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Feminist approaches to global environmental change
Vačkářová, Davina Elena ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (advisor) ; Dvořáčková, Jana (referee)
Feminist approaches to global environmental change Davina Elena Vačkářová Abstract We are witnessing unprecedented changes at the planetary level, a phenomenon denoted as the global environmental change. Expanding academic literature and scientific assessment are documenting widespread impact of human activities on the Earth's systems. The policy response to global environmental change is represented by leading global sustainability and environmental policies which aim to decrease the human influence on planetary processes and improve well-being of all humans. Most of these policies have started to address existing gender inequalities and injustices only recently. The aim of the thesis is to critically analyse how feminist theory and gender inequality have been reflected in global environmental change and sustainability research and where they have been ignored. The guiding question is how innovative feminist conceptions can inform policy making and contribute to gender transformative action. The thesis focuses on a review of analytical frames that are useful for the feminist analysis of global environmental change. Drawing on feminist approaches, the thesis examines possible controversies within sustainability, climate change, disaster risk reduction and biodiversity policies, and analyses the selected...
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More-than-human cohabitation: gentrification, displacement and belonging
Dědková, Linda ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
More-than-human cohabitation: gentrification, displacement and belonging Linda Dědková This thesis examines displacement and gentrification, using the example of the department store Karstadt at Hermannplatz in Berlin. The ecofeminist critique of the binary division between nature and culture is central to my argument that gentrification and displacement are influenced by complex natural-cultural processes. The thesis utilizes a combination of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and affective reading of historical materials to investigate the historical interlinks between the construction of the Karstadt department store in the 1920s and the present-day situation. I argue that gentrification surpasses the architectural and demographic transformation of a neighborhood and is often rooted in intersectional oppression. Furthermore, displacement encompasses intricate more-than-human relations and processes, such as ways of shopping, and destroys complex local ecologies. Lastly, the agency of materials has a direct influence on the transformation of neighborhoods. The findings demonstrate that non-human agents can play crucial and dynamic roles in the interconnected economic, cultural, and ecological processes that facilitate gentrification. Key words: more-than-human relationships, gentrification,...
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Decolonial, and Mapuche Dialogues through Ana Tijoux: Collectivity and Voice in Artistic Practices as Fields of Action
Rodríguez Cantero, Julia Lighuen ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (referee)
Jules Lighuen Rodríguez Cantero Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Ph.D through which we could bring change. I suggest that, through Tijoux's music, we may find an principales dentro de la música de protesta hispanohablante. Su voz amplifica las luchas de múltiples subalternos (mujeres indígenas, inmigrantes, la clase obrer que el Imperialismo y colonialismo todavía perpetúan en los territorios Latinoamericanos (un económico a través de capital extranjero, oligarquías élites internas y corrupción política, así como la explotación laboral y ambiental). A continuación, sugeriré que la obra de Tijoux es útil no solo en la deconstrucción y criticismo de sistemas sociales globales basados en relaciones de nación, sino también en la reconstrucción o promulgación de posibilidades a través de las cuales se podrían generar cambios. Sugiero que, a través de su música, podemos encontrar un ejemplo sobre cómo la música puede tener un potencial pedagógico a la hora ecología de saberes, ya que es un arte que puede tener la capacidad de conectar a diferentes seres : Ana Tijoux, ecología de saberes, teorías decoloniales, (eco)feminismo, Mapuche, música, pedagogía, diálogo.
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Feminist Electrifying Art as Challenging People to (Re)think Their Relationship to Electricity
Chauvette, Daphnée ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
Feminist Electrifying Art as Challenging People to (Re)think Their Relationship to Electricity Abstract The need for decarbonization of energy production and the war in Ukraine has emphasized European's dependency over Russian oil and accelerated attention to the issues of the energy crisis in Europe. In Quebec, as electricity is powered mainly from hydropower, decarbonization has evaded proper considerations forgetting how this invasive energy production comes from and benefit settler colonialism. The pressing needs to address the energy crisis highlights its complexity and ongoing (mis)conceptions of electricity and its system within the general population. Electrical anthropologists have problematized western societies' understanding and conception of electricity as essential to (re)think our energy futures. Through an analysis of two case studies based on works of electrical art created by two women artists, this thesis analyzes how these works of art potentially challenge male dominant STEM practices by attending to the complexities and interconnectedness of electricity, its system, and the environment. The thesis argues that participants/listeners/viewers are challenged in their relationship to electricity (and its system) towards more responsible and response-able approaches. Drawing on feminist...
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Fears and fantasies in human interactions with sex robots: USA media discourse analysis 2016-2023
Gavrilova, Iuliia ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis employs a feminist critical discourse analysis to investigate the fears, desires, and pleasures invoked by sex robots in users, as well as the representation of sex robots in media discourse. Feminist critical discourse analysis is used to provide insight into the ways in which technology is shaping human sexuality and changing our perceptions of sex and love. My sample includes 59 articles published in contemporary American media between 2017 and 2023 that focus on human interaction with sex robots. This thesis examines how the current dramatic prognosis of harm of sex robot use is empirically grounded. It also identifies multiple main themes that are present in the media discourse, namely sex robots' human-likeness, future of human relationships, as well as the tendency to associate the use of sex robots with rape and pedophilia. The artificial nature of the robot in the most intimate aspects of life such as love and sex is perceived as threatening, potentially making us less human. However, there are also positive aspects of human-sex robot interaction as framed by media discourse. Sex robots allow people to have a more satisfactory sexual life even when they have difficulties to build interpersonal relationship, for example, for elderly or socially awkward people. Moreover, a rising...
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