Search for dissertations about: "the Anthropocene"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the words the Anthropocene.

  1. 1. The Anthropocene Ocean : Risks and opportunities for global sustainability

    Author : Jean-Baptiste Jouffray; Magnus Nyström; Henrik Österblom; Beatrice Crona; Albert Norström; Douglas McCauley; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Anthropocene; Coral reef; Finance; Globalisation; Ocean; Resilience; Seafood; Social-ecological system; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity; Transnational corporation; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : Humans have become a dominant force of planetary change. This epoch, referred to as the Anthropocene, implies profound alterations to the Earth’s marine and terrestrial ecosystems upon which so many people depend. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Northward Course of the Anthropocene : Transformation, Temporality and Telecoupling in a Time of Environmental Crisis

    Author : Eric Paglia; Sverker Sörlin; Nina Wormbs; Charles Parker; John McNeill; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anthropocene; Arctic; Fernand Braudel; environmental and climate crisis; environmental history; expertise; polar geopolitics; securitization; Svalbard; telecoupling; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

    Abstract : The Arctic—warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet—is a source of striking imagery of amplified environmental change in our time, and has come to serve as a spatial setting for climate crisis discourse. The recent alterations in the Arctic environment have also been perceived by some observers as an opportunity to expand economic exploitation. READ MORE

  3. 3. 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

  4. 4. Atmospheric and geological entanglements : north american ecopoetry and the anthropocene

    Author : Nuno Marques; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Daniel Andersson; Jonathan Skinner; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecopoetry; ecopoetics; North American ecopoetry; form in poetry; lament; mourning; song; sound; atmosphere; air; geology; Anthropocene; entanglements; community-making; environmental justice; environmental humanities; ecocriticism; new materialisms.; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Atmospheric and Geological Entanglements is a study of contemporary North American ecopoetry, a poetry which is characterized by a negotiation or subversion of established cultural representations of nature, and by a re-deployment of poetic forms such as lyrical poetry, pastoral and elegy. The studied poets experiment with form and question well-established categories such as human and nature, instead emphasizing connections between the human, other organisms, and inorganic matter. READ MORE

  5. 5. The Transformative Imagination : Re-imagining the world towards sustainability

    Author : Diego Galafassi; Victor Galaz; Tim Daw; Karen O'Brien; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ways of knowing; transformations; complexity; futures; practice; transdisciplinarity; creativity; art-based; embodied meaning; action-research; science-policy; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : A central task for sustainability science in the Anthropocene is to offer guidance on alternative pathways of change. Even though this search and implementation of pathways towards sustainability is likely to require profound social-ecological transformations, little is yet known about the individual and collective capacities needed to support such transformations. READ MORE