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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"environmental politics"”.
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PSYCHOLOGICALLY ULTIMATE BACKGROUND: THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS OF AMBIENT MEDIA
Psychologically Ultimate Background: the Environmental Politics of Ambient Media revisits the political problem and possibilities of ambient media as a tool for understanding and disrupting the problem of ambient violences like everyday chemical toxicity: modes of harm not always ruled by the …
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Worldly ecologies: Landscape, history, and environmental politics on Jeju Island
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Water and Power: The Environmental Politics of a Virginia Reservoir
… attempts to problematize the power relations in environmental administration and decision making through the analytical lens of environmental discourse and ethics. It argues that developments in environmental politics reveal a marked increase in democratic involvement through an emerging …
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Adaptation Narratives: Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Mexican Costal Communities
… explanations, and fishers’ views on local environmental changes is based on political ecology approaches to environmental narratives, and critical literature on climate change. It outlines the interaction among three environmental narratives: that produced by the Mexican government and its …
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Disciplining water – risk, environmental politics, and the return of water infrastructure
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Environmental politics in a polarized America : public mood and policy consequences
… and nationalized, what are the implications for environmental policy? This question is particularly important at the state and local levels, where many environmental policy decisions are made and implemented, but about which scholars have drawn mixed conclusions. This dissertation enters the …
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Beyond the blue horizon : the role of industry in global environmental politics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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Living the Law of Origin: The Cosmological, Ontological, Epistemological, and Ecological Framework of Kogi Environmental Politics
… activism to protect the Sierra Nevada from environmentally harmful developments. More specifically, they have attempted to raise awareness and understanding among the wider public about why and how these activities are destructive according to their knowledge and relation to the world. The …
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Ekistics, architecture and environmental politics, 1945-1976 : a prehistory of sustainable development by Panayiota I. Pyla.
… the profession's responsibilities towards global environmental exigencies. Spanning the disciplines of architectural history, environmental history, and cultural studies, the study analyzes the intellectual lineage of Ekistics' conceptions of the global environment, and the complex historical …
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Why is there no Green Party in America?: Environmental politics and environmental consciousness in the United States and West Germany
… perspectives. First, through comparison of the politics of environmental protection it will be shown how a dialogue between the state and interest groups could be established in America, while it could not in Germany. The conclusion will be drawn that different opportunity structures define …
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The (Re)emergence of eco-fascism : white-nationalism, sacrifice, and proto-fascism in the circulation of digital rhetoric in the ecological far-right.
Environmentalism is no longer the sole domain of progressive and leftist politics. A recent uptick in violent outbursts by white nationalists espousing eco-fascist political beliefs indicates a troubling trend in environmental politics. Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch shooter, and Patrick …
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Going green : sustainable mining, water, and the remaking of social protest in post-neoliberal Ecuador
… examines the reconfiguration of popular environmental politics in the context of so-called sustainable mining development in Ecuador. Progressive governments in Latin America herald sustainable mining initiatives as the lynchpin to development capable of generating revenues to finance …
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The Politics of Sovereignty: Segmentation and Stratification in International Order Today
How does sovereignty order international politics? This question has inspired a rich body of literature unpacking the concept. Nevertheless, sovereignty remains taken for granted in large parts of the discipline of International Relations (IR) and, as a result, its role in ordering international …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
… does the realism of lowered expectations for our environmental politics relate to the realism of literary representation, which has largely ceded the task of depicting environmental crisis to non-realist genres like science fiction and apocalypse? What exactly is the “reality” named by these …
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Getting beyond the lowest common denominator : Developing countries in global environmental negotiations
… countries of the South in international environmental politics. The so-called 'South'-represented in global negotiations by Group of 77 (G77)-is an unwieldy and unlikely collective made up of over 130 countries displaying dramatically different economic conditions, ideological …
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Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
Exploring both political aesthetics and the politics of aesthetics to outline an environmental ruralism for art in public spaces, this practice lead research project postulates a “complemental practice”, outlining its methodology and contexts for operation, the rural, spaces of leisure and the …
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Laboratorization of Everyday Life: Adaptations among Robots, Laboratory and Society
By investigating the social and environmental politics that are embodied in service robots, I show how both the laboratory culture and wider society expect their own respective values and environmental cultures to displace the other. This dissertation highlights the importance of understanding how …
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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
Many discourses within environmental political theory center on reconfiguring political structures to empower geographically situated populations to become public stewards of their local environments. However, in the developed world the hope for ecological self-government is doubly challenged by …
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… seek to organize and act politically around environmental issues, amidst frayed and tenuous alliances? What specific – and often contradictory – trajectories might ideas about environmental stewardship take for a number of different actors, against a backdrop of stalling out hopes and …
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