Essays about: "rationality"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 294 essays containing the word rationality.

  1. 16. Imagining Arms : Rationality and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Swedish Defense Requirements Engineering

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : John Welsh; [2023]
    Keywords : Requirements Engineering; Rationality; Science and Technology Studies; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Defense Systems;

    Abstract : Despite significant efforts at improving requirements engineering in the development of military systems, defense procurement is still plagued by expensive, well-publicized failures. Central to requirements engineering is the concept of rationality – more reason is assumed to eventually ‘solve’ the problem of defense requirements engineering. READ MORE

  3. 17. On the Production of the Humanitarian Subject : A Decolonial Exploration of Innocence

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Sarah Nefeli Lola Goosens; [2023]
    Keywords : Humanitarianism; Modernity Coloniality; Innocence; Emotions; Autoethnography; Storytelling; Decolonial Research.;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explore how humanitarian communication produces subjectivities for individuals. More specifically, it investigates how the innocent modern/colonial humanitarian subject is produced through appeals to emotions. To explore this phenomenon, this thesis develops a decolonial research approach grounded in epistemic disobedience. READ MORE

  4. 18. SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF LOCAL ENERGY TRANSITION:CO-PRODUCING LOCK-INS IN THE STUDY OF ENERGY COMMUNITY ON GOTLAND

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Orlando Loy; [2023]
    Keywords : Sociotechnical imaginaries; energy transition; energy community; Gotland; co-production; framework analysis; diffractive reading;

    Abstract : The emergence of energy communities entails the development of alternative energy systems, where consumers become active participants in the complex networks of material and semiotic actors. This paper looks at how local sociotechnical imaginaries are performed on island of Gotland, in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 19. From Green to Gold: The role of multiple logics of sustainability in shaping business value creation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Emily Angeles; Matthieu Thomas; [2023]
    Keywords : Corporate Sustainability Strategy; Green Innovation Games; Green Transformational Leadership; Institutional Logic; Organizational Change.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : With activities engendering tremendous socio-ecological impacts, the fashion system is increasingly spotlighted as one of the most unsustainable industries. In this context, many actors in the fashion system, including brands and retailers, have implemented corporate sustainability strategies. READ MORE

  6. 20. Non-dualism, natural science and what contemporary artistic practices have to say about it

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Jonathan Lystbæk Jørgensen; [2023]
    Keywords : Fine Art; HDK-Valand; Konst; Contemporary art; Bernardo Kastrup;

    Abstract : In this essay I intend to investigate what role contemporary art plays in the exploration of fundamental aspects of reality - and the importance of it. My premise for this text is that dealing with the fundamental aspects of reality has value - the way life is felt and how the world is perceived can be highly dependent on the fundamental understanding of reality. READ MORE