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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Nonhuman agency"”.
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… and Eurocentric paradigms. By foregrounding nonhuman agency, the thesis underscores how ecological narratives in Palestinian and North African literature resist colonial frameworks and assert environmental resilience. Drawing on eco-postcolonialism, the research engages with concepts such as …
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Technological uncertainties and popular culture
… are examined by comparing representation of nonhuman agency in both an actor-network and a science fiction study of doors. The power identified in each approach varies from point making to lying. A case is made for considering fictional storytelling as sociology and hence, the sociological …
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The Expression and Constraint of Human Agency Within the Massively Multiplayer Online Games of World of Warcraft and Eve-Online: a Comparative Case Study
This research aims to explore the human and nonhuman means by which human agency in MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) is governed and negotiated. In this thesis a theoretical framework incorporating three theoretical perspectives is adopted to cope with the composite virtual, technical, …
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Embodied Landscapes: process and participation in filmmaking
… ways of working in landscapes with human and nonhuman participants. The research defines landscapes as multi-vocal gatherings of experiences and assemblages that interact in unfinished stories and therefore applies a ‘landscape-based approach’. Comprising filmmaking projects carried out during …
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Vibrant Risks: Scientific Aquaculture and Political Ecologies in China
… of unobservables. I examine how forms of nonhuman agency emerge from developmental schemes pushing for high-intensity production by looking at the complex dynamics between the biological materiality of the shrimp species themselves, the emergence of new pathogens, and the innovation of …