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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"human-environment relations"”.
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Theorizing the anti-avant-garde : invocations of phenomenology in architectural discourse, 1945-1989
… on Postmodern architecture to include issues of human-environment relations, such as the social function of traditional building practices, and place-bound identity politics. At present their invocations of phenomenology are often charged with a naive essentialism generally understood to be …
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Forced Removal and Social Memories in North-western Zimbabwe,c1900-2000
… it gathers memories of relocation and of the environment, and analyzes how they were entangled with each other in a historical perspective. It then examines the impact of these memories on constructions and contestations of social belonging and identity in Rengwe after resettlement. It argues …
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Farming bees in a dynamic social-ecology: An ethnographic exploration of knowledge practices among commercial bee farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa
… have historically positioned mind and body, human beings and nature, humans and non-humans as essentially different or separate from each other (Thrift 2004; Haraway 2008). The methodological recommendation is that, as social theorists, we carefully observe knowledge practices and allow …
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Labouring (in)visibilities: the fear of collapse among workers in a Gobi Desert mine (Mongolia)
… explores the ways in which a non-organic working environment transforms the human condition at multiple levels. To do this, I look at workers’ health, labour dynamics and political economy at the Oyu Tolgoi mine, one of the largest recently opened underground copper and gold mines in the world, …
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The Lure of Origins : An Inquiry into Human-Environmental Relations, Focused on the ”Neolithization” of Sweden
… and so-called activity 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 …
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The Impact Of Spatial Design On Teacher Communication: A Case Study
This study is a pre- post case study in two elementary schools examining the impact that school design can have on the informal communication of teachers. In the fall of 2012, students and teachers from two schools in northeastern United States were moved from schools with traditional, …