Essays about: "utopias"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word utopias.

  1. 1. Imagining and Enacting Desirable Futures : A Study of French Eco-Communities

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Hélène Clouet; [2023]
    Keywords : Eco-communities; imaginaries; transformative change; local change; desirable futures; Écolieux;

    Abstract : This thesis departs from the assumption that the current socio-ecological crises require new and alternative imaginaries as well as lifestyle changes. Following a qualitative research method, seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with eco-community members and analysed thematically to determine their motivations, values and beliefs, and search for a potential common imaginary. READ MORE

  3. 2. The realistic idea to be a dreamer : using utopias in landscape architecture to enable hope for a different future

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Beatrice Palmquist; [2023]
    Keywords : utopian landscape architecture; hope; speculation; future; utopia; storytelling;

    Abstract : This paper investigates whether utopia can be a lens in landscape architecture to open the imagination toward possible outcomes of the future. The springboard for the subject is a call for hope as it is the main ingredient driving change in our society. While hope is a vital resource for progression, it also demands certain conditions to thrive. READ MORE

  4. 3. Cromwell on the Moon; Or, Printing, Popularity, Persuasion : An Account of Text Reuse Patterns and Eighteenth-Century Utopian Thinking

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Kira Sophie Hinderks; [2023]
    Keywords : Utopias; Text Reuse; Intellectual History; Eighteenth Century; ECCO; Print Culture;

    Abstract : This thesis approaches eighteenth-century utopian thinking from a new methodological angle, namely by utilising the Reception Reader, an open-access text reuse detection tool, to study a sub-corpus of 39 utopian works available in ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), the largest collection of digitised eighteenth-century texts printed in the British and Irish Isles. As the first study of text reuse in utopian thinking, this thesis shows that text reuse detection is a viable method for gaining new insights into eighteenth-century utopian thinking. READ MORE

  5. 4. Evaluation of the effectiveness of narcotics policies by the Swedish Government

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Amit Kumar Singh; Barjinder Kaur; [2023]
    Keywords : Evaluation of narcotics; Substance misuasge; Mortality;

    Abstract : Swedish news media are questioning whether Sweden's zero-tolerance drug policy can be sustained. Even in northern Europe, governments seldom take such a strong stance, and the UN has criticised Sweden's "balanced health and human rights strategy. Sweden's tough attitude is one factor. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Dissatisfaction of Utopia in Iain M. Banks's Culture Novels

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Björn Carlsten; [2022]
    Keywords : utopia; science-fiction; Iain Banks; the Culture; teaching;

    Abstract : The Culture is a utopian civilization that features in the science-fiction novels of Iain M. Banks that has some claim to be as comprehensively satisfactory and universal in its appeal as possible. READ MORE