Essays about: "More-than-human"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the word More-than-human.

1. 1. Movement towards socioecological change: The case of Ecosomatics

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Wilma Lagerman; [2024-03-19]
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   Abstract : Several scholars both within and outside the field of human ecology argue that the perceptual human-nature divide contributes profoundly to patterns of unsustainability and weak sustainability visible in the world today. Deliberately engaging in conscious bodily-felt contact with the natural environment is suggested to uncover appropriate, embodied angles to approaching ecology and the environmental crisis. READ MORE

3. 2. Pigeon Tales : An Exploration of Humanimal Entanglement in Urban Spaces

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

   Author : Anna Hoekman; [2023]
   Keywords : Pigeons; humanimal relations; animal rights; posthumanism; companion species; historical ecology;

   Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of the humanimal entanglements between humans and pigeons in the urban setting. It traces human-pigeon histories from pigeons’ domestication forward to the contemporary conceptions of pigeons as a pest animal. READ MORE

4. 3. Birdpoetic Worlds : Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren's bird poems

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Estetik

   Author : Jessica Sunnebo; [2023]
   Keywords : Nina Södergren; Animism; Ecocriticism; Human-animal studies; Ecopoetics; Zoopoetics; Poetry; Birdpoetry; Birds; More-than-human world; Attentiveness; Nils Aslak Valkeapää; Nina Södergren; Animism; Ekokritik; Litterära djurstudier; Ekopoetik; Zoopoetik; Poesi; Fågelpoesi; Fåglar; Mer-än-mänsklig värld; Uppmärksamhet; Nils Aslak Valkeapää;

   Abstract : This thesis, Birdpoetic Worlds: Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren’s bird poems, analyses a selection of poems by Swedish poet Nina Södergren (1924–2015) from the collection Högt ärade trana: Nya dikter och urval av tidigare poesi* (2012),  through the lens of ecocriticism and animism. The aim is to identify and explore how her bird poetics can function as an invitation to sense a relational experience and interconnectedness with the more-than-human world, especially through attentiveness. READ MORE

5. 4. Designing for Interconnectedness : Strategies for More-Than-Human Experiences

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

   Author : Anton Fischer; Flora Jameson; [2023]
   Keywords : Research through design; interconnectedness; more-than-human design; design strategies; noticing; sustainable HCI; 3D-printing; circular material flow;

   Abstract : More-than-human design represents a paradigm shift that decentralises the human in relation to the rest of the living world. As part of this movement, scholars call for a new worldview that recognizes the interconnectedness between human and non-human beings. READ MORE

6. 5. Hambach Forest Occupation : Relationships of Care between Plants and Humans

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Tereza Lehečková; [2023]
   Keywords : interspecies ethics of care; more-than-human ethics; more-than-human sociality; Chthulucén; violent-care; activism; mental health; multispecies ethnography; plant ethnography;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the interspecies relationships of care in the Hambach Forest, Germany. It covers the caring relations between the human activists protecting the Forest by occupying it and the trees growing there. READ MORE