CSCT 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transculturation, Deterritorialization, Alan Weisman

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 2Z03
• Professor: Susie O' Brien

Document Summary

What it means to know and care for places. Planetary thinking makes particular sense in the context of globalization- in which processes such as the rapid development of digital technology have resulted in the. Home and habitat on a global or planetary scale. Ex) sense of place and sense of planet- ursula k. heise. She calls on us to adopt a perspective of eco- cosmopolitanism. Globalization ecological awareness and environmental ethics is arguable not so much a sense of place as a sense of planet- a sense of how political, economic, technological, social, Personal experience of nature is insufficient to this predicament we(cid:495)re in. Deterritorialization, (cid:498)the detachment of social and cultural practices from their ties to place(cid:499) (cid:523)(eise (cid:887)(cid:883)(cid:524), shouldn(cid:495)t necessarily be regarded as a negative process. The scope of current environmental threats requires understanding on a planetary scale. Such an understanding must go beyond our immediate sensory impressions.