Search for dissertations about: "scientific realism environment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the words scientific realism environment.

  2. 1. Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors

    Author : Mikael Klintman; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecology; critical realism; electricity; environment; epistemology; green identity; greening; meta-theory; nature; ontology; social science; public participation; waste; windpower; sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The book has two interrelated objectives. One objective is meta-theoretical and concerns the exploration of theoretical debates connected to issues of studying society and environmental problems; another objective is empirical/analytical, referring to the analysis of "green" public participation in the electricity and waste sectors in Sweden, and partly in the Netherlands as well as the UK. READ MORE

  4. 2. Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)

    Author : Malin Arnell; Anna Koch; Hanna Hallgren; Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; duration space-time-language matter ; knowledge production tacit; embodied; experiential ; performance art body art; live art; happenings ; choreography diffractive methods and techniques ; performativity human and non-human agentiality ; embodiment vulnerability; intimacy; force; power ; participation mutual co-constitutiveness ; invitation contractual engagement and accountability ; environment void; fullness ; embodied affinities human and more-than-human ; orientation; posthumanities; agential realism; feminism; artistic research; expositional strategies; enactment re-enactments ; live dissertation through live act ion s ; documentation affective; embodied ; Hannah Arendt; Karen Barad; Gina Pane; YES! Association Föreningen JA!; Duration; Koreografi; Kunskapsproduktion; Performativ konst; Förkroppsligande; Delaktighet; Invitation; Konstnärlig forskning...; Performativa och mediala praktiker; Performative and media based practices; duration space-time-language matter ; knowledge production tacit; embodied; experiential ; performance art body art; live art; happenings ; choreography diffractive methods and techniques ; performativity human and non-human agentiality ; embodiment vulnerability; intimacy; force; power ; participation mutual co-constitutiveness ; invitation contractual engagement and accountability ; environment void; fullness ; embodied affinities human and more-than-human ; orientation; posthumanities; agential realism; feminism; artistic research; expositional strategies; enactment re-enactments ; live dissertation through live act ion s ; documentation affective; embodied ; Hannah Arendt; Karen Barad; Gina Pane; YES! Association Föreningen JA!;

    Abstract : If we are being-of-the-world, how can we ever avoid participation? From this question Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_ action) unfolds. It invites to engage in an ongoing continuum of entanglements, where the moment of connection is unavoidable. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Cacophony of Voices : A Neoclassical Realist study of United States Strategy toward Central Asia and Southern Caucasus 1991–2006

    Author : Björn Ottosson; Jan Hallenberg; Adrian Hyde-Price; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international relations; foreign policy; strategy; national security; U.S. history; modern history; Caucasus; Caspian; Central Asia; realism; constructivism; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : U.S. strategy toward Southern Caucasus and Central Asia has not been studied sufficiently. READ MORE

  6. 4. A Realist Stable Peace : Power, Threat and the Development of a Shared Norwegian-Swedish Democratic Security Identity 1905-1940

    Author : Magnus Ericson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political and administrative sciences; theory; International Relations; Scandinavia; History; Realism; Stable Peace; Democratic Peace; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : This study concerns the development of Stable Peace between states in the modern anarchical international system. As a starting point for the inquiry the author argues that the prevalence of this type of interstate relationships—characterized by the mutual expectations that neither military violence nor threats thereof will be employed—may be seen as a fundamental challenge to the validity of prevailing Realist perpectives on contemporary IR. READ MORE

  7. 5. Dissolving Dualism : A Tripartite Model of Cognition for Religious Truth

    Author : Elena Kalmykova; Eberhard Herrmann; Jonsson Ulf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; truth; religious truth; embodied cognition; dualism; Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; cognitive science; neurophilosophy; model of cognition; theories of truth; language; meaningfulness; meaning; subjective; objective; intersubjective; scientific realism; social constructivism; Wittgenstein; white spaces; agency; gaps in cognition; enacted cognition; extended cognition; embedded cognition; epistemology; philosophy and empirical investigation; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

    Abstract : This investigation can be described as a long journey to a final destination: a truth in religion. We start by considering dualism of the subjective and the objective, the classical model of cognition that underlies notions of truth. Dualistic notions of cognition lead to serious problems, especially for religious truth. READ MORE