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Media Hot and Cold
In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control. Diving into the history of thermal media, from infrared cameras to thermostats to torture sweatboxes, Starosielski explores the many meanings and messages of temperature. During the twentieth century, heat and cold were broadcast through mass thermal media. Today, digital thermal media such as bodily air conditioners offer personalized forms of thermal communication and comfort. Although these new media promise to help mitigate the uneven effects of climate change, Starosielski shows how they can operate as a form of biopower by determining who has the ability to control their own thermal environment. In this way, thermal media can enact thermal violence in ways that reinforce racialized, colonial, gendered, and sexualized hierarchies. By outlining how the control of temperature reveals power relations, Starosielski offers a framework to better understand the dramatic transformations of hot and cold media in the twenty-first century.
Sustainable Development Goals and Institutions of Higher Education
This volume brings together both theoretical and case study based contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), presenting an impactful combination of authors from both developing and developed countries. While most current publications addressing the SDGs and education focus on sustainable development in general and specific topics such as climate change or energy, this book attempts to accelerate the localisation of the SDGs by presenting opportunities and innovations offered in various universities and campuses regarding SDGs localisation. The book seeks to provide an important contribution to the global dialogue...
Situating Sustainability
Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education. This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cultural histories that define environmental politics. It brings together scholars from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development to argue that it is no longer possible to talk about sustainability in general without thinking through the contexts of resea...
Nordic Welfare Cities
This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern, inclusive welfare cities. In the contemporary world, the role of cities as hotbeds for progressive change has become increasingly topical. Historical studies on how Nordic cities addressed social and environmental questions a hundred years ago and how they eventually created new and inclusive policies for the future is a useful contribution to the current debate. The concept of the welfare city is addressed and elaborated upon to analyse the attempts by urban authorities to solve the problems following industrialization and urbanization. From the late nineteenth century, municipa...
Käänteet ja kierrot
Elämme ennen kokemattomien ympäristökriisien aikaa. On kiire havainnoida, kertoa ja kuvitella uudenlaisia suhteita ympäristöön, eläimiin, kasveihin ja elementteihin. Miten kertoa tarinoita, joissa ihmisen tarpeet ja hyvinvointi eivät olisi toiminnan tavoite ja viitepiste? Miten viestiä yhdessä elämisen ja yhteismuotoutumisen merkityksistä? Kirjan monitieteisissä ja -taiteisissa artikkeleissa keskitytään kulttuurisiin ympäristömuutoksiin ja niiden kiertoihin, käänteisiin, jatkuvuuksiin ja paluisiin. Siihen, miten ihminen vaikuttaa toiminnallaan luonnonympäristöön ja miten ympäristön muuttuessa ihminen joutuu sopeuttamaan toimintaansa, mikä puolestaan vaikuttaa jälleen ympäröivään luontoon. Pohjoisiin luonnonympäristöihin ja kulttuureihin paneutuvissa artikkeleissa koetellaan taiteen ja tutkimuksen rajoja. Ennakkoluulottomilla metodologisilla avauksilla luodaan uusia polkuja ja tietämisen tapoja.
After Ice
As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice? This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investigate ice and its dynamic properties as a foundational element of Indigenous communities in the Arctic regions, as a commodity with technological and political value, and as a reflection of environmental change and the passage of time. As the future of the cryosphere is increasingly determined by human behaviour, this thought-provoking exploration envisions ice as both a phase of water and as a milieu for sensemaking. It asks us to consider how to define, describe, and materially characterize our warming world.
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