GGR223H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Discourse Analysis, Food Miles, Rachel Carson
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Takes an explicitly normative approach (priorities of decisions), rather than claims of objective disinterest; history of science and ways of knowledge. Apolitical ecology: tendency to view environment/social relations in technical sense, thus created response/critique called apolitical ecology. Politics of who gets mapped where; explain dominance of narrative; class structure determined leisure time to inhabit nature conditions that enable one to interact with nature. Discourses (cid:862)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374)s(cid:863) of represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)s, (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)es, stor(cid:455)li(cid:374)es, (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts, (cid:373)etaphors, a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s that reflects and reproduces worldviews. Be(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:862)(cid:374)aturalized(cid:863): origi(cid:374)s forgotte(cid:374), assu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374)s (cid:374)ot see(cid:374); fro(cid:373) (cid:862)stories(cid:863) to truth (cid:894)e. g. have someone stand at front to teach while others listen) Map becomes technology that opens up possibilities where people of higher social ranking are exposed to more favourable location. Contains common sense ways of knowing, valuing and doing for ex. Knowing what one likes without knowing how to explain why, or seeing any reason to do so.
