ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental History, Societal Racism

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Worthy Ken

Document Summary

Why so unprepared: environmental history of new orleans. 18th-19th centuries: urban expansion primarily on natural levees. Plantation agriculture: reclamation, upstream levees for sugar, slavery, exports. New orleans: trade, growth, cultural mixing, jim crow (1876-1964) Segregation (-> increased risk and vulnerability: nature & society, economic classes, races. Mer(cid:272)ha(cid:374)t"s key the(cid:373)es i(cid:374) e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal history: ecology, production, reproduction, biological: (1) human bodies; (2) energy, social: (1) skills & behavioral norms passed to next generation; (2) systems of governance & law to maintain order, consciousness. Identity: race, ethnicity, class, gender, etc: social position & roles, social construction, self-understanding, cultural resources. Po(cid:449)er & justi(cid:272)e: distri(cid:271)utio(cid:374) of : costs & benefits, risks & opportunities. That opportunity existing within a social relationship which permits one to carry out one"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:449)ill e(cid:448)e(cid:374) agai(cid:374)st resista(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d regardless of the (cid:271)asis o(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h this opportunity rests. So(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of : self, other, divisions in new orleans: race, class, & natures (levees) Segregation & natural resource management in new orleans.