Essays about: "Real Utopia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Real Utopia.

  1. 1. The Buen Vivir as a Real Utopia? Analysing the transformative potential of the Ecuadorian socio-political project for the Good Living

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Alexandra Gerer; [2022]
    Keywords : Buen Vivir; Real Utopia; Ecuador; transformation; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Motivated by the need for transformative change and more holistic conceptions of wellbeing, this thesis aims to explore the transformative potential of the Buen Vivir. As a synthesis of indigenous and modern principles, it was integrated in the Ecuadorian constitution. READ MORE

  3. 2. Beyond Human Displacement(s) : Spacetime Stories of Agency in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Bianca Lange; [2021]
    Keywords : Migration studies; New materialism s ; Ontology; Agency; Displacement s ; More-than-human; Parable of the Sower;

    Abstract : In this thesis project, the aim is to explore displacements beyond the familiar usage in migration studies associated with ’human’ by using a new materialist/s understanding ofontology and agency. This approach opens the possibility to move beyond the understanding of displacements as referring only to human agency. READ MORE

  4. 3. Utopia renewed : transition to renewable energy in the Netherlands : a new solution, a new agent, a new pathway

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Joep Karskens; [2016]
    Keywords : sustainability science; energy co-operatives; Real Utopia; energy transition; climate movement; movement strategy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the face of climate change, a fast global switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy is imperative. In the Netherlands however, prospects for such a switch are bleak. With 6% renewables its progress is lagging, and vested interests hold back change. The transition is failing. READ MORE

  5. 4. Trajectories to a sustainable future : environmental education form a critical perspective

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Julie Rose Bang; [2015]
    Keywords : climate change; sustainability; education; critical theory; societal change;

    Abstract : Climate change is one of the most significant current threats to civilisation and nature and accordingly a vast number of approaches towards its prevention are undertaken around the world. While some of these approaches are attempts at technical solutions, numerous agencies and experts argue that behavioural change is needed in order to achieve any significant and long-term results. READ MORE

  6. 5. Situated Collective Utopias: Stories of engaged spatial practices and shared territorial heritage

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Miguel Ros; [2015]
    Keywords : performance; utopias; heritage; interventions; making; telling;

    Abstract : Challenging the wide-spread hopelessness in relationship to our capacity to produce real alternatives to the abstract and egoistic neoliberal utopia – with its destructive and unfair consequences around the globe in general and specifically in Mallorca – this thesis, understood as performative research, focuses on the conception and development of Situated Collective Utopias.  These would be utopias that can grow generously and unfold not as abstract and consensed projections of futures but as extrusions of very contextual and often dissensual hopes. READ MORE