Essays about: "“National imagination”"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words “National imagination”.

  1. 1. Towards Uncertain Futures - Envisioning Scenario Stories of Human Nature Relationships on the High Seas

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Hannah Marlen Lübker; [2022]
    Keywords : High Seas; Uncertainty; Reconnection; Imagination; Transformation; Futures;

    Abstract : The High Seas, the areas of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction, are experiencing a starkincrease in industrial activities, ranging from fishing to deep sea mining to offshore oil and gasextraction. Marine resources are exploited unsustainably and the benefits of this exploitationare shared unequally. READ MORE

  3. 2. Imagining the Metaverse Worlds : The Perspectives of Meta and Indonesians

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Hamzah Dzikri Fadliansyah; [2022]
    Keywords : actor-network theory; civic imagination; digital technology; Indonesia Indonesian tech workers; mediatization; Meta; metaverse; postdigital; science and technology studies; sociotechnical imaginaries; technological convergence; transmedia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook to Meta through a keynote video uploaded on Meta’s official YouTube channel. The keynote video contains Meta’s new vision to build an immersive extended reality world called metaverse. However, the idea of the metaverse is contested. READ MORE

  4. 3. Wandering Through Intellectual Ashes : National Identity and the Southern Question in Postwar Marxist Italian Film. A Postcolonial Visual Ontology

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Matilde Veglia; [2022]
    Keywords : Pasolini; Gramsci; Bauman; Neorealism; Commedia all Italiana; Cinema; Italian Maxism; Postmodernity; Postcolonial Studies; The Wanderer; The Nomad;

    Abstract : This thesis is crafted as an explorative theoretical essay, which aims to disclose the continuities and shifts in constructions of Italian post-war identity through the lenses of Marxist theory and postcolonial film analysis. The research will attempt to locate three paradigmatic cases of post-war Italian cinema and their authors in relation to the historical context, as well as coeval political and theoretical developments in the country. READ MORE

  5. 4. Porträtt av svenska naturlandskap : en utforskande resa genom nationalparkernas rum från norr till söder

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Maria Nelly; Bim Troell; [2021]
    Keywords : estetik; landskapsrum; nationalpark; naturlandskap; perception; uipplevelsevärden;

    Abstract : Svaret på hur vi utforskar, läser, uppfattar och upplever landskap är mångfacetterat och bygger på vår perceptuella uppfattning och kognitiva förmåga. Genom att ha ett öppet sinne kan man upptäcka de många olika lager som ett landskap kan innehålla, en mångfald av värden och kvalitéer som initialt kanske inte är uppenbara. READ MORE

  6. 5. Behind the protest : the construction of national and local identities in postcolonial Hong Kong

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jiabei He; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : People in Hong Kong continues to wrestle with the configuration of national identity and local distinctiveness, even though the fact of handover from the British to China was settled long ago. In the recent decade, several large-scale political protests have witnessed the hostile sentiments from Hong Kong people towards the central government and their shrinking attachments to the nation. READ MORE