Essays about: "Everyday Utopias"
Found 3 essays containing the words Everyday Utopias.
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1. Climate Justice Movement as Norm Entrepreneur in Global Politics : Creating an Alternative Future in Lützerath to Protest Coal Mining
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This thesis argues that contemporary climate justice actions can present a case for how social movements and activists engage as norm entrepreneurs with global politics. Following a case-based approach (McKee, 2003) and combining perspectives of political science with anthropology, theoretical concepts of everyday utopias (Cooper, 2014) and prefiguration (Maeckelbergh, 2011b; 2014) are applied to the case of a village occupation in Germany against a lignite coal mine expansion. READ MORE
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2. “It’s my city and I’m not going to move away!” : Shaping a sense of being-at-home-in-the-world and seeking balance between acting and being acted upon in developing Bratislava.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, is undergoing a significant change of its built environment due to a massive process of development since the mid-2000s. This series of construction, destruction, transformation and modernising processes has radically transformed a central industrial locality of the city into a wholly new business-administrative district. READ MORE
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3. Utopia - dystopia : documentation of the thesis Utopia/dystopia
University essay from Inredningsarkitektur & MöbeldesignAbstract : I will start my thesis project with an analyse of current innovations in technology and new materials to find out what possible potential they may offer for new design solutions. The focus will be on inventions of disruptive technologies of the past and the present and how they change our way of life. READ MORE
