Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Environmental humanities"”.
-
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project
… narrative, presenting my research on hidden environmental costs through a combination of text and original comics. My choice to incorporate comics reflects my aim to not only expand access beyond an academic audience but to ensure an authorial transparency that allows users to decide whether …
-
To know is to empower : Chagos institute of environmental humanities
… inflicts the greatest violence by legitimizing environmental fortification on the basis of a denial of the almost 200 years of Chagossian inhabitation. The assemblage of the military, security institutions and certain members of the scientific community, by defining the Chagos MPA as an "organic …
-
The theory of the Anthropocene: Inquiry into the ‘age of Anthropos’ between natural sciences and environmental humanities
… framework to face the current and unprecedent environmental challenges as a complement to the dominant managerial and business-centered approach. In conclusion, it shall aim to promote the idea of creating interdisciplinary educational programs where scientific and humanistic language are …
-
Living with the Zeekoevlei: an ethnography on historicizing relationships with/to plastic, wastewater and solid waste pollution
… by drawing from past and current debates in the environmental humanities, urban studies, law, geographical and historical sciences, environmental, cultural, and social anthropology. The evidence basis for this study includes experiences and relationships related by Zeekoevlei residents, archival …
-
Human and nature at conflict: a case study of Mauritius flying fox, Pteropus niger
… needs to be addressed as a long-term solution. Environmental humanities concepts such as multi-species thinking, political ecology, ecocentrism versus anthropocentrism, storytelling to create new ecological narratives and urban ecology are used to frame the discussion of this case study.
-
Our Ice Age: The Geohistorical Imagination in the Northern Hemisphere
… Hemisphere” contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities about the historical and narrative significance of climate change by examining representations of the ice age, a relatively recent geological moment that began 2.5 million years ago and continues, according to …
-
The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological
… contemporary American personal essays in an environmental mode in order to illuminate the boundaries between “self” and “planet.” It does so with an eye toward ecological devastation—namely, the violent effects of global warming—because I sense that thinking about the essay can help us better …
-
The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex
… wetlands have become a priority in the field of environmental management, this dissertation traces the rhetorical ecology of one such contested site (the Meadowlands), highlighting the role of public and professional texts as agents of both knowledge production and landscape change. To that end, …
-
Urban perceptual modeling : a speculative framework for artistic intervention/
… in urban planning, architecture, and the environmental humanities have pointed towards the ways in which contemporary cities are generating increasingly complex images, deploying a range of computational technologies, regulatory frameworks, and social norms which are less legible to people …
-
Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails
… fields of Border and Migration Studies and the Environmental Humanities, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy common notions of …
-
Ebbs and flows: more-than-human encounters with the Cape Flats Aquifer in a context of climate change
… and socio-ecological crisis. Researching in the environmental humanities between 2017 and 2020, I situate my study in Cape Town, South Africa, where the fluctuations between water's abundance and absence—as evidenced by the 2018 drought—have necessitated new approaches to ontology and …
-
Atrazine: a lively chemical journey
Atrazine is a widely used pesticide, particularly popular in corn plantations for its herbicidal properties of killing and preventing the growth of certain weeds and grasses. Evidence of its neurotoxicity, hormone disruption and reproductive toxicity led the EU to ban the chemical in 2003. Despite …
-
Feast Your Eyes: An Exploration of Our Consumption of Whales
In an era where the urgency of climate change is paramount, this research delves into the obscured history of whale consumption and its implications for the South Durban Basin communities. As the global community grapples with the escalating challenge of climate change, proactive measures to …
-
Navigating extreme weather events: An anthropological investigation
The aim of this study was to investigate how do people respond to extreme weather events (EWEs), paying special attention to heavy rainfall. The data and literature gathered unearths strategies and tactics embedded in the social structure of the area of Crawford. These strategies and tactics are …
-
The Wall: Exploring inequality, waste and hope in Vrygrond and the adjacent Capricorn Business Park (Cape Town, SA)
… across the wall, in an effort to improve the environmental and social conditions of this area, further contributing to a resiliency against climate change. Using qualitative methods and participant observation, the study provides narrative accounts of life in Vrygrond, as mediated through a …
-
The hydro politics of living with urban wetlands in Zimbabwe: pasts, presents and future
Urban wetlands are important ecosystems that support both nature and people, but they are under threat from growing cities, climate change, and economic challenges. This thesis looks at how people interact with wetlands, focusing on the power, policies, and everyday actions that shape how wetlands …
-
Estimating minimum thresholds of natural vegetation for the integrated management and protection of water quality in South African catchments
Despite multi-level commitments to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), many of South Africa's water quality problems are attributable to the negative impacts of anthropogenic land use on water quality. Academics and policymakers have warned that unless action is taken to improve water …
-
Construction of personhood within Xhosa ethnicity: critical perspectives mediating state and community conflict over natural resources
… approach to conservation could advance environmental justice without compelling the community to negatively negotiate, as is currently the case, their cultural practices or erode their entanglement with nature. The contribution of this study lies in challenging the narrative or …
-
A systematic methodology toward creating spatial quality in urban settings
… methodology developed by Sondheim for assessing environmental impacts incorporates the necessary features for adaptation to new urban settings and resolves the problem of polling divergent priorities without requiring discussion or consensus amongst participants. The matrix procedures of the …
-
Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
The global North has a discursive hold telling us how digital labour platforms impact workers. The fear inherent in this discourse comes from the fact that many global North workers are faced with only ‘casualized' platform work rather than job opportunities that come with career progression, …
Page 1 of 3