Sökning: "Human geographies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden Human geographies.

  1. 1. The Spatial Turn in the Heritage Field : A case study of the Arctic during the crisis of places.

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Kulturvård

    Författare :Cristian Martín Lanzas; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Human geographies; Arctic; dwelling; Spirit of Place; Phenomenology.;

    Sammanfattning : Modern research on the shared points of natural and cultural heritage has opened new opportunities for the investigation of the dimensions of this natureculture phenomenon. Theo bjective of this study is to develop this subject by analysing the dialogue between the most critical human geographies and the heritage field. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Global Cultures – Critical Zone Observatories of Everyday Objects : (A Global Environmental History of Yogurt)

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Författare :Leni Charbonneau; [2022]
    Nyckelord :yogurt; biofilm; critical zone observatory; microbiopolitics; probiotic; microbial biodiversity; new materialism; OOO;

    Sammanfattning : This study turns to what is for many an everyday item – yogurt – as a critical zone observatory, a synergistic, place-based laboratory which aims to integrate heterogenous representations of planetary phenomena as they are registered at a common surface. Yogurt has an impressive cultural endurance largely derived from its prominence in various paradigms of health. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Framing Emotions: Accounting for Feelings in Human Geography

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Författare :Mumbi Mkandawire; [2019]
    Nyckelord :emotional geography; emotions; feelings; affectual geography; memory; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Researchers, from various academic departments, are increasingly undertaking studies of phenomena by way of practices considered to be within the sub-field of emotional geography. Emotional geographers, in an attempt to imbue research with the intensely subjective experiences of events and spaces, seek to uncover feelings by way of emotions, yet cautiously avoids the non-representational by working through language. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Drilling for time: ice cores and the synchronization of temporalities in glaciology, 1935-1978

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Författare :Erik Isberg; [2018]
    Nyckelord :ice cores; Arctic science; temporalities; Environmental humanities; climate modelling; history of science; Willi Dansgaard; Anthropocene; synchronization; temporal regimes; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Since their emergence in the 1950’s, ice cores have ventured from being scientific objects of concern to a limited number of glaciologists to becoming one of the most iconic representations of anthropogenic climate change. This thesis aims to historicize the way in which ice cores became enrolled into climate discourse, particularly emphasizing the production and representation of temporalities of the global climate that the ice cores made possible. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Re-colonization of Wolves in Sweden – Conflicting Rural Realities

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Författare :Sofia Billebo; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Wolves canis lupus ; human-animal geographies; rural geography; land use narratives; anthropocentric; eco-centric; political ecology; environmental philosophy; rural-urban performativity;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyses the wolf (canis lupus) and human relations in Swedish landscapes. By addressing the change of ideas influencing land use and nature management during the time when the wolf was considered functionally extinct, two parallel realities appear that is shown to be something that the participants in this study relates and recognizes as their reality. LÄS MER