ERST 3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward Said, Environmental Justice, Wolfgang Sachs

• School: Trent University
• Department: Environmental & Resource Studies
• Course: ERST 3601
• Professor: Stephanie Rutherford

Document Summary

Deine poliical ecology, case study: famine, schubert reading and three diferent approaches to pe, poststructuralism, an analysis of how things are being discuss and the wider implicaions of that. Example how does scieniic discourse impact what we view as important (ex. Endangered animals) and need to analyze the moivaions behind the discourses: gender, rights based, major insituional actors in the oil sands, oil as ontology, arrow of progress, discourses, strategic realism, techno-utopianism, apocalypic environmentalism. Imperialism vs. colonialism (post) colonialism-why is it in bracket? a: development creates binary, understand the power of discourse and how it relates, truman"s 4th point, modernizaion and dependency theory f. Famine reading and davis reading: brundtland deiniion of sustainability, one world discourse, how it relates to the discourse of sustainable thought, wolfgang sachs reading, home perspecive, astronaut perspecive and contest perspecive c. Savannah people (fairhead and leech: conservaion or enclosure, briish conservaion.