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  1. 1. 'Speak Your Mind and Speak it Clearly': Discourse and the Importance of Voices in Boy Erased, Garrard Conley.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle

    Författare :Marie Deneuville; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Boy Erased; Garrard Conley; discourse; voice; silence; narratology; speech;

    Sammanfattning : The voices of the autodiegetic narrator and its character counterpart in Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley enter the debate around the ontology of voice in literary texts. Using this debate, I will provide an analysis of the voices in this memoir in order to prove the importance of assuming a voice for the narrator, to compensate for speech silenced through discourses and social contexts. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Vi har problem - om medvaro i ljuset av klimatkrisen

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Författare :Åke Östergren; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Mitsein; being-with; Nancy; being plural singular; ontology; climate crisis; Smith; medvaro; att vara singulärt plural; Nancy; ontologi; klimatkris; Smith;

    Sammanfattning : This essay tries to find a possible way for us to deal with the questions concerning climate change by looking into an alternative conception of being. One can speak of the ongoing climate change as a crisis that concerns all of human kind and all beings on earth, but how can we fight it together? The situation demands us to re-think how we humans exist together and among other beings. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The political ecology of alternative agriculture: Ontological difference and conflict in the struggle over sustainability in Scania and on Zealand

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Sofie Andersson; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Biodynamic farming; alternative agriculture; political ontology; political ecology; human ecology; organic farming; sustainability; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The aim in this thesis is to explore how power dynamics are involved as one way of knowing the environment is held to be more rational than the other. This is being put in the case of the development of alternative agriculture in Sweden and Denmark, where organic agriculture has managed to gain greater attention in recent years whilst biodynamic farming has been less successful. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Panpsychist Worldview : Challenging the Naturalism-Theism Dichotomy

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Edwin Oldfield; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Worldviews; Panpsychism; Theism; Naturalism; Consciousness; Ultimate reality; emergentism; The combination problem; eliminative materialism;

    Sammanfattning : The discussion of worldviews is today dominated by two worldviews, Theism and Naturalism, each with its own advantages and problems. Theism has the advantage of accommodating the individual with existential answers whilst having problems with integrating more recent scientific understandings of the universe. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Jagt, sex og død. Et studie af airo-pais jagtritualer i amazonskoven

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Författare :Lasse Schiøtt; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Social Anthropology. Airo-pai. Cosmology. Hunting. Phenomenology. Ontology.; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to explore relations between the Amazonian indigenous people Airo-pai and the animals and spirits inhabiting their natural environment. The thesis analyzes how non-human animals and spirits interact with Airo-pai during rituals and subsistence activities in their everyday life. LÄS MER