Essays about: "re-imagination"

Found 4 essays containing the word re-imagination.

  1. 1. New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Lisa Pier; [2022]
    Keywords : extractivism; development; resistance; re-imagination; decoloniality; alternatives; self-determination; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist resistance. READ MORE

  3. 2. Representing Bergslagen for tourism – a post-feminist approach : Androcentric representations of the industrial heritage in central Sweden

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Turismvetenskap

    Author : Minéa Funk; [2018]
    Keywords : Androcentricism; Bergslagen; Industrial heritage tourism; Post-feminist theory; Representations.;

    Abstract : Marketing material used in promotion of industrial heritage sites for tourism creates representations of said cultural heritage. In order to increase the touristic value of the historical industrial sites marketers can create or make a place attractive through careful selection of images and texts. READ MORE

  4. 3. Storytelling in the Anthropocene: A critical consideration of the Anthropocene using socio-ecological theory and science fiction to scrutinise current and envision future stories of social justice and ecological sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Petra Van Der Kooij; [2016]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; social justice; ecological sustainability; socio-ecological theory; eco-Marxism; posthumanism; science fiction; utopia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : We now have entered the Anthropocene. Humanity is the new geological force drastically changing the systems of the Earth. At least this is the story told by natural scientists. Social scientists are critical of this ‘natural’ narrative as it cannot deal with the social dimension of geological changes. READ MORE

  5. 4. Activating Vancover's Laneways : Re: Imagining the Downtown Eastsides Under-Utilised Public Spaces

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Samuel Owen Cameron; [2013]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : As a departure point for this thesis project, I retain a duality of presuppositions. The first maintains that the city of Vancouver’s laneways have long existed as under-utilised and under-appreciated, in-between spaces; hidden in plain site (Loukaitou-Sideris 1996), often deteriorating and habitually prevailing in a dilapidated state of disrepair. READ MORE