ESTC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kalahari Desert, San People, Conservation International
26 Dec 2017
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Estc36 lecture 3 - histories of the environment. Far from being the one place on earth that stands apart humanity, it is quite profoundly a human creation. Indeed, the creation of very particular human cultures at very particular moments in human history (cronon). Nature and humanity are reflections of each other. To speak of man intervening in natural processes is to think he could he could avoid it. An image: refers to graphic descriptions as well as figures of speech and recurring ideas. Contemporary images of the amazon are limited and dangerously exclusive. The amazon is seen as a vast store of natural wealth that remains inaccessible for the moment but promises extraordinary transformative potential. Depictions of amazonia in the 1970s and 1980s: Amazon was seen as a nightmarish and dangerous jungle". The people are uncivilized savages that need to be controlled.
