Essays about: "Critical Materialism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Critical Materialism.

  1. 1. Weird Digitization: Alternative Strategies for Archival Materials

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Christa Shusko; [2024]
    Keywords : Digital Humanities; Digitization; Archival materials; Photography; Material culture.;

    Abstract : This thesis draws on the theory of new materialism to posit an alternative approach to cultural heritage digitization. Modifying the method of critical digitization and synthesizing it with the method of thick description for the study of damaged cultural heritage, this thesis proposes the method weird digitization which seeks to challenge traditional selection criteria for cultural heritage digitization as well as challenging practices of mass digitization. READ MORE

  3. 2. Climate on the Horizon?: Gothenburg dockworkers’ framings of their political horizon regarding climate change

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Jakob Gometz; [2022-01-18]
    Keywords : Labour Environmentalism; Critical Materialism; Frame Analysis; Critical Theory; Ecological Marxism; Environmental Labour Studies;

    Abstract : The climate is rapidly warming, and this has triggered a global trend in mobilisation against climate change. Due to workers’ unique position within the capitalist mode of production the interest in the potential for labour mobilisation against climate change is growing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Global Cultures – Critical Zone Observatories of Everyday Objects : (A Global Environmental History of Yogurt)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Leni Charbonneau; [2022]
    Keywords : yogurt; biofilm; critical zone observatory; microbiopolitics; probiotic; microbial biodiversity; new materialism; OOO;

    Abstract : This study turns to what is for many an everyday item – yogurt – as a critical zone observatory, a synergistic, place-based laboratory which aims to integrate heterogenous representations of planetary phenomena as they are registered at a common surface. Yogurt has an impressive cultural endurance largely derived from its prominence in various paradigms of health. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gambling with grains? A critical case study of the U.S. Commodity Futures Modernization Act and its implications for global food insecurity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Gabriel Snygg Kvernes; Albin Lagerlöf; [2022]
    Keywords : Commodity Futures Modernization Act; Food Insecurity; Agricultural Commodities; International Political Economy; Historical Materialism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In 2000, the Clinton Administration in the U.S. adopted the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which deregulated the U.S. READ MORE

  6. 5. Religion understood in relation to the human nature

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Lua Nazerian; [2021]
    Keywords : Religion; Philosophy; Virtue; Virtuous; Transcendent; Human nature; Platonic Idealism; Socrates; Positive Psychology; Cognitive Sciences of Religion; Critical Religion Theory; Realism; Materialism; Conceptualism.;

    Abstract : The study of the phenomenon of religion is a field that has many challenges regarding what its object of study is and how to observe and interpret the different religious phenomenon in a way that reflects both its origin and how its practiced. The study is carried out through a philosophical approach. READ MORE