GEOG203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Discourse Analysis, Narrative Inquiry, Ecosystem Services

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG203
• Professor: Daniel Scott

Document Summary

Discourses of development and the social construction of nature. Describe two examples of some common discourses or social constructions of the global south and its people. In certain social contexts, we tend to we take certain concepts for granted. Explain this statement in relation to the concept of social construction, using at least one example. Describe an example relating to the challenges of feeding a growing global population to illustrate the notion that how environmental problems are explained is the foundation for how solutions are conceived . European belief in a non-transformed new world fit nicely with territorial ambitions. A guiding assumption for colonial spanish, french, and english settlers: land and resources are possessed only insofar as they are put to use. Unused land was, for europeans, unowned land, available for improvement under colonial rule. Preconceived notions of productive land" vs. wasteland. Does it matter that the europeans were wrong about the pristine emptiness that they assumed existed in the.