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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ecological relations"”.
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Oli Aenaguri’ai: An ethnography of socio-ecological relations and contemporary change in Baelelea, Solomon Islands.
… presents a story circumnavigating the social and ecological relations and contemporary changes in Baelelea inland villages on Malaita in the Solomon Islands. The undertaken anthropological and ethnographic study draws on both traditional and contemporary lifeworld of the Baelelea people living in …
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Political ecologies of encounter: mapping enclosures and disruptions in food access
… a tactic of governance that shapes human-nature relations in specific ways. I demonstrate how these acts of enclosure bring to the fore certain ecological relations in ways that uphold dominant systems of power, while obfuscating other ecological relations. This allows me to theorize encounters …
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Quirimbas: A society reconfigured by nature
… resulting in processes of disruption of socio-ecological relations. By using the Quirimbas National Park in Mozambique as a case study, this thesis seeks to understand how nature has been used as an instrument for the social and political stratification of society. The thesis engages with the …
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Sprawling Fields and Food Deserts: An ontological exploration of food and farming systems in Ohio
… that the neoliberal imaginary orders social and ecological relations at both the international and domestic levels. This ordering perpetuates and justifies the continued exploitation of both labor and land and is based on ontological separation of human and ecological systems. This imaginary has …
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Film Practices for the Inclusion of the More than Human in the Representation of Cultural Landscapes
… there has been a move to bring up to date the relationship between lens-based media and the world. Authors such as Juri Parikka and Sean Cubbit have offered geological and environmental accounts of media art. However, there has been a debt in lens-based media practice regarding the production …
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Plain & Simple: The Will to Live Sustainably in an Unsustainable World
… the ability to form intimate social as well as ecological relations in their community. The observations are recorded in a narrative form and contribute to the growing knowledge base of sustainability as well as resilience studies. The lack of sustainable practices on a large scale in our …
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The plantation network : Brazilian bioenergy science and sustainability in the global South
… how bioscientists are leveraging postcolonial ecological legacies into the basis for what they envision as a sustainable future. In Brazil, scientists from different disciplines are reengineering sugarcane-a crop central to the colonial project-at molecular, organismic, and economic scales in …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… links between environmental change, shifting ecological relations between human and non-human communities, and the everyday lives, practices and economies of hacienda laborer families. To do so, this research integrates archaeological, archival, and ethnographic methods that situate …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: the Tsitsikamma community renewable wind farm story
… critically, ongoing injustice and extractive relationships are likely to be perpetuated. The aim of this thesis is to show that alternative renewable energy transitions as responses to global warming need to be informed from a relational perspective. Values that are respectful, regenerative, …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: The Tsitsikamma Community Renewable Wind Farm Story
… critically, ongoing injustice and extractive relationships are likely to be perpetuated. The aim of this thesis is to show that alternative renewable energy transitions as responses to global warming need to be informed from a relational perspective. Values that are respectful, regenerative, …
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Soils, Symbiosis, and Succession: Eco-centric Care in Eastern Ontario
This thesis explores human relationships to soil in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Through 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with biologists, ecologists, gardeners, farmers, and natural historians, this thesis is an inquiry into the entanglements between soil and human life. My interlocutors, who I …
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The biopolitics of violence in the drama of the Niger Delta
… of water" as a site of socioeconomic and ecological relations with the people who inhabit the Delta terrain. In the event of oil modernity, these spaces and relationships are reframed in the material transformations of the region’s landscape and environment from a site of decay and …
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Plants And Foodways Of The Standing Rock Nation: Diversity, Knowledge, And Sovereignty
… confirm that elders have adapted to social and ecological change in the past, and that their knowledge is inherently responsive to highly variable weather patterns in the Great Plains. The diversity of knowledge within communities is a source of adaptive capacity that should be reinforced in the …
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Negotiated ecologies: Indigeneity and ecocriticism in 19th century Bolivia and Chile
… of ways, a pivotal time period with regards to ecological relations in the Andean region. During the 19th century, food production became more mechanized, the introduction of the steam engine led to faster transportation across great expanses, and an intensification of resource extraction in the …
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Behavioral ecology of coral reef fishes at spawning aggregation sites
… an extensive investigation of the behavioral and ecological relations between spawning reef fishes, predators and their environment at a spawning aggregation site. Many hypotheses have been proposed regarding the adaptive nature of different diel reproductive cycles observed in coral reef fishes. …
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The Lure of Origins : An Inquiry into Human-Environmental Relations, Focused on the ”Neolithization” of Sweden
… theory) on the nature of human/environmental relations, focusing on three kinds of human-environment relationships: human organisms and biological environments, human persons and artifacts, and human beings and other beings in the context of symbolism. The dissertation is written from the …