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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"more-than-human world"”.
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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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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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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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Decolonizing the Story of Art in Canada: A Storied Approach to Art for an Intercultural, More-Than-Human World
… root of art and 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 …
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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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Rethinking Infants’ Relationship with the Outdoor Environment. Reconfiguring Our Understanding of Agentic Assemblage Intra-Action and Place.
… to the missing voices of both Infants and the-more-than-human-world. Through diffractive engagement this thesis stabilises binary thinking as it highlights the significance of recognition of the entangled nature of relationships between Infants and the-more-than-human-world. It argues for the …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… among individuals, society, and the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that placed him well beyond his literary and scientific contemporaries, Steinbeck’s contributions to modern ecological inquiry …
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Nesting in English fields : bird narratives and the re-imagining of post-war Britain
… reveals about contemporary anxieties around human identity. Starting from the assumption that people often use animals to say things they cannot otherwise articulate, it investigates whether readings that foreground the representation of the more-than-human world in both familiar and …
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Bridging Environmental Education and Nonviolent Communication: The Role of Empathy and Place in Ecological Identity From the Inside Out
… environmental education (EE) because it forges human–nature connection, fosters ecological identity, and motivates proenvironmental behaviour. While EE often cultivates empathy through experiences in nature, it rarely teaches empathic skills explicitly; conversely, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) …
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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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Almost Trued: An Urban Exploration
… on conceptions of the body, the spirit, and the more-than-human world. The author blends the personal with the scholarly to interrogate the ideologies that define how humans perceive the urban space, the narratives that construct it, and the people who enact their identities on the landscape. The …
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Ladder Fuels
… in the Pacific Northwest and all the lives—human, animal, plant—it touches. Told through the perspectives of four women, including one firefighter, as well as parts from the eyes of the forest and fire itself, the story unfolds over the course of one destructive week in early September. All …
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Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship
… our histories, our topics of study, the more-than-human world, and each other.
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
As human-caused environmental crises worsen, many young people are anxious but alienated from nature, hardly perceiving the ecosystems in which they participate. This thesis reveals that, vitally, contemporary YA fantasy novels tend to represent the senses as skills and thereby convey human …
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Teacher identity, activism, and empowerment: Entanglements with climate in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Propelled by energy from fossil fuels, human population and agency have grown exponentially over the last century, resulting in rapidly increasing and potentially catastrophic anthropogenic impacts on the coupled systems of climate, ocean chemistry, ecology, and society. Education could bring about …
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World as Other, World As Self: Beyond Dualism in Environmental Narratives
… and large scales. Conversely, understanding humans and nonhumans as entwined allows us to think and act differently with our planetary community. This view entails integrating the "self" and the "other." Instead of being antithetical to the other, the self arises through engagement with …
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What Will It Take to Standardize Consideration of the Natural Environment in Social Work in Saskatchewan?
… social justice, and the health of the more-than-human world, but the profession has been slow to act. There are recognizable gaps between considerable literature on the urgency of mobilizing the social work profession to prioritize the natural environment and the uneven ways in which …
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Animal-machine
Growing interest in the more-than-human world has sparked debate in communication and rhetorical studies about how to best approach a range of non-human entities: animals, plants, objects, machines and more. In Animal-machine, I argue that these categories do not emerge as pre-formed and discrete …
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The Place of Private Property in Land Use Law: A Relational Examination of Ontario's Quarry Conflicts
… about how we live together and with the world around us. In doing so, it shapes our relationships not only with the people around us, but with the places we inhabit and encounter. This dissertation examines how land use law structures the relations between people and the more-than-human …
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The Kleinian Subject in the Anthropocene: Posthumanism, Narration of Crisis, and the Ethics of Reparative Care
… a period marked by crises associated with human impact. I specifically bring Melanie Klein's theory of object relations to this contemporary sociopolitical context by analyzing the role of subjectivity in posthumanist theorizing, focusing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology. In …
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