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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"political ecologies"”.
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Vibrant Risks: Scientific Aquaculture and Political Ecologies in China
This dissertation examines how the dissemination of science in shrimp aquaculture is intertwined with issues of sustainability and risks in south China. In the Leizhou Peninsula of Guangdong Province, shrimp aquaculture took off in the mid-1980s with the dissolution of collective farming, when …
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Political ecologies of encounter: mapping enclosures and disruptions in food access
… efforts within broader economic and political landscapes. In doing so, I demonstrate how food access can be conceptualized in terms of global contours and local manifestations. I draw on the work of Anna Tsing, Karl Polanyi, Jason Moore and Bikrum Gill, to develop a political ecology …
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Mexican Technoscientific Arts, 2000-2015: Art and Science, Machine Inventions, and Political Ecologies
… machine artworks, and the assumption of critical political positions.</p> <p>Through the engagement with specific scientific disciplines, the development of invention-like artworks that produce autonomous machines, and the assumption of critical political postures via the aesthetic possibilities …
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Understanding political ecologies of land use change using household surveys in Mankweng, South Africa
… This paper documents the historical and political pressures affecting Mankweng as the township progresses into the 21st Century. Household surveys were conducted in 2005 and 2006 in order to understand the geographic relationships of the area. This study found household surveys to be …
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EMBODIED POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF HEALTH: A CASE STUDY OF ALCOHOL AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN THE UPPER WEST REGION OF GHANA
This research is a case study informed by qualitative methodologies examining perceptions of the misuse of an unregistered gin {akpeteshie), and it's role within the promulgation of hepatitis b in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Four research objectives are addressed: 1) to describe the nature of …
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Plants, food and the repurposing of urban nature: the geographies of foraging and landscape in London
… some of this insight to the situated histories, ecologies and knowledges at work in London. While political ecologies, and urban political ecologies, provide a valuable theoretical basis for addressing issues of access to nature, the status of the urban forest, and different epistemic traditions, …
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The Black Body in Arctic Space: Revisioning Racialised Landscapes in the Films of John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien
… racialised landscape by examining the political and aesthetic strategies at play in the respective films. This research argues that these artworks simultaneously reclaim the Arctic from an exclusively white history and renegotiate the territory’s position within postcolonial discourse. …
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Path Dependency or Path Creation? Transitions in Policy Ideas and Reform Strategies in Contemporary New Zealand Pension Politics
… strategic response to different pension political ecologies and embodying the country's autonomy in welfare state development against the backdrop of globalization. The study also highlights the evolution from the ideological confrontations of the two major parties on pension reforms in …
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'Tides of Change': The Political Ecology of Belonging and Conservation on Lord Howe Island
This thesis examines the political ecology of belonging and conservation on Lord Howe Island, Australia. Lord Howe Island is a place of outstanding natural beauty, immense terrestrial and marine biodiversity, rare endemic species and, as a result, intensive scientific and environmental conservation …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
This thesis investigates the landscapes and ecologies of epidemic disease, and how they shape, and are shaped by, urban politics in the postcolonial city. Recent outbreaks of dengue fever, chikungunyia, and zika, and the proliferation of insect vectors, in cities in the global South are a reminder …
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Vectors of Health: Epidemics, Ecologies, and the Reinvention of Mosquito Science in Brazil
… mosquitoes to make scientific and political claims. Overall, my research shows that national ideologies of belonging are intertwined with modes of knowledge and power that shape relations between humans, and between humans, mosquitoes, and microbes. What, I ask, are the different …