Essays about: "Critical dystopia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Critical dystopia.

1. 1. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Ryan Nicholas Walsh; [2023]
   Keywords : Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ecocriticism; post-apocalypse; critical dystopia; climate change criticism; gated community; urban studies; agency; the Other; video game studies; ergodic literature.; Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ekokritik; postapokalyps; kritisk dystopi; klimatfiktion; grindsamhällen; urbana studier; agens; det Andra; spelforskning; ergodisk litteratur.;

   Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE

3. 2. Facing the Friction of a Totalitarian Government : A critical reading of Orwell's 1984 applying the Pedagogy of Discomfort to themes related to government control

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Hanna Houda Axelsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Pedagogy of Discomfort to themes related to government control;

   Abstract : This study explores the potential application of George Orwell's novel 1984 in ESL instruction and its influence on promoting discussion among students on divisive political issues. The objective is to examine how the novel's underlying concepts of oppression, dictatorship, and propaganda could encourage critical thinking and social interaction among ESL students. READ MORE

4. 3. Gardens of Compost

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Anton Lindström; [2020]
   Keywords : anthropocene; storytelling; deleuze; haraway; critical; theory; environmentalism; rhizome; SF; string figures; care; painting; feminism; dystopia; apocalypse;

   Abstract : An interrogation of architecture's prevailing myths, and a practice for how to live and die well as an architect in the Anthropocene epoch.  It is an effort to combine joyful representation and speculation (because architecture is both too serious and not nearly serious enough), with philosophy, for still possible pasts, presents and futures. READ MORE

5. 4. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The Hunger Games : Implementing critical literacy in the EFL classroom when reading Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Johanna Hansson; [2018]
   Keywords : Human Rights; critical literacy; young adult literature; dystopia; the EFL classroom; education; The Hunger Games;

   Abstract : The primary aim of this master’s thesis has been to examine how the dystopian, young adult novel, The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins could entail depictions of violations against the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The analysis has been conducted based on a theme-based close reading of the novel using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a contextualization device. READ MORE

6. 5. THE FALSE PROMISE OF ‘USTOPIA’. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Utopian Feminist Romp or Dystopian Postfeminist Cautionary Tale?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Susanna Rokka; [2016-09-26]
   Keywords : engelska; feminism; subjectivity; gender; dystopia; utopia; Margaret Atwood;

   Abstract : The Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is a text that attempts a critical rebalancing of an established gender hierarchy. The novels expose the fundamental power imbalances present in a binary gender system. READ MORE