Sökning: "sacrifice zones"

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  1. 1. Seeing Lithium Extraction : Countering the Myth of ‘Green’ Transition through Contemporary Art

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Victoria McCarthy; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Lithium extraction; contemporary art; extractivism; ‘green’ transition; myth; green sacrifice zones; visibility; countervisuality; Unknown Fields; Marcela Magno; Julian Charrière; Extracción de litio; arte contemporaneo; extractivismo; trancisión verde ; zonas de sacrificio verdes; visibilización; contra-visualidad;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the intersection between lithium extraction and contemporary art through a visual semiotic analysis of three contemporary artworks: Unknown Fields’ We Power Our Future With the Breast Milk of Volcanoes, Marcela Magno’s Land [2] Litio, and Julian Charrière’s Future Fossil Spaces. It explores how lithium extraction is visualised in the selected artworks, what connotations can be extracted from them, the geopolitical dimension expressed in them, and how they relate to the myth of ‘green’ transition. LÄS MER

  3. 2. “LKAB är en drake som ingen vill väcka” : En fallstudieanalys om framställningen av Gabna samebys rättigheter och intressen i svensk riksmedia

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Miranda Olofsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :The Sami village of Gabna; Sami rights; LKAB; rare earth elements; the Swedish state; critical discourse analysis; Swedish national media; center and periphery; internal orientalism; green colonialism; green sacrifice zones.;

    Sammanfattning : Exploitation of indigenous lands due to the extraction of natural resources is a global problem, historically and today. This paper will focus on a Swedish context, specifically the mining industry in Kiruna and how the state-owned mining company LKAB with a new discovery of rare earth elements (REE) threatens to exploit the lands of the Sami village of Gabna. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Mining for the low-carbon transition : Conflicting discourses of sacrifice zones and win-win narratives

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Isabella Andersson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Climate-smart mining; low-carbon transition; discourse analysis; discourse coalitions; storylines; sacrifice zones; World Bank;

    Sammanfattning : To support the transition towards a low-carbon economy, mining companies, international financial institutions and governments are preparing to drastically scale up mineral extraction of energy transition minerals such as cobalt and lithium. Mineral extraction, however, has far-reaching impacts on the biophysical environment and mining-affected communities that may become more severe under a changing climate. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kollektivtrafikens bidrag till stadens hållbara tillgänglighet - En analys av restidskvoter i Malmö

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Lunds universitet/Trafik och väg

    Författare :Ahmad Akil Hashem; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Tillgänglighet; restidskvot; kollektivtrafikandel; Malmö; Technology and Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : In a sustainable society accessibility is vital and should be provided for everyone, regardless of their background. There are different components within accessibility as a concept. One of these components is transport, which has to do with the ability to transport to different destinations with minimum sacrifice. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Rejecting Fate : The challenge of a subaltern community to the creation of a sacrifice zone in Can Sant Joan, Catalonia

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö

    Författare :Sergio Ruiz Cayuela; [2018]
    Nyckelord :political ecology; environmental justice; environmental humanities; subaltern environmentalism; slow violence; sacrifice zones; environmental humanities;

    Sammanfattning : It was my first visit ever to the neighborhood association – in February 2017 – and the phone rang again in the contiguous room. “I’m sorry” apologized José Luis “but our colleagues are not here yet and I need to answer the phone”. LÄS MER