Outcomes of the summit will be analysed from green and political ecology perspectives, to demonstrate the shallow, tokenistic, and overly anthropocentric approach taken to deal with environmental and poverty issues. This essay concludes that the North uses the Sustainable Development discourse to protect...
Part of the confusion occurs because dialogue is a pervasive concept. Consequently, dialogue has become a word everyone thinks they understand, so self-evident it does not need a definition (Lane2020). Increasingly, concepts such as “participation” or “dialogue” are being considered “buzzwords...
Many of our international students at UBC have come from international schools in their native lands but this does not mean that they have been exposed to a wide array of cultures. Additionally through my teaching on the international program for first year students I have witnessed miscommunication...
In many cases, community participation processes only engage community stakeholders as feedback providers to confirm a pre-determined project design (UNDP, 2014), and are therefore of tokenistic value. For local communities to truly determine the methods and goals of adaptation that build on their ...
And I saw that they were nice, and not mean. I saw it in their movements and in how they talked to me and stuff.” (Penny, 12). The adolescents all shared different variations of how the clinicians were responsive to their needs; whether they needed a carer to be present, to take ...
A commitment to recognising diversity within society that goes beyond the tokenistic ‘food and dance’ events must somehow be incorporated into the identity of a multicultural state. Yet, should this automatically mean the conferment of minority rights? If so, which rights? which groups? who ...
A commitment to recognising diversity within society that goes beyond the tokenistic 'food and dance' events must somehow be incorporated into the identity of a multicultural state. Yet, should this automatically mean the conferment of minority rights? If so, which rights? which groups? who ...