several matters in which this critique is applicable and severe. The intention is to expose these issues and analyse them in a constructive discussion. (Less)
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- author
- Ley, Emma LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MRSG20 20122
- year
- 2013
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Superiority, Self-interest, Strategy, Postcolonialism, Financial aid, Glorification, Human rights, mänskliga rättigheter
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 3358940
- date added to LUP
- 2013-02-26 11:48:34
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:37
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