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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"more-than-human"”.
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minoritarian ecologies: performance before a more-than-human world
… thought and cultural understanding of the nonhuman environment or nature. The research uses a transversal practico-theoretical approach that, following posthumanist and neomaterialist elaborations of ontology and epistemology, creates a ‘material-discursive entanglement’ (Barad, 2007) of …
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Environmental Values Reconsidered: Articulating Conservation and Other More-than-human Relations
… has become ubiquitous in conservation and, more broadly, in conceptualisations of and discourses about human relations with the living world. The recently released Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment makes the overarching …
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… lived experiences of conflict still foreground human bodies as war’s main subjects and targets. Within both strategic and critical debates, the technoscientific dimension of war and its human experiences are portrayed as distinct – if not opposite – domains. On the one hand, technology often …
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Listening to Climate Change: Integrating Awareness & Acceptance Through a More-Than-Human Music
How can climate change be woven into human imagination and memory through sound? This question is investigated through the design of environmentally-activated instruments, or listening devices. Participants interface with climate through these devices, devising a new sonic form of interacting with …
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Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg
This thesis explores more-than-human entanglements of contemporary urban environments in order to develop a rearticulation of urban landscapes as spaces decidedly beyond the exclusively human. Taking its cue from the question “How do we live with urban difference today?,” such spaces, the thesis …
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Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing
… Pūku’i mobilise literary representations of more-than-human beings – plants, animals, and the land – to express resistance to the gendered impacts of settler colonialism. Through analysing Native stories from American Indian Stories, Legends and Other Writings (1921), Dreams and Thunder: …
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Sacred Plant, Sentient Earth: A Vegetal Geography of Healing in a More-Than-Human World
Plants and humans are deeply entangled, having shared intimate relationships since the beginning of time. In particular, humans have had a long history of relating with plants-as-medicines, developing emplaced healing traditions centred upon culturally-embedded ecological praxes that blur species …
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Attending to more-than-human life and loss: Digitally mediated affects of ecological citizen scientists
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Wolves, Farmers, & Capitalism: A More-Than-Human Political Ecology of Human-Wolf Relations in Italy
… doctoral thesis builds on and further develops a more-than-human political ecology, exploring the imbrication of non-human agencies with (capitalist) political economies in the coproduction of human-wildlife relations. Through a multispecies ethnography and other mixed methods, including a …
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Film Practices for the Inclusion of the More than Human in the Representation of Cultural Landscapes
In the context of the Anthropocene, 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 …
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Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
… is a theoretical and empirical journey into the more-than-human worlds of countercultural back-to-the-land farmers: radical environmentalists who migrate to rural places and take up farming as a way of living. It investigates their everyday life and relations to the land as a key dimension of …
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And The Skylarks Called Out Your Name: Posthuman Encounters with Loss Through Embracing the More-Than-Human World.
… <br/>This thesis proposes that immersion in the more-than-human world offers possibilities for an exploration of loss and its transformative potential. Loss here not only relates to personal bereavement, but also to a lack of connection with the natural world; in these post-Covid days many are …
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Ebbs and flows: more-than-human encounters with the Cape Flats Aquifer in a context of climate change
… dissertation advocates inclusive and integrated more-than-human relations as humans, technoscience, and nature become increasingly entangled in contexts of climate change and socio-ecological crisis. Researching in the environmental humanities between 2017 and 2020, I situate my study in Cape …
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Decolonizing the Story of Art in Canada: A Storied Approach to Art for an Intercultural, More-Than-Human World
… story not as the social world alone, but as our more-than-human world within which we circulate. And it draws on the most salient features of postcolonial criticism, while also acknowledging contributions from our colonial past (and present). In this vein, I interweave story and other voices …
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Be/ing Grace/d. A phenomenological exploration of spiritual encounters with the more-than-human natural world in-crisis
… the finitude of the living Earth and the more-than-human natural world of which humans are one part. Calls from the literature reveal the need for a spiritual response. This research explored lived experiences of spirituality, nature and the climate crisis as they intersect. ‘He Awa …
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The Body of the World: A Queered Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Embodied Sensation, More-than-Human Kinships and Entangled Futures
… connection science's binary understanding of the human-nature relationship which upholds colonial logics and risks perpetuating ongoing coloniality and limits its impact for addressing climate change intersectionally, this present research traced the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous and …
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Philosophical enquiry and autism: story/ing/ied bags of unexpected human and more-than-human encounters in speech-language therapy and classroom spaces
… pedagogies and interventions are embedded in human-centric ontologies that position autistic child as lacking, immature, and often incapacitated epistemologically. Drawing on critical posthumanism, notably Karen Barad's Agential Realism, the study asks: how might the community of philosophical …
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Trans-corporeal bodybuilding: an exploration of the trans-corporeal relations between South African competitive male bodybuilders and their more-than-human world(s)
… bodybuilding has long displayed a peculiar humanocentrism his/torically ingrained by a subcultural reliance on patriarchal, Cartesian, and Western tropes which discursively encode competitive male bodybuilders as the prototypical Hu/Man(ist) subject: disembodied and disembedded from the …
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How do different kinds of contemporary Anglo-American storytelling engage audiences with the complexities of human / nonhuman and more-than-human relationships in the Anthropocene?
This PhD examines the complexities of human / nonhuman and more-than-human relationships in contemporary Anglo-American storytelling. Analyzing Timothy X Atack’s podcast Forest 404, Richard Powers novel The Overstory and Hideo Kojima’s videogame Death Stranding, this thesis explores various …
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