Search for dissertations about: "political ecology"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the words political ecology.

  2. 21. Pastoralists and the Environmental State : A study of ecological resettlement in Inner Mongolia, China

    Author : Qian Zhang; Bo Malmberg; Andrew Byerley; Richard Black; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmentalisation; political ecology; grassland degradation; migration decision-making; pastoralism; environmental migration; environmental governance; China; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

    Abstract : China's quest for sustainable development has given birth to a set of contested ‘ecological construction’ programmes. Focusing on ‘ecological resettlement’, a type of policy measure in a programme for restoring degraded grasslands, this thesis sets out a critical analysis in opposition to the dominant technical and managerial approaches to understanding environmentalisation. READ MORE

  4. 22. Fair Enough? : Ecologically Unequal Exchange, International Trade, and Environmental Justice

    Author : Martin Oulu; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Capitalism; ecologically unequal exchange; environmental justice; ecomodernism; Global South; Global North; international trade; LCA; neoliberalism; political ecology; postcolonial; socio-metabolism; sustainability; science; world-system;

    Abstract : The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral global South to feed industrial processes and capital accumulation in the core North. This situation, it is argued, imperils the development of the South. READ MORE

  5. 23. EXPANDED CHOREOGRAPHY : Shifting the agency of movement in The Artificial Nature Project and 69 positions

    Author : Ingvartsen Mette; Maria Lind; Bojana Cvejic; Adrian Heathfield; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; material agency; vibrant matter; sensorial participation; sensorial problems; immersive stage environments; color perception; nonhuman choreography; actants; the Anthropocene; non-subjective performativity; ecology; catastrophe; technological extensions of the body; the triple image; animate inanimate; expression; action; production of affect; evaporation; dissolution and dispersion; poetics; expanded choreography; Sexuality; sexual liberation; the performance history of the 1960s; protest and politics; ‘language choreography’; orality; storytelling; pornography; affect and economy; expression and liberty; immaterial labor; self-experimentation; dance; ‘soft choreography ; social choreography; Koreografi; Dans; Konstnärlig forskning; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts; material agency; vibrant matter; sensorial participation; sensorial problems; immersive stage environments; color perception; nonhuman choreography; actants; the Anthropocene; non-subjective performativity; ecology; catastrophe; technological extensions of the body; the triple image; animate inanimate; expression; action; production of affect; evaporation; dissolution and dispersion; poetics; expanded choreography; Sexuality; sexual liberation; the performance history of the 1960s; protest and politics; ‘language choreography’; orality; storytelling; pornography; affect and economy; expression and liberty; immaterial labor; self-experimentation; dance; ‘soft choreography ; social choreography;

    Abstract : Through two books and a series of video documentations of live performances Mette Ingvartsen makes choreography into a territory of physical, artistic and social experimentation. The Artificial Nature Series focusses on how relations between human and non-human agency can be explored and reconfigured through choreography. READ MORE

  6. 24. Ecologies of Practices and Thinking

    Author : Elke Marhöfer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; new materialism; film; image; matter; nonhuman; more-than-human; other-than-human; not-so-human; ecology; agriculture; otherness; storytelling; enunciation; post-context; post-history; animism; colonialism; becoming with; seeing together; lines of flight; modes; animals; plants; things; territories; multiplicities; chaos; expressive continuum; rerational aesthetics; radical empiricism; Baruch Spinoza; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; Isabelle Stengers; Donna Haraway; Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; Brian Massumi; Danièle Huillet; Jean Marie Straub;

    Abstract : How does a new materialist film practice look? To approach this question the practice-led material driven research explores dynamic ecological relations and processes of thinking and practicing. It employs an animist methodology which allows it to relate to the nonhuman as an active participant, rather than a passive object of inquiry. READ MORE

  7. 25. Land use dynamics in the face of population increase. A study in the districts of Gatsibo and Nyagatare, Eastern Province, Rwanda

    Author : Theophile NIYONZIMA; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; land use dynamics; land cover changes; population increase; cropping; livestock; political ecology; Rwanda;

    Abstract : This thesis is about land use dynamics in areas undergoing population increase. The study was undertaken to clarify how the increasing population interacted with their physical environment through farming in Eastern Province, Rwanda. READ MORE