Essays about: "futures research"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 107 essays containing the words futures research.

  1. 26. Kehrä/Kehrae : A moment in between

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för cirkus

    Author : Myrsky Rönkä; [2022]
    Keywords : Circus; ritual; liminality; communitas; play; animism; gift; rope; circus practice; nature; intimacy orientation; regenerative; sustainability;

    Abstract : First of all, my research is not only my research but our research. It has been made together with my long-time art companion Marjut Hernesniemi. The starting point for our research was our experience of the western modern circus, what it does, and how it cares for the cosmos. READ MORE

  3. 27. POSTCOLONIAL DISSENT SCENOGRAPHY: setting civic scene, building urban voice, new societies prototyping facilitation for Tensta.

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Mariia Otkalenko-Povalinska; [2022]
    Keywords : Social sustainability; feminist postcolonial theory; intersectionality; dissent; civic space; popular education; protest; parade; space occupation; grassroots society prototyping; urban design; Tensta;

    Abstract :   Urban space is a product of power relations and negotiations in society. Who gets represented and monumentalised in it, you? One is being formed and deformed by the environment they are placed into through the way it functions and suggests certain actions in a particular sequence, through the power distribution in its spatial equivalent. READ MORE

  4. 28. New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa

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

    Author : Lisa Pier; [2022]
    Keywords : extractivism; development; resistance; re-imagination; decoloniality; alternatives; self-determination; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist resistance. READ MORE

  5. 29. The Circular Economy Discourse among Dutch Policy Actors : Discussing the prospects for the Circular Economy in the Netherlands

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Niels van de Gronden; [2022]
    Keywords : Circular Economy; Discourse Analysis; Narrative Policy Framework; Circular Society; Environmental Policy Framework;

    Abstract : The Circular Economy (CE) has quickly become a very popular discourse and is considered to be the solution to the manifold socio-economic challenges of the Anthropocene. What this actually means, however, is still unclear and contested, as different actors and sectors pursue a different degree of ecological, economic, political and social transformation. READ MORE

  6. 30. IDENTITY & TECHNO-UTOPIANISM.A Critical Discourse Analysis of Marketing Material and their Sociotechnical Imaginaries

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/JMG - Inst f journalistik och masskomm

    Author : Åberg Albin; [2021-10-12]
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    Abstract : This research paper sets out to investigate the messaging present in a corpus of texts gathered from Acxiom’s, an American data-analysis and ‘Identity Solutions’-company, website. The paper applies a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis informed by Theo van Leeuwen’s theory of ‘legitimations’ and analyses the findings through the theoretical framework of ‘Sociotechnical Imaginaries’. READ MORE