Essays about: "nonhumans"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the word nonhumans.

  1. 1. Hambach Forest Occupation : Relationships of Care between Plants and Humans

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Tereza Lehečková; [2023]
    Keywords : interspecies ethics of care; more-than-human ethics; more-than-human sociality; Chthulucén; violent-care; activism; mental health; multispecies ethnography; plant ethnography;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the interspecies relationships of care in the Hambach Forest, Germany. It covers the caring relations between the human activists protecting the Forest by occupying it and the trees growing there. READ MORE

  3. 2. Reconciling Material & Social Through Waste : The Case of Överskottet as an Alternative Way of Organizing Waste

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : ADEL MIFTAKHOVA; Chaïma Ben Mahmoud; [2023]
    Keywords : social services; waste management; Actor-Network Theory; actors; actants; network; nonhuman; human; collaboration; connections; policies;

    Abstract : The problematization of waste surplus informed numerous decisions on local, national and international levels. However, the waste pollution problem is far from being solved. This paper attempts to explore an alternative way of organizing waste using the Actor-Network Theory, which argues for equality between humans and nonhumans. READ MORE

  4. 3. Design principles to foster respect for nature in video games

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Goutham Jayaraman; [2023]
    Keywords : Respect; Nature; Video Games; Biocentric; Game Design; Environment; Animals; Nonhumans; Climate Change; Ecology; Human-Nature Relationship;

    Abstract : Video games are critical and relevant tools which can be used to influence perceptions of nature. Many games have already sought to educate players about environmental issues, but the effect that games as a whole have on players’ respect for nature is yet uncertain. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cannibalism Is Not Inherently Immoral : A Philosophical Study of Morality and Cannibalism

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Rebecca Blomberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Cannibalism; Armin Meiwes; Meiwes; German cannibal; Cannibal; Moral; Morality; Immoral; Immorality; Philosophy; Ethics; Autonomy; Morality in cannibalism; cannibalism moral; cannibalism morality; consent; moral philosophyy; Kannibalism; kannibal; filosofi; etik; moral; samtycke; Armin Meiwes; Tysk kannibal; moralisk kannibalism; moral i kannibalism; moralfilosofi; autonomi;

    Abstract : This essay argues that cannibalism is not inherently immoral. To demonstrate this, I have analyzed the ethics of cannibalism through the perspective of consent, rights, autonomy, and consumption of flesh. I have defined the concepts of cannibalism and morality. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Habitat : A Posthumanist Design Project for Making Kin with Nonhuman

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Betyul Hafazoglu; [2022]
    Keywords : climate emergency; nonhuman; agency; posthumanism; multispecies design; human exceptionalism;

    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