Search for dissertations about: "Animal history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 138 swedish dissertations containing the words Animal history.

2. 1. Making Reindeer : The Negotiation of an Arctic Animal in Modern Swedish Sápmi, 1920-2020

   Author : Corinna Röver; Sverker Sörlin; Dag Avango; Per Axelsson; Annika Nilsson; David G. Anderson; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Animal history; Reindeer; Sápmi; Arctic humanities; Chernobyl; Slow Food Sápmi; Arctic resources; Reindeer husbandry; Rationalization; Djurhistoria; Renar; Sápmi; Tjernobyl; Arktisk humaniora; Slow Food Sápmi; Renskötsel; Rennäring; Rationalisering; Arktiska resurser; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

   Abstract : The Arctic has long been perceived as a static, timeless place of shielded wilderness. This perception extended to the reindeer as both part of the Arctic environment and of traditional Indigenous livelihoods. READ MORE

4. 2. Problem Animals : A Critical Genealogy of Animal Cruelty and Animal Welfare in Swedish Politics 1844–1944

   Author : Per-Anders Svärd; Ludvig Beckman; Kristina Boréus; Marcel Wissenburg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; animal rights; animal welfare; animal protection; animal cruelty; animal politics; human-animal studies; critical animal studies; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Despite growing academic interest in the human–animal relationship, little research has been directed toward the political regulation of animal treatment. Even less attention has been accorded to the emergence of the long dominant paradigm in this policy area, namely, the ideology of animal welfare. READ MORE

5. 3. Morality Beyond Humanity : Schopenhauer, Grysanowski, and Schweitzer on Animal Ethics

   Author : Monica Libell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Djurs etologi och psykologi; Animal ethology and psychology; Morallära; Moral science; Vetenskapshistoria; History of science; history of medicine; antivivisection; Schweitzer; Grysanowski; Schopenhauer; Germany; animal rights; animal ethics; animal welfare;

   Abstract : The study examines the character and development of the animal ethical ideas of three German thinkers: Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernst Grysanowski, and Albert Schweitzer. By situating them in their cultural and intellectual context, the study explores the differing meanings of their ethical views of animals and seeks to answer the question of how their ideas can be explained historically. READ MORE

6. 4. Stone Age Companions: Humans and animals in hunter-gatherer burials in north-eastern Europe

   Author : Aija Macane; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; human–animal relationships; relational ontologies; companionship perspective; burial archaeology; mortuary practices; zooarchaeology; hunter-gatherers; Stone Age; Mesolithic; Neolithic; north-eastern Europe; southern Sweden; Latvia; central European Russia;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the relationships between humans and animals in their mutual environment and how these relationships were expressed in the burial practices of northern foragers. The empirical research material consists of animal remains, particularly animal tooth pendants, deposited in graves at Zvejnieki (Latvia), Skateholm I and II (Sweden) and Sakhtysh II and IIa (Russia) cemeteries. READ MORE

7. 5. Exporting agrarian expertise : development aid at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and its predecessors, 1950–2009

   Author : Karl Bruno; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : Agrarian expertise has been employed in the context of Swedish development aid since the 1950s. Throughout this time, the Swedish institutions of higher agrarian education—the Agricultural College, the College of Forestry, and the Veterinary College, in 1977 merged to form the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences—have played important roles. READ MORE