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111	RÅ - ett undersökande av kulturens skapande av naturen : fri vild otämjd förvildad upphetsad behärskad odlad lugn tam Nordén, Hilma January 2021 (has links) RÅ är ett kandidatarbete i text och skulptur som utforskar skogen Vilken känsla är det som fyller kroppen när den befinner sig omringad av träd, långt från andra människor? Vad definieras som skog och vad får inte göra det? Motsatsen till det mänskliga, motsatsen till det tama. Vilka myter om skogen tror vi på, hur påverkar det vårt agerande mot den? Var finns naturen kvar i oss människor? Finns det verkligen gränser mellan tam och vild, trygg och farlig, ordnad och kaos, inne och ute, innanför gården och utanför vägen. Mänsklig eller djurisk, förförisk, eller farlig. Det är i gränslandet det magiska föds, där skogen är vild och vacker. textil konstfack sagor sägner skogsrå ekokritik skogen folktro natur magi trollskog virkning hantverk textil skulptur hon väsen antropocentrisk rådjur ull garn konst sagoberättande mystik Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst Arts Konst Design Design
112	More than four-legged vehicles? : The representation of horses in Dragon Age: Inquisition and Star Stable 1: Autumn Riders Isaksson, Hanna, Wahlberg, Tove January 2021 (has links) This thesis investigated the representation of horses in the video games Star Stable 1: Autumn Riders and Dragon Age: Inquisition from an ecocritical lens. It applies the method of close reading to the game research field to analyse the representation of horses in video games and how that representation can be objectifying. The study finds that by framing horseback riding as the primary aspect of the horses the game design in these two games prioritises an anthropocentric view, where horses are modelled after their value to humans. This game design perspective can be seen in the lack of non-riding related behaviours, lack of non-rideable horses and in the interfaces and language use found in the games, as well as the extradiegetic horse call mechanic used in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Star Stable 1: Autumn Riders includes some game design choices that portray a greater feeling of subjectivity in horses. Some ways it does this is by modelling autonomy in horses by avoiding perfect obedience in riding mechanics or including player affordances related to the care of horses. The conclusion points to that by representing horses as subjects rather than objects game designers can encourage a game feeling of respect and cooperation in players, as well as the potential for future research of horses in games to study emotional game design. / Denna studie har undersökt representationen av hästar i spelen Star Stable 1: Autumn Riders och Dragon Age: Inquisition genom ett ekokritiskt perspektiv med hjälp av närläsning, samt hur representationen av hästar kan vara objektifierande. Genom att framställa ridning som det primära med hästar så prioriterar speldesignen en antropocentrisk vinkel där hästens värde kopplas till vad de kan göra för människan. Detta perspektiv kan ses i bristen på beteenden hos hästen som inte kan kopplas till ridning, bristen på icke ridbara hästar samt i spelens gränssnitt och språkbruk. I Dragon Age: Inquisition kan det även ses i spelets extradiegetiska “call mechanic”. Star Stable 1: Autumn Riders inkluderar viss speldesign som representerar subjektivitet i hästar, till exempel porträtterar spelets hästars autonomi genom att inte låta hästarna lyda spelaren till fullo samt att inkludera alternativ för spelaren angående hästomsorg. Studiens slutsats poängterar att genom att representera hästar som subjekt snarare än objekt så kan speldesigners skapa en spelkänsla av respekt och samarbete hos spelaren och att det finns utrymme för framtida studier av hästar i spel att forska om emotionell design. video games animal studies ecocriticism horses representation objectification dataspel djurstudier ekokritik hästar representation objektifiering Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Gender Studies Genusstudier Sociology Sociologi Other Social Sciences Annan samhällsvetenskap
113	Myren och moderniteten : om natur, tid och plats i Sara Lidmans roman Hjortronlandet / Mire and Modernity : On Nature, Time and Place in Sara Lidman's novel Hjortronlandet Sandström, Emelie January 2022 (has links) With this essay I aim to illustrate the simultaneous tension between and entanglement of narratives of mire and modernity in Sara Lidman’s novel Hjortronlandet. Both mire and modernity are understood wide concepts; as temporal as well as spatial markers relating to nature. Through the theoretical frame of Kate Soper’s What is Nature?, Yi-Fu Tuan’s Space and Place and Doreen Massey’s Space, Place and Gender I explore how concepts of nature, time and place are conceptualized, discussed and rewritten in the novel. The analysis shows that nature, time and place are simultaneously understood through narratives and through the intimate experience of material surroundings. Narratives are thus discussed and rewritten when applied to new material surroundings, and the natural surroundings are experienced through already established narratives. Hjortronlandet explores the lives of poor settlers in northern Sweden during the first half of the 20th century in their attempt to convert their allotted wetland to farmland. Throughout the novel the propaganda narratives of the Swedish state clash with the settlers’ intimate experience of place and natural surroundings. All the while, the settler project is undertaken on behalf of the state and plays a part in the creation of a unified modern state. I argue that though an exploration of the perceived dichotomy of mire and modernity presented by the state the entanglement of the two concepts is made visible in the novel. By examining ostensibly contrasting positions I conclude that the novel exposes the untenable approach of the modern state to material surroundings. Sara Lidman Hjortronlandet ecocriticism spatiality nature space place time Kate Soper Yi-Fu Tuan Doreen Massey Sara Lidman Hjortronlandet ekokritik rumsuppfattning i litteraturen natur rum plats tid Kate Soper Yi-Fu Tuan Doreen Massey General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
114	Jag vandrar ensam bland molnen : En ekokritisk analys av "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" och "Alone" / I wander alone among the clouds : An ecocritical analysis on "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Alone" Pettersson, Ebba January 2021 (has links) This essay is an ecocritical analysis on William Wordsworths “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and Edgar Allan Poes “Alone”. It investigates the depiction of nature, the space within nature poetry and the common theme of loneliness in the poems. The ecocritical perspective plays the main part of this essay because of the similarity between the ecocriticism and romantic poetry in the upliftment of nature, and the erasure of the dividing line between human and nature. The main material is Timothy Mortons Ecology without nature, Jane Bennetts Vibrant Matter and Scott Knickerbockers Ecopoetics. The results of the essay show how the depiction of nature contributes to the representation of the poet’s emotion and relation to nature and the past. It shows how the space, the distance between human and nature, maintains because we can’t get closer to nature than through figurations, anthropomorphisms. It also shows how the loneliness further establishes the space and is quite different between Wordsworth and Poe, whereas Wordsworth doesn’t feel as alone as Poe because of his closer relation to nature. William Wordsworth Edgar Allan Poe I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Alone ecocriticism romanticism nature poetry William Wordsworth Edgar Allan Poe I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Alone ekokritik romantiken naturdiktning General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
115	Människan vattnar Arrakis : En ekokritisk läsning av Dune: Messiah / Humans watering Arrakis : An ecocritical reading of Dune: Messiah Njurin, Sofia January 2023 (has links) I Dune: Messiah (1969) sker en förändring av klimatet, en terraformning som människan initierar. Vatten introduceras i rikliga mängder på planeten Arrakis och detta påverkar planetens ekologi såväl som människans kultur. Uppsatsen granskar Frank Herberts roman genom att teoretiskt utgå ifrån ett ekokritiskt perspektiv och tematiskt ifrån vatten, dess varande och relation till människan samt planeten. Människans medvetenhet av sig själv som en art på planeten och sin kulturella koppling till både planeten och vatten är centralt i analysen. Klimatförändringen som sker när människan terraformar planeten och hur detta påverkar människan behandlas också. Även postkolonialism väger in i analysen. I Dune: Messiah är vattnet, människan och planeten starkt kopplade till varandra. Människan utgår från sin antropocentriska världssyn och betraktar planeten som en plats vilken kan förbättras till människans fördel. Eftersom fremenfolkets kultur är djupt grundad i naturen skapar terraformningen av planeten en identitetskris. Kulturen blir kopplingen som får människan att vilja bevara planeten som den är. Vattnets värde kulturellt men även som valuta gör den till en maktskapande vara. För människan är terraformningen en strävan mot förbättring, vilket speglar de teman av stora strukturer som finns genomgående i Dune-serien. Den här långsiktiga visionen som Frank Herbert målar upp, avbildar människan med en större medvetenhet, en möjlighet att tänka stort. Jag menar (likt andra inom ekokritiken) att detta större tänkande är en väg framåt som ger mänskligheten ett större perspektiv – därmed förståelse av – ekologiska förhållanden. / In Dune: Messiah (1969) the climate changes due to terraforming caused by humans. Water is introduced on the planet Arrakis, and this affects the planet’s ecology as well as the people’s culture. This paper is an exploration of Frank Herbert’s novel, theoretically anchored in ecocriticism and thematically in water, its nature of existence, relationship to humankind and the planet. Humanity’s awareness of themselves as a species on the planet, and their cultural connection to both the planet and water is central to the analysis. The climate-change which occurs when humanity terraforms the planet and how this affects humankind is also touched upon. Post-colonialism also plays a role in the analysis. Water, people, and the planet are strongly connected to each other in Dune: Messiah. Humans see the planet as a place which can be improved to their own benefit due to their anthropocentric worldview. Because the Fremen culture is deeply rooted in nature, an identity-crisis occurs when the planet is terraformed. It is culture that enables humans to want to preserve the planet as it is. Water is a resource that creates power due to its cultural and economical value. The terraforming is humanity aiming for improvement, which mirrors the themes of larger structures that can be found continuously in the Dune-series. This long-term vision which Herbert paints, pictures humans with a broader consciousness, a capability to think in a larger magnitude. This I (as others within ecocriticism), consider to be a path forwards which offers a broader perspective – therefore an understanding of – ecological conditions. anthropocentrism biocentrism terraforming ecocriticism Dune Dune: Messiah Frank Herbert Consciousness nature thing-power deterritorialization antropocentrism biocentrism terraformning ekokritik Dune Dune: Messiah Frank Herbert medvetenhet natur thing-power deterritorialisering General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
116	L'union fait la force (géologique) : une analyse écocritique des Fourmis de Bernard Werber / (Geological) force in unity : an ecocritical analysis of Empire of the ants by Bernard Werber Sebbfolk, Annie January 2019 (has links) The paper is an ecocritical analysis of the Empire of the ants, a book written in 1991 by Bernard Werber. Through this green reading, the author seeks to better understand how climate change is created from a social point of view and why, by inherence, it is so difficult to avert. As the book is largely a juxtaposition of the human society and that of ants, the author compares the two species in order to determine which one is better equipped to tackle climate change, as well as which factors, cultural, political or biological, allow for the necessary measures to be taken. The study finds that the complexity of climate change exceeds our understanding of time and space, making it impossible for us to imagine and consequently tackle in any satisfactory manner. Though ants display features superior to ours when it comes to carrying out this task, the study further concludes that there is an accompanying moral dilemma to such actions, as the environmentally profitable not always is in the best interest of individual lives. ecocriticism bernard werber bernard werber ecology nature ants empire of the ants environment environmentalism dark ecology anthropocene climate change global warming green reading ecofiction nature writing écocritique bernard werber bernard werber environnementalisme anthropocène fourmis umwelten écofiction écologie écologique changements climatiques environnementaux climat rechauffement climatique bernard werber ekokritik werber bernard myror ekologi natur klimatförändringarna klimathotet Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
117	Natursyn i antropocen : En ekokritisk läsning av dikter av Ingela Strandberg och Gunnar D Hansson / Representations of Nature in the Anthropocene : An Ecocritical Reading of Poems by Ingela Strandberg and Gunnar D Hansson Olsson, Vera Maria January 2020 (has links) In the Anthropocene, a new approach towards nature in poetry is emerging. This change is closely related to ecocritical theory, which is a reevaluation of the human view on, and representation of, nature. It moves away from a more traditional anthropocentric perspective to a more critical one. This can for instance be in the spirit of Arne Naess or Timothy Morton, the two main theorists used in this essay. This essay is an ecocritical close reading of two Swedish contemporary poems on nature: “När jag går i skymningsmörkret” by Ingela Strandberg (from Att snara en fågel, 2018) and “(Strandförskjutningar)” by Gunnar D Hansson (from Tapeshavet, 2017). The focus of the reading is on the representation of wild, untouched nature. The formulated questions in the essay concern how untouched nature is represented in the poems, the human relationship towards it and how the differences and similarities between the two poems relate to and transform romantic representations of nature. The conclusion is that these two very different poems exemplify the range of contemporary Swedish nature poetry. Strandberg’s poem is leaning towards a romantic or ecosofist representation of nature, whilst Hansson’s is more clear-cut ecocritical in line with Morton’s dark ecology. ecocriticism nature poetry ecopoetry contemporary Swedish poetry Gunnar D Hansson Ingela Strandberg Arne Naess deep ecology ecosophy Timothy Morton dark ecology the Anthropocene ekokritik naturlyrik ekopoesi natursyn samtida svensk poesi Gunnar D Hansson Ingela Strandberg Arne Naess djupekologi ekosofi Timothy Morton mörk ekologi antropocen Languages and Literature Språk och litteratur General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
118	Slutet är nära! : Hållbarhet, klimatångest och hotet om undergång i skönlitteratur och läromedel för årskurs 4-6 / The Eve of Destruction! : Sustainability, ecophobia and the threat of impending doom in literature and text-books for grades 4–6 in Swedish schools. Weilander, Johan, Gustavsson, Emil January 2019 (has links) Med utgångspunkt i en ökning av så kallad klimatångest bland barn, är denna studies syfte är att undersöka och analysera ekologiska frågeställningar inom barnlitteratur och läromedel för mellanstadieelever för att se hur försöken att skapa ekologiskt medvetna medborgare görs, hur ansvaret mellan barn och vuxna behandlas, hur det hållbara samspelet mellan natur och mänsklighet problematiseras och hur hotet om undergång skildras och hanteras. Analysen genomförs med hjälp av en kvalitativ textanalys av de skönlitterära verken Kometen kommer av Tove Jansson och Slutet av Mats Strandberg, samt av fyra läromedel i SO- och NO-ämnen ur serien Utkik.Resultatet visar att texterna tar upp hållbarhetsfrågor mestadels ur ett människocentrerat perspektiv, men där människan samtidigt skuldbeläggs för klimatkrisen och där barnen åläggs ansvaret för att lösa den. Balansgången mellan att aktivera barnen och utbilda dem i hållbarhet utan att orsaka klimatångest visar sig vara svår att hantera. Skönlitteraturen gör det via skildringar om undergång, och läromedlen genom att uttryckligen beskriva hotet. En medvetenhet om vilket material som väljs ut och varför är ett nödvändigt didaktiskt förhållningssätt. / With basis in the increase of so-called climate anxiety among children, the purpose of the study is to investigate and analyse ecological issues in children’s literature and text books meant for pupils in grades 4–6. We examine how pupils are required to become ecologically aware citizens, how the responsibility among children and adults is handled, how the interplay between nature and humanity is problematised and how the threat of destruction is depicted. The qualitative text analysis focuses on the two novels Kometen kommer (Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson) and Slutet (The End, by Mats Strandberg), as well as four text books of different subjects in the Utkik (Outlook) series.The result shows that the texts describe issues of sustainability from a human-centered perspective, where man is considered responsible for the climate crisis and the children are enjoined the responsibility of putting an end to it. The balance between activating the children and teaching them about sustainability, without causing even more anxiety, seems difficult to handle. The novels use apocalyptic themes, while the text books expressively focuses on describing the different factors of threat. A conscious selection of teaching material and children’s literature – what? and why? – is a necessary didactical approach. sustainability climate anxiety eco-criticism education on sustainability theme-based education Swedish language education Tove Jansson Mats Strandberg fiction children's literature text books apocalypse hållbarhet klimatångest ekokritik hållbarhetsundervisning tematisk svenskundervisning Tove Jansson Mats Strandberg skönlitteratur läromedel undergång Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier Pedagogy Pedagogik Didactics Didaktik Learning Lärande
119	Who Is to Blame? : An Ecolinguistic Analysis of the Portrayal of Human and Non-Human Animals in the Initial Phase of the Corona Crisis / Vem ska beskyllas? : en ekolingvistisk analys av skildringen av mänskliga och icke-mänskliga djur i den inledande fasen av corona krisen Wikström, Rebecca January 2021 (has links) The corona virus has spread steadily and led to consequences on a larger scale than anyone could have imagined, and it is not at all surprising that we want to find someone to hold responsible. Who is to blame for this terrible situation that we have to live through? By taking an ecolinguistic approach, primarily inspired by Arran Stibbe (2021), this study explores how human and non-human animals are being blamed for the corona crisis in a corpus based on 15 news articles. To demonstrate blame through linguistic portrayal, the data are processed through four different lenses: facticity, appraisal, erasure and salience. The study finds that both human and non-human animals in general are portrayed as being to blame for the corona crisis. However, bats are most frequently portrayed as the responsible entity and human blame is often downplayed by linguistic erasure. Ecolinguistics can convey how language establishes asymmetries between groups and uncover how those asymmetries have an effect upon a broader social context. With this in mind, the way the texts blame entities for the corona crisis has real-life consequences. Firstly, non-human animals risk being killed to reduce the spread of the virus based on shallow arguments and groundless evaluations. Secondly, human blame risks not being evaluated properly and therefore there is a risk that harmful human behaviour can continue. linguistics ecolinguistics critical discourse analysis language language studies corona Covid-19 linguistic portrayal discourse linguistic blame ecocriticism anthropocentrism lingvistik ekolingvistik språk språkvetenskap kritisk diskursanalys diskurs ekokritik corona covid-19 General Language Studies and Linguistics Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk
120	Till naturen : Ekokritiska trådar i Thomas Tidholms författarskap / To nature : Ecocritical threads in the writings of Thomas Tidholm Östling, Marie January 2021 (has links) In the following essay, I examine the ecocritical aspects of the writings of Thomas Tidholm, Swedish poet and children’s author. I argue for the existence of “green threads” that permeate the authorship, and analyse them through three thematic chapters where several of Tidholm’s texts, for children and adults, are juxtaposed in order to expand, contrast and deepen one another. The themes are: approaching the other, language and humanity and parts and unity. In my analysis I show that Tidholm continues to return to these themes throughout many different texts, exploring the difficulties and possibilities in human relationships to each otherand to nature. I conclude that even though Tidholm questions whether we truly can come close to, communicate with and fully understand others (humans or otherwise), he seems to hold the conviction that it is vitally important that we try. While the essay belongs in the field of ecocriticism, my working approach has been that of ordinary language philosophy as defined by literary scholar Toril Moi, following the works of Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell. Thus, the essay is written in a spirit of acklowledgement rather than scepticism – my aim has been to bring out important aspects of the texts and show that, when read together, those aspects are enhanced. I find this especially important since the readerships of poetry and picture books do not always overlap. Furthermore, I suggest that Thomas Tidholm can be seen as a contemporary thinker whose ideas question and seek alternatives to the individualism of capitalist modern society. Keywords: ecocritisism, Thomas Tidholm, nature, environment, language Tidholm Thomas Tidholm Anna-Clara Tidholm ekokritik natur miljö språk poesi bilderböcker En som du inte känner Lanas land Meningen Rösterna från Avocadobergen Jordlöparens bok Friluftsliv i strandområden Toril Moi Wittgenstein vanlig språkfilosofi General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap

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