GEO 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Neocolonialism, Free Market, United States Agency For International Development
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Deep water horizon is an essay question on neoliberalism. Nature society dualism- this dualism takes humans out of nature, but this leads up to exploit nature, makes humans feel like they are superior to nature. (society separate from nature; we make that separate definition. ) Critique- humans are a part of (cid:374)ature, (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g u(cid:374)(cid:374)atural a(cid:271)out nyc, (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t set our self out of nature. Discourse is a system of ideas or ways of thinking, system of language, system of signs of material practices. Concept: definition of wilderness as untouched, humans have not touched it. Narratives: stories we tell about a certain concept; things we say. Ideology: value, ethical ideas of what something ought to be. Signifying practices- park rangers that patrol trails. When europeans came to new world nature was seen as danger, forest was danger, In the industrial period, wilderness was seen as pristine, beautiful, sacred, space of innocence.