GGR223H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Discourse Analysis
29 Aug 2016
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Political: general approach to important questions about environmental issues that are used in research. Apolitical: focuses on broader systems, views ecological systems as power- laden rather than politically alert, explicitly normative approach rather than claims of objective disinterest: may also be known as mainstream ecology. Nature-as-sublime: distinct from culture, pristine, beyond human comprehension, used as the framework for thinking about nature. Nature-as-resource: extractable commodities conserving spaces to save for later use. Another way to describe sublime vs. resource binary: primitive vs. modern, natural vs. social, sacred vs. worldly. In sum, nature-as-sublime is associated with the natural world, and nature-as- resource is manufactured or man-made. Go underneath storyline being told to us. Formations of representations, narratives, etc. that reflect and reproduce storylines: these are conveyed by texts, images, songs, maps these are forms of discourse. Maps tell us stories that become naturalized : no history behind stories, origin forgotten and assumptions unseen, stories turn into truths taken for granted.
