GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Blue Marble, Anthropocene, Environmentalism
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Humans are always imagined the world as a whole, where they all belong to. Made object to represent that what had not been seen. After space exploration the globe became a planet. Seeing world as it is physically, rather than imaging it. Rise of environmentalism: no boundaries awareness raises concerns of ecological. Problems that affect the world as a whole. Realizing how small humanity is, however humanity is powerful since it can shape the globe. Universalizing traps: limiting ways of thought: only taking global or local. Mobilization of particular is based on universal contexts: contradictory. Micro protests are based on universalized concepts. Messiness resulting from interactions is far away from metanarratives. Encounters: work as enablers and constructing agents. Tsing is between clash of civilizations and homogenization theories. She is in between rejection of cultures and absorption. Co-production of cultures : shapes through interdependency.
