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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"other-than-human"”.
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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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Nature Unsettled: the making of the wilderness imaginary and the Canadian settler state
… for landscapes futures engaged in decolonial and other-than-human knowledges. This work has primarily focused on the development of landscapes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains as a hinge between Indigenous dispossession and racialized migrant work regimes at the turn of the twentieth century. This …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… western thought and culture: those that oppose humans to (other-than-human) animals, and animals to the environment. The argument that the primacy of ethics must be acknowledged is central, as is the notion that bodily comportment must be engaged in ethical behaviour. Drawing parallels between …
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Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising ‘Nature Writing’ as Enquiry
… the practical and theoretical recombination of human, tree, and page. Understandings of ‘writing’, ‘nature’, and their phrasal relation in ‘nature writing’, are explored through a sustained enquiry into the reading and writing practices principally undertaken by the author (Camilla Nelson) in …
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Co-Becomings in Creative Music Workshop Practices
… take the place of individually situated humans as the basis for an understanding of subjectivity in this context that emphasizes embodiment, relationality and process. Drawing on posthuman theory, co-becomings are seen to cut across the nature-culture divide, incorporating both human and …
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Hitching my head to my heart : a lived experience study of ecological embodied cognition
… Columbia. Through spending time alone with the other-than-human world and using a deliberate practice of mindfulness to develop a participatory postmodern worldview, I seek to integrate multiple ways of knowing to complement my existing strengths of scientific, positivist understanding of the …
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The Therapeutic Effects Upon Dog Owners Who Interact With Their Dogs in a Mindful Way
… from relationships within the natural world. Humanistic and existential psychologists have suggested that a mindful connection to ourselves, to other-than-human beings, and to the natural world would enable more meaningful lives. If dogs are considered an extension of nature and those …
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Inner Spirit/Fire and Indigenous Student/Researcher Identity: Differing Spaces from an Ojibway Perspective
… power of relationships and story, and recognize other-than human “beings” and realms as part of our Earth Walk. Further, themes indicate educative institutions can become sites of reclamation for Indigenous persons and students in a Eurocentric academic environment. Thus, I situate myself within …
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Perceptions of Inseparability: A Heuristic Response to Thomas Berry's Call for Connection
… meanings underlying Berry’s statement: Humans must undertake a radical shift in consciousness in order to come to the realization that the Earth is a Communion of Subjects and not a Collection of Objects (www.thomasberry.org). It led to a holistic exploration of academic study and lived …
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Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
… a way of being, and a way of relating with other life that was and remains central to European colonial projects in the Caribbean. It is a colonial legacy that continues to define social, political, and economic relations among humans and between human and other-than-human life in the …
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Mississippian missionaries: bundling a Cahokian religious movement
… as a bundled mission comprised of missionaries (human and other-than-human), places, things, and substances relationally and co-generating a religious movement. I define the mission bundle as specific practices, places, things, powers, and substances intended for conversion to and proselytizing …
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FROM KIN TO KIND: ARMENIAN RACIALIZATION AND THE MEDIATION OF THE “HUMAN” IN THE LATE-TO-POST OTTOMAN EMPIRE
… Armenian Racialization and the Mediation of the ‘Human’ in the Late-to-Post Ottoman Empire” traces the interspecies dynamics of racialization in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish republic through the perspective of one of the empire’s ethnominority communities: Armenians. It asks who was …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… “a terrain of consciousness,” through which humans may ponder their relationships with the region and the other-than-human (Buell 83). These “terrains of consciousness” function as what Lorraine Code terms “instituting imaginaries,” as they can disrupt and defamiliarize master narratives and …
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Considering EcoJustice and place-based responses to market-oriented schooling
… individualism, racism, ability, and others to organize society in a hierarchal manner and prioritize unfettered competition within an economic framework. The power of these discourses resides in their ability to communicate systemic ideology—masking the systemic oppression inherent to …
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Politics, infrastructure and non-human subjects: The Inka occupation of the Amaybamba cloud forests
… Not only was it central to exchanges between humans, but also with the most important non-human powers of the Inka world. These powers included major landscape entities, such as the mountains (apukuna) and other kinds of earth beings (often in the form of rock outcrops, or lakes, known as …
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Modeling multiphysics of traveling wave reactor spent fuel disposal in deep crystalline host rock
… is produced in the central region of the rods than in conventional spent fuel, TWR spent fuel presents new challenges. This work studies the disposal of TWR high-linear-power-spent fuel in deep boreholes in crystalline host rock. The boreholes are 5 km deep, separated horizontally by 200 in, …
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Bodies of Knowledge: An Anatomy and Kinesiology of the American Prison Nation, 'Human'-making, and Twenty-first-century Techno-gods
… in relation to the sanctioned status of the ‘Human’.<a title="">[1]</a> Beginning with the American Prison Industrial Complex and what sociologist Beth E. Richie conceptualizes as the “prison nation,” I will show the ‘human’ as a contingent and composite status appearing along a spectrum of …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
… reader — offers stimulating ways to examine nonhuman and material activity and the interrelationships between all participants in the world of the text. This thesis adapts new materialist concepts about the effects of material objects and the distribution of agency to expand the discussion of …
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'Tides of Change': The Political Ecology of Belonging and Conservation on Lord Howe Island
… conservation attention. First discovered by humans in 1788, Lord Howe is also home to a community of about four-hundred residents who claim various forms of belonging to the Island – claims which are arranged primarily through ideas of intergenerational kinship.For some Islanders, these links …