Essays about: "Situated Knowledges"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Situated Knowledges.

  1. 1. Transformational thirdspace : Drawing from agora and permaculture

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Sydney Karbonk; Emma Sörbom; [2023]
    Keywords : Urban transformation; urban design; thirdspace; social sustainability; environmental sustainability; Stadsomvandling; stadsdesign; tredje utrymme; social hållbarhet; ekologisk hållbarhet;

    Abstract : Renewing the current thirdspace model is a critical step towards creating a sustainable future for cities. A thirdspace must possess specific qualities that go beyond simply creating conversation and building community. It must foster meaningful dialogue that inspires civic mobilization and drives action toward sustainability. READ MORE

  3. 2. Knowing To Transform : Sustainability and Openness In a (Post?)Colonial World

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Navit Reid; [2023]
    Keywords : sustainability; open knowledge; braided knowledge; knowledge systems; situated knowledges; post-qualitative; communities of practice; transformation;

    Abstract : Sustainability is seen as the solution to the wicked crisis of our unsustainability. However, the ways in which we know, understand, and enact sustainable solutions can often mean our participation reinforces the systems, institutions, and paradigms which have created our unsustainable societies in the first place. READ MORE

  4. 3. "It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with" : A Feminist-Phenomenological Re-telling of Donna Haraway's Practices of Collaborative Writing and Storytelling

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Silvia Thomackenstein; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist writing; phenomenology; Donna Haraway; Situated Knowledges; storytelling; nomadic subjects; co-authoring; Rosi Braidotti; Nina Lykke; Mona Livholts; feminist modes of academic writing; curatorial editing; publishing; exhibition catalogue; worlding; becoming-with; curatorial research; quoting; referencing; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Bruno Latour; Peter Weibel; transdisciplinarity;

    Abstract : This paper explores through Donna Haraway's storytelling practices feminist approaches to collaborative writing. Employing a phenomenological qualitative research approach, the thesis aims to analyze how Haraway herself exercises feminist writing and facilitates the learning of collaborative storytelling. READ MORE

  5. 4. “If the earth is a body, den a dam is a blood, watch wa gowin’ awn” The relationship between embodied knowledges of space and perceptions on climate change adaptation in St. Croix

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Chaprece Henry; Beatrice Klein; [2022]
    Keywords : climate change adaptation; relational space; knowledge politics; embodiment; cross-scalar; U.S Virgin Islands; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As climate change adaptation becomes more mainstreamed, there has been an increasing focus on incorporating local knowledge to ensure equitable adaptation pathways. However, adaptation discourses prioritize scientific understandings of climate change, ignoring epistemological differences in knowing climate change. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Nature Gives and Nature Takes” : a case study on the experience of farming with a changing water resource

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Olivia Margareta Stopek; [2021]
    Keywords : agriculture; water management; uncertainties; risks; climate change;

    Abstract : Water and the management of it holds a great complexity. We live in a time where adaptation measures often are based on risk calculations made by experts and bureaucrats where they try to measure future dangers of global climate change. READ MORE