Essays about: "Material-discursive"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word Material-discursive.

1. 1. Learning with fire, water and sun: A post-qualitative inquiry into Swedish friluftsliv education

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession

   Author : Karin Isaksson; [2022-06-30]
   Keywords : Swedish friluftsliv education; new materialism; material-discursive entanglements; sustainability education; embodied learning; post-qualitative inquiry;

   Abstract : Aim: The aim of this study was to empirically investigate the emerging material-discursive entanglements between humans and more-than-humans within Swedish friluftsliv education, and argue for the ways in which these create didactical and pedagogical opportunities for teachers and students to contribute to a more sustainable world. Theory: The research was theoretically framed within a new materialist ontology focusing on the entanglement between matter and meaning and the configuration of phenomena as material-discursive (Barad, 2007). READ MORE

3. 2. Sunscreens Imploded : An eco-cultural exploration of enskinment, protection, and vulnerability

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

   Author : Tobias Bharucha; [2022]
   Keywords : Sunscreen; SPF; Protection; Vulnerability; Care; Toxicity; Ecologies; Skin; Enskinment; ‘Endocrine Disruptors’; Skin Cancers; Racialised Beauty; Smell;

   Abstract : In this thesis I explore sunscreen use-practices, imaginaries, and material flows. I aim to understand how young people in the globally-immersed UK use sunscreens and how they makesense of them. READ MORE

4. 3. ’’Materials for a Better Life’’: Strategic Minerals and the Sustainability Transition : A Study on the Strategic Framing of Cobalt & The Material-Discursive Practices of the Extractive Industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

   Author : Gustav Dahlqvist; [2021]
   Keywords : cobalt; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; strategic framing; the sustainability transition; extractive industries; multinational corporations; sustainable development; material-discursive practices; securitisation; environmentalism; developmentalism; international relations;

   Abstract : Rechargeable batteries are set to power sustainable development by 2030. In this context, the increasingly important role of certain ‘strategic minerals’ used in emerging renewable technologies has become highly topical. READ MORE

5. 4. Performance Art and Agential Realism: Producing Material-Discursive Knowledge about Class and the Body.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Karron Corbett; [2021]
   Keywords : Feminist performance art; agential realism; intersectionality; class; new materialism; class-drag; performativity; class-passing; intra-activity;

   Abstract : Using new materialist approaches to intersectional theories of gender/sex –particularly Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemological framework, agential realism– this thesis examines how knowledge about class is produced, through feminist performance art practices. Through this lens I will examine how two pieces of performance art by U.K. READ MORE

6. 5. Visualizing hyperobjects: a co-operative play with nature

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetik

   Author : Mattsson Emelie; [2021]
   Keywords : artistic research; media technology; hyperobjects; intra-action; performativity; material-discursive practices; ecology; konstnärlig forskning; medieteknik; hyperobjekt; intra-aktion; performativitet; materiell-diskursiva praktiker; ekologi;

   Abstract : Based on Timothy Mortons notion of hyperobject, this material-discursive practice is a cooperative play of forces and intra-active agencies between nature and the technical world. This research reflects especially a paradigmatic shift from the traditional model to one of an interrelated and performative network, in which all of the non-human entities are seen with the same existence and considered to view as operative agents. READ MORE