Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies (School of): Recent submissions
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The good energy : community, ethics, and the economy in an Italian electricity cooperative
(2025-06-30) - ThesisBased on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork — conducted both online and in-person — with ènostra, a renewable energy cooperative headquartered in Milan, Italy, this doctoral research investigates the cooperative’s trajectory ... -
Archival interventions : remixing Hungarian film across political regimes
(2025-06-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines the circulation of archival footage across political regimes in Hungary. It explores the footage’s intricate archiving histories and creative reuse, which are fundamentally interconnected. It focuses ... -
Unsound visions : phantacusis as visually implied sound in silent film
(2025-06-30) - ThesisLooking back on the ‘silent era’ in cinema as synchronised sound was becoming industry standard, Benjamin Fondane asked: “Did sound lack reality, when it was only in the mind?” Counter-intuitively, sound events were not ... -
A nonstandard re-evaluation of Lewisian metaphysics for the material world
(2025-06-30) - ThesisThis Thesis is an attempt to look at the nature of the material world and some of the riddles that trouble our understanding of it from a broadly nonstandard -- or heterodox if you like -- Lewisian point of view. That is, ... -
Performing purity : the ethical worlds of public servants in Sikkim's organic conversion
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThis dissertation explores the ways in which officials engaged with the government-mediated conversion of the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim to a ‘fully organic farming state,’ a process declared complete in 2016. My ...