Essays about: "Fetishism"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the word Fetishism.
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6. Degrowth : a movement or a vision? Identifying barriers and potentials for a powerful agent of change for the socio-ecological transformation in Barcelona
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Our current economic system is inherently unsustainable. The ‘growth fetishism’ not only is the dominant paradigm of our economies, but goes way deeper into our understanding of how well-being is defined and can be improved. The concept of ‘degrowth’ tries to question this hegemony. READ MORE
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7. A critical reflection on the hegemony of technology and possibilities of including ethics in public consumption
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Motivated by the phenomenon of one laptop per child in education at high-school level in the Swedish public sector, this master’s thesis elaborates on the question of ethics in public consumption. My research aims to show that collective actors such as municipalities can be seen as (un)ethical consumers and that they need to become aware of this. READ MORE
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8. Technology Intensive and Sustainable Schools: A Discourse Analysis of Statements regarding the Use of ICT in Education in Lund
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This thesis investigates the perceptions of people within the education sector in Lund Municipality regarding sustainability implications of the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in schools. It demonstrates how local perceptions are largely affected by powerful global neoliberal forces. READ MORE
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9. Financial Crisis and Experience Itself : The Beginning of a Redeeming Story in Iceland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This thesis explores the experience – experience itself – of the economic crisis in Iceland 2008. This exploration takes its starting point in personal stories that together form a mythic narrative about the crisis in which the causes of the crisis are retroactively invented through the construction of a phantasmagoria. READ MORE
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10. Is ‘Renewable Energy’ a Myth? A Comparison between Muscle Work and Agrofuel Energy in Agricultural Production
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This study emerges from the rising concern that the now widespread faith in renewable energy systems—as a way to deal with the ecological crisis—may be unfounded. Drawing on inspiration from the global peasant movement Via Campesina and their hypothesis that small-scale agriculture is a strategy for “cooling down the Earth”, this study seeks to discuss the reasons for the widespread belief in renewable energy systems based on how they differ from animate energy systems that have proven successful in the past. READ MORE
