GGRB13H3 Lecture 11: GGRB05H3 Lecture 11: notes 7.18
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Lecture note ---7. 18 2017 summer next week is the last lecture and there is no tut next week. Key terms (nature, urban poetical ecology, environmental racism. People: both part of nature and produce nature. Challenges the binary of (cid:862)man(cid:863) and (cid:862)nature(cid:863) (social vs natural) A commodity is something that can be bought and sold for a profit. Considers the relationship and connection between society and nature. Challenges traditional definitions about the boundaries of cities. 1. the production of how groups of people access and experience nature (e. g. social dimensions of genders, race, class, sexuality, nationality) 2. how we experience nature is not (cid:862)nature(cid:863) but a result of unequal power relations environment racism. How industrial use negatively impacts poor and working-class communities of colour. E. g. poor, racialized neighbourhoods are more likely to be situated next to industry (chemicals, pollutants, toxins) Gm autoworkers in flint: 1978:80000, 1992:50000, 2015:7200. Group case question 2: what are the main challenges facing.
