HUM 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Garrett Hardin
4 Mar 2016
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Tragedy of the commons: resource where everyone has rights (commons: people want to maximize self interest which will cause the common property resource to collapse, garrett hardin coined the term. 1990s: moratorium declared to prevent fishing in newfoundland fisheries: still in place. Kurlansky: takes a commodity and looks at its role in history: kurlansky wrote another book about salt. Fishing down the food web: when a fish stock is low, fisherman draw their attention to other types of fish from a lower trophic level (p. 222) Can be physical or intangible place of a memorial heritage of any community. The museum: building requires institutional action: sites of memory: place where people go to experience the past, institutionally devised, not spontaneous, museum in st. john"s architecture mimicks fishing rooms which are another non-institutional lieux de memoire.
