GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Geography, Ecocentrism, Cultural Turn
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The last two decades have witnessed a monumental shift in how cultural geographers engage with nature. It was once seen as separate, but we understand it as a social and political formation. The way geographers have seen nature has changed. The social and the natural intertwine is so hard to untangle. What do we mean natures: untouched, out of our control. We often think of humans as destroying nature. Conversation separating the nature we like fro the nature we don"t like (evans) Nature in relation to production: nature is a part of capitalist production, it helps understand how we modify the production. A certain type of landscape can be touched or no touched. What do you think is the relationship b/w humans and nature: we are inseparable. Ecocentric? (harmony with or nature in need of saving) Social? (nature is a human idea, we are actually inseparable from our environments)
