Sökning: "nonhuman materiality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden nonhuman materiality.

1. 1. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Författare :Jorinde Bosma; [2023]
   Nyckelord :deer; performativity; agential realism; becoming-with; human animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; posthumanism; choreographies; materiality; biopower; Cultural Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. LÄS MER

3. 2. Matter Manifesting Itself : Understanding Nonhuman Agency in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

   Författare :Johanna Koivunen; [2022]
   Nyckelord :ecocriticism; new materialism; agency; materiality; transformation; nonhuman; latin; ancient literature; roman literature;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines transformations of human characters into trees, stones, and water sources in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The current climate crisis is partly the result of a view of nature as a passive object, or inert matter, that humans without consequences can exploit. LÄS MER

4. 3. Home in Hardship : Exploring how United Nations professionals negotiate constructions of home in and between hardship settings

   Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Författare :Alexander Thomas; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Home; mobility; international repeat mobility; actor-network theory; ANT; constructivism; United Nations; hardship;

   Sammanfattning : There is a general recognition within the social sciences that extensive mobility challenges how we perceive the notion of home. With this idea as its starting point, this thesis explores how situations of hardship impact the ways in which mobile professionals negotiate and construct their homes. LÄS MER

5. 4. Actants and Networks in 'Skagboys' – Thatcher, Crime and Mundane Artifacts as Mediators

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Thomas Pedersen; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Skagboys; ANT; Actor-Network Theory; Thatcher; Crime; Heroin; Irvine Welsh; Bruno Latour; Mediator; Trainspotting; Literature; Scotland; Edinburgh; Agency; Detection; Objects in literature;

   Sammanfattning : While Skagboys portrays the descent into heroin addiction of young, working class Scots during the Thatcher era, shifting the analysis from a strictly human perspective to one focusing on the agency of objects opens up the novel to new readings wherein morality emerges through nonhuman actors. Welsh’s work has traditionally been hailed as Scottish working-class realism that portrays its characters unideologically, to the point that the novels, through the characters, appear without morality. LÄS MER

7. 5. Multispecies Urban Space and History: : Dogs and Other Nonhuman Animals in 19th Century Stockholm

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

   Författare :Mirabel Joshi; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Multispecies Narrative; Environmental History; Methodology; Urban Animal History; Dogs; Materiality; Urban Space; Stockholm; Nineteenth Century; Nonhuman animals; Complimentary Space; The Dwelling Perspective; Hybrid Geographies; Posthumanism;

   Sammanfattning :  This text aims to place nonhuman animals at the core of urban space and history to provide an insight into the life and materiality of dogs in Stockholm 1824-1920. The theoretical possibilities of more-than-human enquiries into history are discussed along with non-human animals as historical beings together with humans creating a common history (Ingold 2000, Whatmore 2002). LÄS MER