Essays about: "wilderness"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 64 essays containing the word wilderness.

  1. 21. Bodies out/in Place? Unmapping Trans People’s Experience in Outdoor Activities

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Bart Bloem Herraiz; [2019-08-26]
    Keywords : Trans; Outdoor; Body Experience; Counter-geographies; Queering Methodology;

    Abstract : Scrutiny over trans people's bodies in urban contexts is continuous. This thesis develops the idea that the outdoors offers a less-gendered space for trans people, enabling and empowering them to escape self-surveillance processes and to feel freer in their gender expression/identity. READ MORE

  3. 22. Parken som inte fanns : Hagstorp i Malmö och stadens mellanrum som urban vildmark och allmänning

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

    Author : Hedvig Jansson; [2019]
    Keywords : interstites; urban wilderness; in-between places; urban voids; urban commons; urban planning; wastelands;

    Abstract : Den här uppsatsen undersöker betydelsen av ödetomter och mellanrum i staden med Hagstorp i Malmö som exempel. I uppsatsen framkommer hur ödetomter i staden görs till något avvikande, och konstrueras som icke-platser i förhållande till staden som norm. READ MORE

  4. 23. Tasmansk djävul: en art i kris : orsaker och eventuella lösningar

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Mattias Johansson; [2018]
    Keywords : Tasmansk djävul; Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; DFTD; vaccin;

    Abstract : Tasmansk djävul, Sarcophilus harrisii, är ett pungdjur som lever på ön Tasmanien utanför Australien. Det är det största rovlevande pungdjuret i världen sedan pungvargen, Thylacinus cynocephalus, dog ut i början av 1900-talet och är en ikon för Tasmanien. READ MORE

  5. 24. Performing the Nation through Nature: A Study of Nationalism and Cultural Objectification : Stories from Icelandic Northern Lights Tours

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Alexander Sallstedt; [2018]
    Keywords : cultural objectification; nationalism; Iceland; northern lights;

    Abstract : Two things are examined in this ethnography. The first regards a local stigmatization of the northern lights tourism industry in Iceland. A stigma, which this thesis argues, is related to a commercial saturation – or, pollution – of Icelandic national identity. READ MORE

  6. 25. Lord of the Rings, Lord of Nature : A postcolonial-ecocritical study of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and its implications in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Stefan Lobo Jansson; [2018]
    Keywords : Colonialism; Postcolonialism; Imperialism; Ecocriticism; Environmentalism; Pastoral; Nature; Wilderness; Development; Tolkien; The Lord of the Rings; The EFL Classroom.;

    Abstract : This essay examines J.R. READ MORE