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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade ordet wilderness.
16. Planning Practices of Greening : Challenges for Public Urban Green Space
Sammanfattning : Public urban green spaces are crucial parts of cities due to the many connections existing between urban greenery and well-being. Additionally, public urban green space represents a wide range of spatial concepts, such as parks, urban forests, commons, in-between-spaces, and gardens. LÄS MER
17. Käännösstrategiat ja diskurssit : analyysi 1600–1800-lukujen ranskalaisista Lapin-kuvauksista ja niiden moderneista suomennoksista
Sammanfattning : In my dissertation, I study the ways discourses of Finnishness and Saminess are being construed in three French travel depictions dating from 17th to 19th century and their Finnish translations dating from the late 20th century. Firstly, I examine the discursive image of Lapland in the French source texts and the Finnish target texts. LÄS MER
18. Meanwhile, in Aysén-Patagonia : exploring discursive transformations on environment and development in a remote periphery
Sammanfattning : Patagonia, is an imaginary territory that comprises the south of Chile and Argentina. Historically, Patagonia has captivated an image of far-off lands and wilderness, embedded in a remote and peripheral context, which in turn has often been idealized as ‘pristine’. LÄS MER
19. Nature Writing of the Anthropocene
Sammanfattning : The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writers approach their genre. LÄS MER
20. Naturliga medborgare : Friluftsliv och medborgarfostran i scoutrörelsen och Unga Örnar 1925-1960
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis has been to examine outdoor activities and camping, framed within the Scandinavian notion of friluftsliv, as methods for promoting citizenship in two Swedish youth organisations: the Scout movement and Unga Örnar (“Young Eagles”). What knowledge and abilities characterised ideal citizenship; how was instruction in citzenship for children conducted and more specifically, how were nature and friluftsliv employed as resources to accomplish training for citizens? The results of this study show that friluftsliv as an educational method in these organisations, most notably in the Scout organisations, reflected ideas about active citizenship understood as civic, everyday practice. LÄS MER