Search for dissertations about: "wild places"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words wild places.

  2. 1. Wild Enchantments in the Anthropocene : Exploring the Wild in Narratives, Practices and Place in Dark Green Spirituality

    Author : Ive Brissman; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wild enchantments; Anthropocene; ecological self-awareness; negotiating baselines; dark green spirituality; rewilding; the wild mind; wild places; deep time; the eerie; ecological shadows; riddling power; wonder and wounds; making kin; the larger-than-human world;

    Abstract : This thesis is ta study of the intersection between dark green spirituality and the green movement in relation to climate change and ecological crisis, and it explores how some ecologically concerned people try to orientate themselves in facing the challenges and especially the role of spirituality in this context. The study is set in the period 2009–2015, and it is based in fieldwork conducted in Devon and Dartmoor, UK. READ MORE

  4. 2. LIVING WITH PARASITES: AVIAN MALARIA, TELOMERE LENGTH AND LIFE HISTORY TRADE-OFFS

    Author : Asghar Muhammad; MEMEG; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Avian malaria; Plasmodium; qPCR; parasitemia; life history; reproduction; survival; feather growth; MHC; telomere length; heritability; telomere loss; fitness; wild population; Acrocephalus arundinaceus; Delichon urbica;

    Abstract : Haemosporidia is a well-studied group of parasites, which infect mammals, reptiles and birds and use blood sucking vectors for their transmission. By conducting natural population studies and experimental infections, We have been able to detect and quantify Haemosporidia from avian blood to investigate how these pathogens affect their avian hosts. READ MORE

  5. 3. Human Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Polar Regions

    Author : Jorge Hernández; Björn Olsen; Lotta Berg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; ESBL; Antibiotic Resistance; Polar Regions; Wild Birds; Mikrobiologi; Microbiology;

    Abstract : Coincident with human activity in recent decades, human-associated microorganisms have arrived to the Antarctic region, possibly linked to increasing presence of scientific bases and ship-borne tourists. In the Arctic, humans have been present for a very long time, and the few parts of the Arctic without human activities is decreasing with time. READ MORE

  6. 4. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession

    Author : Ida Östenberg; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; world mastery; kings; barbarians; conquest; aerarium; wealth; triumphator; representations; captives; spoils; enargeia; spectators; display; role-playing; processional sequence; self-definition; the other; ritual; performance; Rome; triumphal procession; oikumene.; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia;

    Abstract : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. READ MORE