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Research Article
A Study on Rural Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Strategies of College Students in the Context of Shared Prosperity
Lijuan Zhu*
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2024
Pages:
42-51
Received:
8 April 2024
Accepted:
6 May 2024
Published:
10 May 2024
DOI:
10.11648/j.ss.20241303.11
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Abstract: Rural entrepreneurship serves as a concrete manifestation of college students' active engagement in youth-building actions. Vigorously fostering a group of ambitious, dedicated, adaptable, and sustainable rural talents is not only a crucial initiative for advancing "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" but also an effective pathway for promoting the growth and success of university students, enabling them to realize their life values. Additionally, it provides substantial support for the achievement of shared prosperity. Therefore, while meeting the developmental needs of college students, attracting young individuals to actively participate in rural practices and transitioning from being "attracted" to "settling down" is an essential strategy for alleviating employment pressures and addressing the weaknesses in rural development. This study analyzes the challenges and influencing factors in the rural entrepreneurial journey of college students, delving into the behavioral logic and implementation pathways that lead to their engagement. It also proposes corresponding strategies for enhancing the "coupling degree" between college students and rural development, providing recommendations for the latter part of the discourse on college students' rural entrepreneurship. Rural areas should enhance their service capabilities, collaboratively empower and consolidate resources, and strive to provide efficient and high-quality service support for college students engaged in rural innovation and entrepreneurship. A comprehensive support system for college student rural entrepreneurship, consisting of a tripartite collaboration among the government, universities, and rural communities, and encompassing educational guidance, policy support, financial assistance, and service guarantees, should be constructed. This multi-faceted approach will foster a positive atmosphere encouraging college students to actively participate in rural innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives.
Abstract: Rural entrepreneurship serves as a concrete manifestation of college students' active engagement in youth-building actions. Vigorously fostering a group of ambitious, dedicated, adaptable, and sustainable rural talents is not only a crucial initiative for advancing "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" but also an effective pathway for promoting t...
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Research Article
Brazilian-Style Feminicide: Memorialistic Narratives as a Method in Colonial Heritage Data Collection
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2024
Pages:
52-60
Received:
7 May 2024
Accepted:
3 June 2024
Published:
19 June 2024
Abstract: This paper presents the result of partial research that investigates how the colonial heritages present in Brazilian History and their structural reverberations impact the region context of feminicide in the State of Minas Gerais, outlining a Brazilian reality. Considering the existence of concrete difficulties to hear women who suffer feminicide attempts, based on the memorialistic narratives of women who suffered feminicide attempts, such as the lack of security due to death threats to which they are subjected, this sample counts with a number of fifteen women heard in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, appointed by a non-governmental organization that operates in the region, on the combat gender violence. As a data collection technique, it has been chosen the memorialistics narratives because they allow us a more careful way to approach traumatic scenes. In this article, specific, it was analyzed the cases of four of these women with the aim of demonstrate, through the interface between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and decolonial thinkers, that studies the Afro-Latin American feminism, how violence against these women reveals in their bodies (sometimes, Black) the emergence of a territory to be invade, explored, dominated, and annihilated. It is expected to demonstrate, in the cases presented and through the chosen methodology, the effects of the State´s transgeneratinality and impunity on the naturalization of violence and domination.
Abstract: This paper presents the result of partial research that investigates how the colonial heritages present in Brazilian History and their structural reverberations impact the region context of feminicide in the State of Minas Gerais, outlining a Brazilian reality. Considering the existence of concrete difficulties to hear women who suffer feminicide a...
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Research Article
Political Parties: Builders and Destroyers of Ghana’s Drive to Democratic Consolidation
Desmond Tweneboah-Koduah
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2024
Pages:
61-73
Received:
6 May 2024
Accepted:
6 June 2024
Published:
27 June 2024
Abstract: Despite a very checkered political history, Ghana’s Fourth Republic has so far performed relatively better, surviving through eight election cycles. Though political parties are objects of massive supports in Ghana’s drive to democratic consolidation, nevertheless, questions have been raised about the ways in which parties operate in practice. Through the use of concurrent mixed methods design, the study examined the view that Ghanaian political parties are not agents of democracy due to some irresponsible and self-interested actions they usually pursue. The study found that Ghana has made significant progress towards democratic consolidation partly because political parties actively perform the functions of voter mobilization and forming the government. However, despite the strong support for multiparty democracy from Ghanaians, their hopes and expectations have proved illusionary due to persistent poverty and socio-economic inequalities. This has the potential to disempower the poor majority and make democracy the property of few wealthy politicians. Additionally, policy discontinuity and the activities of political vigilantism championed by political parties were identified as notable threats to Ghana’s democratic gains. The study recommended that both the intrinsic and instrumentalist approaches to politics are critical for democratic consolidation and maturity in Ghana.
Abstract: Despite a very checkered political history, Ghana’s Fourth Republic has so far performed relatively better, surviving through eight election cycles. Though political parties are objects of massive supports in Ghana’s drive to democratic consolidation, nevertheless, questions have been raised about the ways in which parties operate in practice. Thro...
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Research Article
The Global Care Chain: Analyzing the Increasing Feminization of Care Work Across Borders
Alasaly Shahd*
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2024
Pages:
74-80
Received:
22 April 2024
Accepted:
10 May 2024
Published:
27 June 2024
Abstract: With the rise in globalization, there has been an increase in migration, specifically labor migration. Women migrating to perform care labor has exploded after women formally entered the global labor market. Although many female migrants are independently traveling as the primary breadwinners of their households, they remain underappreciated, invisible, under-waged, and exploited. Upon relocating from countries in the global south to conduct care work in more affluent nations or communities, they leave their dependents behind, ultimately in the care of another female, typically a family member, or yet another more impoverished woman. At this point, the global care chain is not a single, linear chain but rather an intersecting one composed of numerous chains that multiple women become a part of. Therefore these intersections between the public and private, the paid and unpaid, and the productive and reproductive forms of care work are present. In addition, although globalization and neoliberal policy have benefited some women globally, it has dramatically made women who migrate for global care work and labor suffer. When women migrate, the global care chain often becomes an entire phenomenon through which many things intersect. On the one hand, we witness capitalism, feminization of migration, globalization, and neoliberalism interacting while also intersecting with care, emotional work, and gender relations. The goal of this paper is to examine and connect the intersectional effects on women by examining global care work in Asia and Latin America. In addition, we ask the following questions: How can we create change so that women's work is no longer invisible? How can we build a society where individuals are esteemed not just on monetized work but also on reproductive work? Will reproductive labor ever be considered labor? And finally, we will propose some preliminary solutions to begin framing steps forward.
Abstract: With the rise in globalization, there has been an increase in migration, specifically labor migration. Women migrating to perform care labor has exploded after women formally entered the global labor market. Although many female migrants are independently traveling as the primary breadwinners of their households, they remain underappreciated, invis...
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