Sökning: "Solastalgia"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade ordet Solastalgia.

1. 1. Bidding Farewell to the Ancient City of Ashur: A Qualitative Case Study of the Social and Cultural Impacts of the Makhoul Dam in Iraq

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Alice Abbas; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Makhoul Dam; Climate Change Mitigation in Iraq; Solastalgia; Place attachment; Community Participation Theory; Semi-structured Interviews; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This qualitative case study explores through semi-structured Interviews the social and cultural impacts of the Makhoul Dam, planned as part of Iraq’s climate change mitigation work. It was based on the research question: How do local individuals experience the Makhoul Dam’s impact on their home environments including the surrounding archaeological sites? And supported by the two operational questions: How are individuals in the dam-affected areas wellbeing and identity interlinked to their native areas including the surrounding archaeological sites? and How does the Makhoul Dam including its decision making process affect individuals in the dam-affected areas’ wellbeing and identity? By using Albrecht's theory of solastalgia, the theory of place attachment, where a broader definition of the theory was applied and community participation theory, eight sub-themes were identified under three main themes; “Our Area”, Who’s decision? and Wellbeing and identity. LÄS MER

3. 2. Staying, Sane, on a Planet Dying Fast : Art and Eco-Psychology in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Sam Hammarberg; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Ecocriticism; mental health; solastalgia; eco-PTSD; ecological uncanny; Vonnegut;

   Sammanfattning : This essay analyzes Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions (1973) in relation to eco-psychology. First, Dwayne Hoover is diagnosed with solastalgia; second, the narrator is shown to suffer from ecological PTSD; and, lastly, the novel is considered in light of the ecological uncanny and the ecological homecoming narrative. LÄS MER

4. 3. Snart fanns det ju ingenstans att ta vägen : En ekokritisk undersökning av landskap och sorg i Birgitta Lillpers Om du fick tänka dig ett hem (2010)

   Master-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Litteraturvetenskap

   Författare :Hedenäs Malin; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Birgitta Lillpers; affective ecocriticism; climate grief; ecological grief; solastalgia; Birgitta Lillpers; Om du fick tänka dig ett hem; affektiv ekokritik; klimatsorg; ekologisk sorg; solastalgi;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis called “Soon there was nowhere to go”, I investigate how relations between environments, landscapes and emotions are shaped in Birgitta Lillpers’ novel Om du fick tänka dig ett hem (If you could think of a home) (2010). I do this by looking at how landscapes are expressed in the novel and how the human bodies who live in this landscapes answers to their surroundings. LÄS MER