Essays about: "Assemblage thinking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Assemblage thinking.

  1. 1. Thinking with Ai Stratis : Becoming-Tourist, Becoming-Researcher in a More-Than-Human-World

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Byggteknik och byggd miljö

    Author : Paulina Raduchowska; [2022]
    Keywords : Ai Stratis; Agios Efstratios; island; tourism; research; becoming; affect; posthuman; multispecies; landscape; Deleuze; ethics of care; more-than-human; sustainability; futurity; assemblage; environmental humanities; ontological turn; guest; host;

    Abstract : This study discusses the difference between thinking with and about the island of Ai Stratis for knowledge production, advocating for situated research and embodied experience. Having conducted an ethnographic study, on the island of Ai Stratis in the North Aegean region of Greece in the summer of 2021, I look out from the island, assuming a tree-fold research field, including the physical island of Ai Stratis, a plane of reflexivity, as well as a literary plane. READ MORE

  3. 2. Historical ecology of the Greater Burgan oilfield : economy, technology, politics, and workers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Saleh Youssef; [2022]
    Keywords : Oil extraction; The Greater Burgan Oilfield; Petrocultures; Assemblage thinking; Kuwait econ-omy; Oil peak; Migrant labour; Environmental History;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the current state of crude oil extraction and production in the Greater Burgan oilfield, Kuwait's largest and oldest oilfield. This thesis is based on interviews with oilfield workers, analyses of official documents from the Kuwaiti government and the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), and my own experience as an oilfield worker in Kuwait. READ MORE

  4. 3. Stockholm’s New Golden Bridge : A material infrastructure, fluid assemblage or megaproject?

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Giorgi Kankia; [2021]
    Keywords : urban infrastructures; heterogenous assemblages; desire; stabilization; fluidity; relational megaproject;

    Abstract : The recent addition to Stockholm’s built environment in the shape of the new Slussen bridge, or Guldbron as most locals call it, has been both a source of controversy and admiration. This reaction is typical of any infrastructure that reshapes our surroundings. However, this interaction is not unidirectional. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Stories Need to be Told : The politics of visibility/invisibility: Museum representations and participation of migrants, refugees, and ethnic minorities

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Author : Samineh Asri; [2019]
    Keywords : Museum; Representation; Visibility; Decoloniality; Complexity; Migrant; Assemblage;

    Abstract : International migration and the refugee crisis have sparked a number of debates within the public policy circle. This issue also has profound social and cultural implications, even in the museum sector. READ MORE

  6. 5. City centre rhythms: The case of gender in Dotonbori

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

    Author : Carl Olsson; [2016-09-23]
    Keywords : rhythmanalysis; rhythm; assemblage; policy and planning; gender;

    Abstract : Traditional social practice holds the urban night and day in binary opposition – each with a set of unique issues and problems to deal with. While such an attitude can be beneficial due to its clearness, it is at a risk of oversimplifying the fluidity of timespaces. READ MORE