scholarly journals Exploring Representations of Nature in Literature: Ecocritical Themes in the Fiction of Satur Apoyon

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Khareen B. Culajara ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nature In Literature ◽  
Representations Of Nature

scholarly journals Virtual Reality Representations of Nature to Improve Well-Being amongst Older Adults: a Rapid Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josca Van Houwelingen-Snippe ◽  
Somaya Ben Allouch ◽  
Thomas J. L. Van Rompay
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Representations Of Nature

Abstract Poor well-being amongst older adults poses a serious health concern. Simultaneously, research shows that contact with nature can improve various facets of well-being, including physical, social, and mental well-being. However, nature is not always accessible for older adults due to mobility restrictions and related care needs that come with age. A promising strategy aims at bringing nature inside through pervasive technologies. However, so far, there is little academic understanding of essential nature characteristics, psychological processes involved, and means for implementation in practice. The current study used a three-folded rapid review to assess current understanding and strategies used for improving well-being for older adults through virtual reality representations of nature. Searches were performed across three databases, followed-up by content-based evaluation of abstracts. In total, a set of 25 relevant articles was identified. Only three studies specifically focus on digital nature as an intervention strategy for improving well-being amongst older adults. Although these studies provide useful starting points for the design and (technological) development of such environments, they do not generate understanding of how specific characteristics of virtual nature representations impact social well-being measures in particular, and of the underlying psychological processes involved. We conclude that follow-up research is warranted to close the gap between insights and findings from nature research, gerontology, health research, and human-technology interaction.

scholarly journals Southern Green Cultural Criminology and Environmental Crime Prevention: Representations of Nature Within Four Colombian Indigenous Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rodríguez Goyes ◽  
Mireya Astroina Abaibira ◽  
Pablo Baicué ◽  
Angie Cuchimba ◽  
Deisy Tatiana Ramos Ñeñetofe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Cultural Criminology ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
Peer Researchers

AbstractThis exploratory study develops a “southern green cultural criminology” approach to the prevention of environmental harms and crimes. The main aim is to understand differing cultural representations of nature, including wildlife, present within four Colombian Indigenous communities to evaluate whether they encourage environmentally friendly human interactions with the natural world, and if so, how. The study draws on primary data gathered by the Indigenous authors (peer researchers) of this article via a set of interviews with representatives of these four communities. We argue that the cosmologies that these communities live by signal practical ways of achieving ecological justice and challenging anthropocentrism.

scholarly journals Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Clemencia y la ecocrítica.

Sincronía ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (79) ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Mariana Guadalupe Bueno Ibarra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Mexican Literature ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Nature In Literature ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano’s narrative has been one of the testimonies more remarkable of Mexican literature of the XIX century. Its study suggests many ways of approach to one of the more important historic and cultural time living in Mexico. The actual work analyses from the perspective of the ecocritic theory the fundamental importance of space and nature in literature. Clemencia is a novel that inscribes in the romanticism, nature develop in an open space with notables descriptions about mountains, plants, and gardens. The Ecocritics based its study in a natural perspective and about how it comes an active part in the narration; it gives a testimony of a concrete époque and reveals the relation between human / no-human. It is in Clemencia where this characteristic works in a space, where the natural world has and gives transcendental importance, a poetic scenery, nature, conforms for the nineteenth landscape in Guadalajara city.

Nature Related Computerkunst

2012 ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
Conventional Manner ◽  
Contemporary Development

It has been generally accepted in art history that nature ranks as master and ideal of the arts. Everybody knows examples of nature-related artworks created over centuries and decades in a conventional manner. Most of the contemporary readers witnessed the invention of the computer as a tool used in natural sciences, and later, in the arts as well. As a natural scientist and curator of art exhibitions, the author of this chapter was continually involved in this contemporary development which raised a fundamental question: Would the computer as a tool be a means to generate new representations of nature related art? This would demand results that ought to be different from conventional works of art as to the conceptional creation processes as well as the output. Some theoretical backgrounds and categorizing of such creations are discussed in this chapter and then illustrated by several examples from artists participating in a series of ´Computerkunst/Computer Art’ exhibitions during the quarter of the last centuries (1986-2010). Though it might be too soon to judge computational art works concerning their importance in Art History, a closer investigation in the creational processes and social contexts seems helpful and worthwhile.

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