Essays about: "degradation narrative"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words degradation narrative.
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1. Living Forms
University essay from Lunds universitet/IndustridesignAbstract : This project is about imagining new ways we live at home, and new objects to take place. The project is based on personal interests, short case studies, and observation on current human conditions. READ MORE
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2. Racism in environmental communication about plastic pollution
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This thesis contributes to the knowledge formation of how environmental racism is covertly transformed in environmental communication about plastic pollution and how that affects socioecological relations in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Through analysis rhetorical and narrative strategies of the communication by the NGO Durbanites Against Plastic Pollution and by observing the Durbanites it has been revealed how aversive racism is transformed within the context of plastic pollution. READ MORE
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3. How European Welfare States perpetuate the Growth Imperative - And why Alternatives are needed
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : In industrial circles, in political parties, and in newspapers, there is seldom one reiterating issue that concerns the general public more than the situation of a national economy, as well as how to secure or to undo the practice of it. What is arguably one of the core principals of modern cultures, especially in European societies, not just being a nuclear unit in a bigger economy, but enacting and reenacting the social construct of a normative system a political state economy offers, is strangely overlooked by the majority. READ MORE
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4. Sowing hope, harvesting justice: How Vila Nova Esperança transformed the environment into an ally to claim rights
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : The presence of informal settlements in large cities of the developing world is a concrete expression of urban poverty. The residents of Brazilian favelas are more likely to be exposed to environmental risks, lower life quality and risks of eviction. READ MORE
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5. The Fear of the Fall: Degeneration and Social Inequality in the Frame Narrative of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : H. G Wells’s novel The Time Machine is a significant work of science fiction that dramatizes the themes of degeneration and social inequality, themes that were very relevant during the Victorian era in relation to the discovery of evolution. READ MORE