Search for dissertations about: "nature - culture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 196 swedish dissertations containing the words nature - culture.

  2. 1. Shapeshifting Nature : Ambivalent Ways of Seeing the Non-Human World within Swedish National Park Tourism and its Visual Culture

    Author : Emelie Fälton; Sofie Storbjörk; Johan Hedrén; Keri Cronin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nature-Based Tourism; Discourse Analysis; Nature Culture; Representation; Problematization; Naturturism; Diskursanalys; Natur kultur; Representation; Problematisering;

    Abstract : National parks are often assigned a self-identical role as protectors of valuable pieces of the non-human world, generally depicted as nature. Besides, many parks are also popular tourism destinations that attract millions of tourists each year. National park tourism and its visual culture impact how people relate to and see the non-human world. READ MORE

  4. 2. Nature, culture, rights : exploring space for indigenous agency in protected area discourses

    Author : Elsa Reimerson; Camilla Sandström; Ulf Mörkenstam; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Protected areas; conservation; biological diversity; heritage; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous rights; Sami; discourse; postcolonial theory; participation; agency; Skyddade områden; naturvård; biologisk mångfald; världsarv; urfolk; urfolksrättigheter; samer; diskurs; postkolonial teori; deltagande; handlingsutrymme; statskunskap; political science;

    Abstract : There is considerable geographical overlap between areas set aside for nature conservation or protection and Indigenous peoples’ lands, and the social, economic, and political consequences of protected areas have often been extensive for Indigenous peoples. Discourses of conservation converge with discourses of Indigenous peoples, and both carry a legacy of colonial constructs and relationships. READ MORE

  5. 3. Rethinking civilisation in a European feminist context: History, nature, women in Elin Wägner's Väckarklocka

    Author : Katarina Leppänen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Elin Wägner; Rosa Mayreder; Mathilde Vaerting; Women s Organisation for World Order; Johann Jakob Bachofen; feminism; matriarchy; feminist essentialism; anti-essentialism; 1920s; 1930s; critique of civilisation; ecological feminism; ecofeminism; nature; culture;

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  6. 4. Natives and their nature : essays on marine mammal conservation, fishing and the anthropology of Iceland

    Author : Niels Einarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iceland; fishing; culture; environmentalism; marine mammals; environmental perceptions; fisheries policy; Ethnology; Etnologi;

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  7. 5. Encounters Between Music and Nature : A Productive and Transversal Approach to Contemporary Music Analysis

    Author : Elin Kanhov; Johanna Ethnersson Pontara; Jacob Derkert; Frida Beckman; Edward Campbell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; contemporary Western art music; nature; Deleuze and Guattari; posthumanism; new materialism; ecomusicology; music analysis; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis examines encounters between music and nature through a productive and transversal approach to music analysis with examples from the contemporary Western art music repertoire. In three analytical chapters, I study how contemporary music potentially reframes the positions and relations between music, humans and nature by engaging with transversal concepts from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s thinking and drawing upon Judy Lochhead’s approach to productive music analysis. READ MORE