GEOS2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Pachamama, Whanganui River, Yasuni National Park

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Geoscience
• Course: GEOS2121
• Professor: Sophie Webber

Document Summary

Explore alternative solutions (non-state, non-market measures) to addressing climate change justly. Recall, our ideas about nature, environments, wilderness, are socially constructed: ex. National parks = socially constructed with arbitrary boundaries. Ideas of what is natural and wilderness are socially constructed. Ideas of nature vary from worldviews and individuals. Western understandings of nature have been dangerous for indigenous peoples in settler- colonies such as australia: removing access of indigenous communities to the land they have nurtured. Indigenous communities have a different ontology, or understanding of what nature is, than that of western understanding. Indigenous peoples = (cid:862)guardians(cid:863) of nature: however, it is also important to recognise that there is no one single indigenous group. Different indigenous communities have different ways of nurturing the land: despite their effort, there is no legal framework accepted by the broader society that recognises their status and ownership of the land (to speak on behalf)