Sökning: "environmentalism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet environmentalism.

  1. 1. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy

    Författare :Marinette Grimbeek; Maria Holmgren Troy; Magnus Ullén; Sylvia Mayer; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Margaret Atwood; MaddAddam Trilogy; environmentalism; apocalypse; satire; celebrity activism; metalepsis; commodity aesthetics; storytelling; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Outdoor Recreation and Environmentalism : Social and Spatial Perspectives

    Författare :Daniel Wolf-Watz; Klas Sandell; Tom Mels; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography;

    Sammanfattning : Outdoor recreation and environmentalism are interlinked phenomena. Historically, they have clear parallels; both emerged at the dawn of the last century, drew inspiration from the Romantic Movement, and were reactions against elements in the modern industrialized and urbanized society. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens

    Författare :María Florencia Langa; Tora Holmberg; Stefan Bargheer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; urban gardening and agriculture; morality; valuations; practice; urban nature; environmentalism;

    Sammanfattning : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates

    Författare :Pernilla Ouis; Humanekologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecological modernization; environmentalism; phenomenology; Bedouin identity; camel pastoralism; dependency; theories of value; unequal exchange; extractive economy; oil; pearls; social constructionism; Islam; modernization; United Arab Emirates; Human Ecology; glocalization; reflexivity.; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Corporatist Environmentalism and Industrial Policy : The Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry and the 1969 Environment Protection Act

    Författare :Lars Karlsson; Lars Magnusson; Peter Hedberg; Magnus Lindmark; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Industrial policy; special interests; interest group theory; corporatism; environmental policy; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

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