The purpose of this study is to investigate the philosophy, art, methods, and outcomes of the Transcendentalist movement in 19th century America, with the aim of identifying strategies for creative practice that may inspire artists and educators in the 21st century. In the intro…
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The thesis explores methods for integration of structural analysis, design and production in a digital design environment. The somewhat ambiguous title implies the ambition to make such integration in relation to the explorative phase of the design process which is described by …
To unveil the multilayered experiences which Christians undergo when engaging in nature-based experiences, this research utilized a multidimensional approach to address and further comprehend the characteristics of these moments. Specifically, this research aimed to understand h…
My research addresses our physical and psychical being in space and the space of representation, through the contrasting mediums of sculptural form, image, and text. Central to this is the photograph - understood by Vilém Flusser as a ‘technical image’, the product of an apparat…
This dissertation examines the production and consumption of nature in middle-class American holidays. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it follows the creation of new symbols and practices associated with Easter, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.…
Changing Chapultepec: Construction, Consumption, and Cultural Politics in a Mexico City Forest, 1934-1944 asks to whom does the forest belong? A study about how Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City became an emblematic space filled with didactic institutions, it argues that actors …
This study examines how the combination between image, word, and space in the texts of Ramon Llull redefine the processes of reading, thus leading to a re-articulation of translatio and convivencia in the medieval canon. The terms translatio and convivencia have traditionally be…
This dissertation explores how a number of romantic writers, Wordsworth and Whitman especially, presented themselves as prophets, claiming to speak for nature. Like biblical prophets narrating prophetic calls, these writers relate how nature called them to poetry, which raises k…
The ancient Egyptians and Dogon conceive that all elements of the universe operate in harmony. Therefore, the manner in which the Egyptians and Dogon express and experience their cosmologies must agree with this harmony. Using an African-centered approach, this study examines th…
This thesis explores the interaction between well-being and environmental volunteering. Focusing on five case study groups across Scotland, the emotional, social and physical well-being impacts of active environmental volunteer work are examined. Through an extensive ethnographi…
On account of their supposed link to nature, women in post-revolutionary France were pigeonholed into a very restrictive sphere that centred around domesticity and submission to their male counterparts. Yet this thesis shows how a number of women writers – Cottin, Genlis, Krüden…
This study undertakes an examination of the representation of nature in works of literature that it regards as early British ‘mythopoeic fantasy’. By this term the thesis understands that fantasy fiction which is fundamentally concerned with myth or myth-making. It is the conten…
The significant challenge of the twenty-first century is for humans to establish an intention of engaging nature in a relationship of mutuality. As the wounding of nature proliferates and the severity of the wounds increase, humans may recognize that the wounds of nature are sim…
This dissertation traces the history of the dialectical relationship between centre and margins in a remote mountainous region of Hunza in what is now in northern Pakistan, exploring in particular the politics of representation over time and the material consequences in the regi…
Literary critics note in passing the unmistakable presence of Nature in much African literature; Africanists, likewise, have long acknowledged the value of the environment to indigenous cultures. These two important assessments have yet to converge at a formal textual level so a…
Situated at the crossroads of literary studies, ecocriticism and political theory, Active Enchantments explores a strain of thought within American literature that understands life in all of its forms to be generated not by self-determined identities, but by interconnectedness a…
Forests throughout the world continue to be in danger as a result of human activity. Although the average rate of deforestation has recently slowed, in some countries the rate of forest degradation remains high. Currently, numerous management efforts are underway to address this…
E.O. Wilson (1984) asserted human beings have an innate tendency to be drawn into an emotional relationship with nature based on our evolutionary history. This relationship with nature has been shown to impact several aspects of psychological well-being, and also be impacted by …