Essays about: "environmental studies and media"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 69 essays containing the words environmental studies and media.
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1. The suffocating enjoyment of the Other: An ideology critique of enjoyment in the mediatisation of the climate crisis
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This thesis explores how the Lacanian concept of ‘the enjoyment of the Other’ (la jouissance de l’Autre) can be applied to break open normative understandings of the political factors shaping the climate crisis deadlock. The principal aim is to investigate how ostensibly disconnected environmental debates may be regarded as linked by an economy of enjoyment, more precisely by the promise of enjoyment by which the subject is libidinally attached to an ideology. READ MORE
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2. The polarized attitudes of offshore wind - The social acceptance of planned offshore wind farm Västvind among Öckerö municipality residents
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)Abstract : Climate change, the energy crisis of 2022-2023, and estimations of future electricity demands have stressed the necessity for a rapid transition of the energy system. Offshore wind energy plays an important role in this transition, and is expected to expand considerably on a global level, in the EU and in Sweden. READ MORE
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3. Geographic polarization and clustering of partisan voting: A local-level analysis of Stockholm Municipality
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : In the last decade, the topic of political polarization has become a growing concern within academic and public debate. Many highlight the linkage between increased political polarization and democratic problems such as political tribalism and uncivil activism. It is also argued to be a global phenomenon. READ MORE
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4. Agenda-Setting in the Arctic : Critical Discourse Studies in the Case of the Norilsk Oil Spill
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : This paper examines the existing discourses surrounding environmental issues in Russia using a large oil Spill in Norilsk as a case study. The spill, which occurred in the summer of 2020, is the largest man-made disaster to ever occur in the Arctic, resulting in around 21,000 tons of diesel fuel being spilled into the ground and surrounding waterways. READ MORE
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5. Viktminskning av katter : motivation, tillvägagångsätt och utmaningar bland kattägare i Sverige
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and HealthAbstract : Många katter i dagens samhälle är överviktiga, vilket kan få betydande negativa konsekvenser för deras hälsa och välmående. Flera studier har emellertid visat att det är svårt att uppnå långsiktig viktminskning hos katter när det genomförs i hemmiljö och många ägare avbryter viktminskningen innan katten nått sin målvikt. READ MORE
