Essays about: "Transition Towns Movement"

Found 3 essays containing the words Transition Towns Movement.

  1. 1. Stadsranden : ingenmanslandet eller det givande mötet

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Josephine Rosendahl; [2017]
    Keywords : stadsrand; mångfunktionella landskap; samband; stad och landsbygd; hållbar utveckling; planering; jordbruksmark;

    Abstract : Urbaniseringen har pågått i olika grad under lång tid och har under årens lopp diskuterats hur den ska regleras och styras upp. Svårigheten att ge alla möjlighet och plats i staden har lett till att städerna har fått växa och breda ut sig och jordbruksmarken och det befintliga landskapet har fått ge vika. READ MORE

  3. 2. A More Just Way of Living For Everybody? Stories of Language, Privilege, and a Transition Towns Movement in Eastern Canada

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Lucia Bardos; [2015]
    Keywords : Language; Transition Towns; Transition Movement; Privilege; Epistemology; Coalition Politics; Feminist Theory; Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the relationship between the transition movement and social and ecological justice. Through a case study of Transition Guelph (TG), a transition town in Ontario, Canada, I discuss how TG creates a language based on binary concepts embedded in unequal power relations, and how this language informs their actions and activism. READ MORE

  4. 3. “The future will be local.” Omställning Sverige – the transition towns movement in Sweden : from local communities to counter-hegemony?

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

    Author : Maria Franziska Pühringer; [2013]
    Keywords : Transition Towns Movement; Omställning Sverige; Sweden; Stockholm; environmental movement; hegemony; counter-hegemony; common sense; resistance; neoliberal hegemony;

    Abstract : Neoliberal paradigms and a neoliberal hegemony are increasingly under pressure. Social and environmental movements stand on the forefront of providing alternative ways of thinking. In this paper I look into a newly emerged environmental movement in Sweden, Omställning Sverige. READ MORE