Essays about: "nonhuman actors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words nonhuman actors.

  1. 1. Reconciling Material & Social Through Waste : The Case of Överskottet as an Alternative Way of Organizing Waste

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : ADEL MIFTAKHOVA; Chaïma Ben Mahmoud; [2023]
    Keywords : social services; waste management; Actor-Network Theory; actors; actants; network; nonhuman; human; collaboration; connections; policies;

    Abstract : The problematization of waste surplus informed numerous decisions on local, national and international levels. However, the waste pollution problem is far from being solved. This paper attempts to explore an alternative way of organizing waste using the Actor-Network Theory, which argues for equality between humans and nonhumans. READ MORE

  3. 2. The dynamic process of brand negotiation in virtual brand communities in the airline industry - a case study of a full-service carrier, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Jing Rong Chang; Corina Choi Magnusson; [2021-07-01]
    Keywords : Brand negotiation; virtual brand communities; trust and commitment; actor-network theory; airline industry;

    Abstract : The increasing application of digitalisation and the popular use of social media affect the way brands communicate with their customers. The growing significance of virtual brand communities (VBCs) such as Facebook brand fan pages has led to a change in how brands and consumers interact, thus urging researchers and marketers to look for new perspectives of management within this area. READ MORE

  4. 3. Triptych of ruderal architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Erik Lokrantz; [2021]
    Keywords : nonhuman actors; ownership; property; artistic research; speculative fabulation; science fiction; ruin; ruderal; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; haraway; bennet; stengers; le guin;

    Abstract : The Ruderal Triptych is a narrative, fictional, artistic, research project. It centers itself on questions of ownership as a legal and physical machinery, that works within global extractive economies. I want to question what we are really producing when we produce architecture. READ MORE

  5. 4. Planering för kultur, föreningsliv och offentlighet : en analys av stadsdelarna Norra Sorgenfri och Sofielunds verksamhetsområde i Malmö

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

    Author : Anna Örman; [2021]
    Keywords : planering; kultur; föreningsliv; offentlighet; assemblageteori; aktör; Malmö; Norra Sorgenfri; Sofielunds verksamhetsområde; kulturljudzon; bostadsetablering;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between culture and association activities on the one hand and the public life of the city on the other. I will explore how this relation is manifested in the planning of two districts in Malmö: Norra Sorgenfri and Sofielunds verksamhetsområde. READ MORE

  6. 5. Home in Hardship : Exploring how United Nations professionals negotiate constructions of home in and between hardship settings

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Alexander Thomas; [2021]
    Keywords : Home; mobility; international repeat mobility; actor-network theory; ANT; constructivism; United Nations; hardship;

    Abstract : There is a general recognition within the social sciences that extensive mobility challenges how we perceive the notion of home. With this idea as its starting point, this thesis explores how situations of hardship impact the ways in which mobile professionals negotiate and construct their homes. READ MORE