GEOG 1030H- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Understanding nature as a social construction: producing nature (marxist tradition) Thinks of the humans influencing the nature. Concerned with how we use and transform nature (turning it into something different) Do it so we can make more use of that nature (whether we can sell it, eat it, use it etc. ) With the rise of industrial capitalism, things considered natural were becoming some- thing different. 17th century inca collecting for storage industrial potato harvesting gmo potato (modified to reduce bruising) Views nature as socially constructed as it transforms and reflects values: representing nature (landscape tradition) Shaped by many aspects of life including photography, religion, education, Nature is a form of the human imagination. Don"t take representations of natural world at face value. Because we have always imposed something on it. The real and the represented are often very different to differentiate. Landscape photographers can alter everything (cropping, editing, what that person wants to show)
