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31	Ett flytande paradis? : En studie om hur tropiska öar framställs i svenska resemagasin Myte, Lina, Lindh, Markus January 2009 (has links) <p>This is a study about how Swedish travel magazines write about tropical islands with a history of colonization. The study investigates how the islands of Mauritius, the Seychelles, Haiti, the Maldives, the Dominican Republic, Aruba, Zanzibar and Guadeloupe are being portrayed in four Swedish travel magazines.</p><p>Travel articles published in the travel magazines Vagabond, Allt om Resor, Res and Escape 360° during the period January 2004 to December 2009 have been analyzed through critical discourse analysis.</p><p>The study concludes that the travel magazines tend to idealize and aestheticize the tropical islands. The islands are being presented as paradises on earth. They are described as fairy tales, magical, dreams and as playgrounds for Westerners. The inhabitants of the tropical islands are being judged by how well they attend to the tourists’ needs and wishes. The inhabitants are presented as unreliable, while the tourists are presented as reliable. The inhabitants are also being portrayed as childish, exotic and primitive. </p><p>Theories about how old colonial ways of thinking continue to flourish in travel journalism are being used to give depth to the findings of the study.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> Tropical islands colonialism travel journalism travel magazines critical discourse analysis Mauritius the Seychelles the Maldives the Dominican Republic Haiti Aruba Guadeloupe Zanzibar. SOCIAL SCIENCES SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Other social sciences Övrig samhällsvetenskap
32	Accumulation of trace elements in aquatic food chains due to sea-fill activities. Mohamed, Fathimath January 2015 (has links) Elevated levels of trace elements in the environment are of great concern because of their persistence, and their high potential to harm living organisms. The exposure of aquatic biota to trace elements can lead to bioaccumulation, and toxicity can result. Furthermore, the transfer of these elements through food chains can result in exposure to human consumers. Sea-fill or coastal fill sites are among the major anthropogenic sources of trace elements to the surrounding marine environment. For example, in the Maldives, Thilafushi Island is a sea-fill site consisting of assorted municipal solid waste, with multiple potential sources of trace elements. However, there is limited data on environmental trace element levels in the Maldives, and although seafood is harvested from close to this site, there is no existing data regarding trace element levels in Maldivian diets. Following the Christchurch earthquakes of 2011, Sea-fill Municipal solid waste Trace element contamination Sediment Seawater Aquatic food chain Thilafushi Island Maldives Lyttelton Harbour New Zealand Green-lipped mussel Cockle Pipi Spotty Wrasse Cancer crab Bioaccumulation Biomagnification Trophic transfer potential MPI PTWI Risk assessment Solid phase extraction
33	Drowning in Rising Seas: Navigating Multiple Knowledge Systems and Responding to Climate Change in the Maldives Spiegel, Rachel Hannah 01 January 2017 (has links) The threat of global climate change increasingly influences the actions of human society. As world leaders have negotiated adaptation strategies over the past couple of decades, a certain discourse has emerged that privileges Western conceptions of environmental degradation. I argue that this framing of climate change inhibits the successful implementation of adaptation strategies. This thesis focuses on a case study of the Maldives, an island nation deemed one of the most vulnerable locations to the impacts of rising sea levels. I apply a postcolonial theoretical framework to examine how differing knowledge systems can both complement and contradict one another. By analyzing government-enforced relocation policies in the Maldives, I find that points of contradiction between Western and indigenous environmental epistemologies can create opportunities to bridge the gap between isolated viewpoints and serve as moments to resist the dominant climate change discourse. Climate Change Discourse Knowledge Postcolonial The Maldives Asian History Asian Studies Critical and Cultural Studies Cultural History Environmental Policy Environmental Studies Folklore Human Geography Indigenous Studies International Relations Nature and Society Relations Oral History Place and Environment Social and Cultural Anthropology Theory, Knowledge and Science

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