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    POURQUOI LES FEMMES, MALGRÉ LEURS DIFFÉRENCES, SE RETROUVENT-ELLES À PORTER LES MAUX DU MONDE?
    (2024-11-04) Mutoni, Murielle; Sondarjee, Maika
    Mon étude porte sur la responsabilité et la culpabilité ressenties par les femmes face aux difficultés qu’elles et leurs proches rencontrent, même pour des évènements hors de leur contrôle. Ces sentiments sont souvent exacerbés par des normes sociales et religieuses patriarcales qui imposent aux femmes des rôles inaccessibles. Ma question de recherche est donc : Pourquoi les femmes, malgré leurs différences, se retrouvent-elles à porter les maux du monde ? L’hypothèse centrale est que la culpabilité féminine est non seulement un sentiment personnel, mais aussi une construction sociale et religieuse façonnée par les interprétations patriarcales des textes sacrés, notamment dans la religion catholique. Cette analyse portera sur deux grands volets : d’une part, l’idéal religieux que les femmes devraient atteindre, et d’autre part, la pression sociale religieuse qui renforce ce sentiment de culpabilité. La religion catholique sera étudiée en tant qu’exemple d’institution influente, où les rôles de genre sont souvent ancrés dans une hiérarchie patriarcale. Ce mémoire analysera également comment les interprétations des textes religieux dictent les comportements et justifient les inégalités de genre, et examinera si ces dynamiques peuvent évoluer.
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    The im/mobilities of women: Abortion travel from Texas to other states in the U.S.
    (2024-10-29) Paruzel, Natalie; Sethna, Christabelle
    Following the implementation of Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) on 1 September 2021 in Texas, a restrictive abortion law that banned all abortions after six weeks of gestation except to save the pregnant woman’s life, women seeking abortions looked to travel out of state to access abortion services. Using an abortion im/mobility theoretical framework and a feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA), this Major Research Project (MRP) demonstrates the negative impacts of SB 8 on women’s access to abortion services and their travel or lack of travel in the six months following its implementation. A feminist CDA was conducted on 23 articles published by The Texas Tribune during this period. SB 8 had a negative impact on women in Texas, abortion providers inside and outside Texas, pro-choice organizations, and more. In the first three months after the implementation of SB 8, some women in Texas were able to travel out of state, while others could not. Between the fourth and sixth months after the implementation of SB 8, the adverse effects of SB 8 were being felt by women and abortion providers outside Texas. This MRP demonstrates how SB 8 had a negative impact on women’s abortion im/mobilities.
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    Weather Index-based Insurance as an Effective and Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi
    (2023) Sivel, Rebecca May; Ramisch, Joshua
    The impacts of climate change pose a significant threat to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in developing countries. This is especially true in rural Malawi where farmers rely on rainfed crops as their major source of income. To help low income farmers respond to climate change, development agencies and international financial institutions have proposed a range of agricultural insurance products. While there are numerous insurance strategies, in recent years, weather index-based insurance has become an increasingly attractive option due to low-administration costs and reduction of moral hazard. This paper pulls from empirical evidence of existing weather index-based insurance research along with primary data collected through a case study from Malawi to explore whether or not weather index-based insurance is an effective and sustainable climate change adaptation strategy for women and men smallholder farmers in Malawi. This is done by examining its enrollment rates and scalability, its effectiveness in meeting the needs of women and men smallholder farmers, and if the weather 3 index-based insurance coverage is leading to improved agricultural practises and use of improved inputs and technologies. This paper finds that a serious and extensive investment into a gender responsive, well designed, robust but flexible weather index-based insurance product, in an enabling environment, could be a much needed bridge to sustainable climate change resilience for smallholder men and women farmers in Malawi.
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    Èkó ò ní bàjé! (“Lagos must not spoil”) The Socio-Environmental Costs of Land Reclamation in Lagos, Nigeria: A Case Study on Eko Atlantic City & Neighbouring Coastline Communities
    (2023) Bolarinwa, Bilquis Olayinka; Huggins, Christopher
    It is thought that coastal land reclamation can lead to greater social disparities in coastal cities already under urban stress, especially in the Global South. The practice is a major urban planning feature in Global South cities, many of which are engaging in urban restructuring under neoliberal and entrepreneurial principles. Informal coastal settlements in these cities are especially susceptible to environmental impacts and social disruption due to coastal land reclamation (UN-Habitat, 2014), as they usually lack physical, political, financial and social resources to recover from environmental disasters. This Major Research Paper (MRP), through the conceptual lens of rights to the city and resilience, conducts a case study on Eko Atlantic City (E.A.C) and neighbouring informal coastline communities in Lagos, Nigeria, to understand the challenges they may face under this socio-political context. This research uses secondary literature, some containing interviews with identified community members, to determine these complications. The analysis found that higher flooding incidences in the studied coastline communities strongly correlate to E.A. C’s construction. Consequently, existing livelihoods and livelihood opportunities there were negatively impacted by the increased floods. The lack of social safety nets to protect local people from such impacts illuminates the dangers of reclamation projects, particularly under neoliberal urbanism which favours elite interests. These findings present an opportunity for further discussion on participation and resilience— in its truest sense— concerning planning, disaster risk reduction, and city transformation in the Global South.
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    Student Migration from Kerala, India to Destinations in the Global North: Analysis and Policy Implications
    (2023) Joseph, Mary Lucia; Munro, Lauchlan T.
    The state of Kerala in India is known for its model of development and attainment of high human development indicators including the highest literacy rate in India. Yet, Kerala is overwhelmed by high unemployment and the outmigration of its residents for opportunities abroad. The popular route of migration from Kerala to the countries of the Persian Gulf has contributed immensely to the financial well-being of the state through remittances for decades. However, in recent years, a decline in the trend of Gulf migration and an increase in the trend of migration of youth to countries of the global north as students is observed in Kerala. This paper analyzed the underlying reasons behind the increased levels of student migration and some of its resulting social and economic impacts on Kerala using a theoretical framework that combines hypotheses based on the push and pull models of migration. The study demonstrates that the decision to migrate may not always be rational, due to the influence of fluctuating factors that transform over time. Meanwhile, the analysis of the currently observable factors fundamentally identifies this wave of migration as a movement of people toward opportunity and a better standard of living compared to what is available in Kerala. Additionally, the perception and knowledge of the conditions in the origin area and destination areas contribute heavily to migration decision-making. In the meantime, concerns about an ageing population, and further economic stagnation reverberates in Kerala as it is losing its young population. Nevertheless, uncertain economic conditions at destination countries also do not rule out the small possibility of a return migration of this stream back to Kerala.
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    Voluntary Sustainability Standards and the Fashion Industry: Opportunities and Challenges for Building a Circular Textile Economy
    (2023) Klassen, Kiana; McCarney, Geoffrey Ross
    The race to the bottom that has enabled the rise of fast fashion is becoming increasingly intensified and, due to climate change and pollution, the environmental impacts of the industry are becoming more catastrophic. One sustainability solution that is rapidly growing in popularity across the industry is the Circular Economy (CE), due to its promise to deliver positive social, environmental and economic sustainability outcomes. Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are widely used across many different industries for a variety of development objectives, and have started being used to facilitate the movement towards circularity. VSS is a prominent regulatory mechanism in the fashion industry, and thus exploring the alignment of VSS with – and hence its potential to effectively implement – the CE will help illuminate the value of both as sustainability approaches to addressing the enormous detrimental impact of fast fashion. This paper makes a unique contribution to the literature on CE in the fashion industry by taking both a conceptual and applied approach to assessing the congruence between VSS and CE, drawing from various bodies of literature and performing expert interviews. This research aims to serve as a foundation for research on sustainability in the textile industry, and a resource for decision-makers, corporations and policy makers looking to promote a circular textile economy. Ultimately, the goal is to promote sustainable development and provide tangible outcomes towards these objectives.
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    Linking Circularity and Seed Sovereignty: Agriculture and Food Systems Reimagined
    (2022) Lachance, Judith; McCarney, Geoffrey Ross
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    THE ROLE OF INCUBATORS IN PROMOTING YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN KENYA
    (2021) Konyango, Hellen; Betcherman, Gordon
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