Essays about: "Wilderness"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the word Wilderness.
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1. Constructing a civilized wilderness. An intersectional discourse analysis of the Sierra Club 1893-1910
University essay fromAbstract : This study investigates if and how the Sierra Club adapted complex and contradictory rationalizations to legitimize their authority in wilderness and civilization. The study aims thereby to enhance our understanding of the origin narrative of the American preservation and conservation movement at the turn of the twentieth century which depicted white male heroes as discoverers and protectors of a pristine wilderness. READ MORE
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2. Wild cimarrones: Cuban maroon ecology in the first half of the 19th century and the corporeal rift
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Analyses of enslaved labor and marronage in the Caribbean and beyond abound. As insightful and important as many of these works have been, they have often overlooked the ecological dimension of the maroons’ struggle for their liberation, the relationship between nature and the political struggle for emancipation. READ MORE
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3. Talking Communities : Sámi Trail of Tears as a Model of Habitus-Based Reconciliation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This conflict study in Theology investigates reconciliation possibilities in indigenous lands in northern Sweden to be discussed through the Sámi Trail of Tears Walking Trail – a real-life innovation project. The historical material is based on the depiction of forcefully dislocated Sámis and the now polarized situation where local indigenous groups risk new conflicts partly with each other, partly with extractive industries, motorized tourism, and the majority’s society. READ MORE
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4. Hiding in Plain Sight : A Gynocritical Reading of Rochester’s Narrative in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay is the result of a close-reading of the male protagonist’s narrative in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). His narrative was examined through an interpretive lens layered with a combination of several critical onsets that form the pillars of Elaine Showalter’s theory of a metaphysical female crescent outside of male consciousness. READ MORE
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5. Urban natur : design för naturupplevelser, vildhet och biologisk mångfald i staden
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : Uppsatsen undersöker hur design av grönområden skulle kunna se ut om de gjordes med målen att skapa värden för biologisk mångfald och tillgängliggöra naturupplevelser för människor i staden, med ett designförslag av en befintlig park i Malmö som fallstudie. I växande städer är förtätning en strategi för att minska städers utbredning och konsumtion av omgivande landområden vilket innebär en allvarlig påverkan på biologisk mångfald. READ MORE
