Search for dissertations about: "environmental imaginary"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words environmental imaginary.

  2. 1. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary

    Author : Ryan Palmer; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Michael Lundblad; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecocriticism; ecofiction; re-enchantment; wonder; disenchantment; noir; environmental ethics; climate change; affect; environmental justice; Thomas Pynchon; Lydia Millet; Karen Tei Yamashita; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. READ MORE

  4. 2. Excessive Seas : Waste Ecologies of Eutrophication

    Author : Jesse Peterson; Sabine Höhler; Kate Rigby; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; algal bloom; Baltic Sea; cultural eutrophication; dead zone; waste ecology; environmental degradation; environmental humanities; critical ocean studies; environmental imaginary; environmental value; more-than- human; textual analysis; visual analysis; storytelling; algblomning; Östersjön; kulturell övergödning; bottendöd; avfallsekologi; miljöförstöring; miljövetenskap; kritiska havsstudier; miljömyndighet; miljövärde; mer-än-mänsklig; textanalys; visuell analys; berättande; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : This dissertation researches how perspectives in western industrial societies communicate about and give meaning to environmental degradation through case studies on the causes and effects of cultural eutrophication—namely nutrient pollution, algal blooms, and dead zones—in the Baltic Sea. Utilizing this approach, this dissertation addresses the ecological problems of cultural eutrophication in marine ecosystems by exposing normative claims humans make about the Baltic Sea and its contents as well as detailing how seas that exceed human expectations may offer insights into negotiating differing perspectives, discrepancies in power, and ways of being among humans and non-humans in marine environments. READ MORE

  5. 3. Leaving dry land: Water, heritage and imaginary agency

    Author : Moniek Driesse; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; water critical heritage design research cartographic reason affective methodology imaginary agency Mexico City Gothenburg;

    Abstract : This doctoral dissertation explores the interplay between water, heritage and the agency of the imagination. Instead of seeking how to map subjects or heritage, the research focuses on the ways in which mapping and the cartographic gaze have produced subjects in specific categories. READ MORE

  6. 4. Multiple Imaginaries of the Fossil Fuel Free Future : Biogas and Electricity in Swedish Urban Transport

    Author : Amelia Mutter; Harald Rohracher; Jane Summerton; Magdalena Kuchler; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; sociotechnical imaginaries; biogas; electric vehicles; obduracy; sociotechnical change; urban transport; sociotekniska föreställningar; biogas; elfordon; tröghet; sociotekniska förändring; stadstrafik;

    Abstract : I kölvattnet av klimatkrisen har det blivit allt tydligare att det fossilbaserade transportsystemet måste genomgå en global omvandling. Många alternativ för förnyelsebara drivmedel har föreslagits, alla omgivna av föreställningar om hur dessa tekniker kommer att bidra till en bättre framtid. READ MORE

  7. 5. What is going on out there? - What does it mean for children's experiences when the kindergarten is moving their everyday activities into the nature - landscapes and its places

    Author : Kari-Anne Jørgensen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Learning; kindergarten; nature; experiences; play; landscapes;

    Abstract : How we understand the practice of learning in nature-landscapes and places is relevant to contemporary environmental arenas, both in the context of international agendas and as an agenda for Nordic kindergartens where spending most of their day outdoors is a common practice? In this study, I question the deterministic models for environmental learning and examine what it means for children to be in nature. To do so I made an empirical study focusing on the children’s own experiences by asking the questions: What is going on out there? What does it mean for the children’s experiences when the kindergarten is moving their everyday activities into the nature-landscapes and places? In exploring these questions a critical approach on the educational ideas of this practice is implicated. READ MORE