Sökning: "water politics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 48 uppsatser innehållade orden water politics.

  1. 1. Spår i jorden : en studie av ett extraktionslandskap

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Författare :Sebastian Hahn; [2023]
    Nyckelord :extraktionslandskap; nymaterialism; landskapshistoria; mosse; torv; torvtäkt; postindustriellt landskap; spårande; rumslighet;

    Sammanfattning : Detta examensarbete utforskar torvtäkten som landsakap. Torvindustrin har en långtgående historia i Sverige, och de utdikade torvmossarna utgör några av de största landskapssåren i landet. Under påtryckningar från politik och samhälle har industrin minskat kraftigt, och många torvtäkter hotas nu av nedläggning. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Mitt kors - En stötesten för kyrkan? En diskursanalys av initiativet Mitt kors.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Tommy Brandt; [2022-06-20]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : Father Jaques Hamel was murdered on July 26, 2016, while he was celebrating the morning mass in his small church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in northern France. Hamel was killed by two young men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. It was a time of growing numbers of reports of political Islamic terror acts on European soil. LÄS MER

  4. 3. People help the people: A critical discourse analysis of NGO activism against water privatisation in El Salvador

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Line Lundager Olsen; [2022]
    Nyckelord :activism; El Salvador; water politics; water privatisation; power; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns itself with the current state of water activism in El Salvador. For 20 years the topic has been a point of conflict for the nation, with both wins and losses for the water activists. The previous academic research into this consists of ethnographic studies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Politics of Porpoises – A Critical Assessment of the Biodiversity Conservation Efforts by the European Union within the Baltic Sea

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

    Författare :Tina Alexandra Döhring; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Baltic Sea; Conservation; Biodiversity; Harbor Porpoise; European Union; European Commission; Member States; Integration Theory; Case Study;

    Sammanfattning : The Baltic Sea is a brackish body of water in the heart of Europe, and within it lives a small whale: the Baltic Sea harbor porpoise. However, this animal is becoming increasingly more endangered. Due to various man-made threats, less than 500 animals remain in the sea. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Data centers and Indigenous sovereignty : Data center materialities, representation and power in Sápmi/northern Sweden

    Master-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Satenik Sargsyan; [2022]
    Nyckelord :data center; Indigenous; Sámi; Sami; contrapuntal; digital infrastructure; Sápmi; Sapmi; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : From “disguised and concealed” (Parks and Starosielski 2015) in nature to more recent, select attempts at “visible, accessible, environmentally friendly” (Holt and Vonderau 2015), data centers are the backbone of the digital infrastructure. Studies of data centers continuously help develop media and communications studies in understanding the role of media infrastructure, representations of imaginaries of the cloud; social, political and economic realities embedded in data, and issues of power, agency and resistance against the backdrop of increased global concerns for the environment and greening practices, built into the discourse of tech companies. LÄS MER