Essays about: "expedition"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the word expedition.
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1. Chasing Shadows : An Anthropological Expedition of the Hunt for Olle Högbom
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This essay explores the mysterious disappearance of Olle Högbom from an anthropological perspective. It uses theories of hauntology, ruinology, and simulacra to examine how Olle's absence continues to affect society. READ MORE
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2. Machine learning-assisted image analysis and metabarcoding for monitoring of plankton in the seas surrounding Sweden
University essay from KTH/Industriell bioteknologiAbstract : I miljöövervakningen av haven runt Sverige har manuell mikroskopi av plankton länge varit den huvudsakliga tekniken för att övervaka växtplanktonbestånden och algblomningar. Nya tekniker utvärderas, men det är inte känt hur resultaten från de nyare teknikerna relaterar till varandra. READ MORE
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3. 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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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. The Habitat : A Posthumanist Design Project for Making Kin with Nonhuman
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : ‘the habitat’ is a Design+Change project which originates from the will to create positive change in the current situation of climate and ecological emergency. The design project takes the Anthropocene and the materialization of nonhumans as starting point and develops further around the possibilities of forming non-anthropocentric and nonhuman-centered mentalities and world-making processes. READ MORE