Essays about: "animal-studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 47 essays containing the word animal-studies.

1. 1. Freedom and Movement for Humans and Wild Animals : A journey along the German-Danish border fence

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

   Author : Francis Rogers; [2023]
   Keywords : Animal migration; migrant rights; border fencing; habitat fragmentation; animal agency; German-Danish border;

   Abstract : In December 2019, the Danish government finished building a fence on the border with Germany. Although the fence was nominally intended to prevent wild boar entering Denmark, the government had recently acquired enough barbed wire to reinforce it against human migrants. 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. Implication of malaria infection on the immune response to vaccination

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper

   Author : Aida Heddini; Dylan Shafeie; [2023]
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   Abstract : Both genetic and environmental factors can influence the ability to mount and maintain an effective immune response, and the immune response to vaccination can vary significantly between ethnic groups and different geographical locations. Underlying infections is one factor with the potential to influence vaccination outcome. READ MORE

6. 5. Barefooting: A Tool for Environmental Consciousness

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Camille-Fleur Moraux-Pizano; [2023]
   Keywords : Barefooting; Critical Animal Studies; Environmental Consciousness; Nature Connectedness; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Modern human animals’ relationship with Nature is damaged and damaging. An emotional and physical separation is at play in this broken bond, with footwear literally and metaphorically embodying the disunion between spirit and body. READ MORE