GGRB21H3 Lecture 8: Lecture #8
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Wilderness landscapes" sanction and prohibit the presence of particular social groups. There is no such thing as wilderness as conventionally understood. What is understood as wilderness is a social construction. The meaning of wilderness shifts historically with different social meanings attached to various landscapes. The focus on wilderness continues to inform the goals of the mainstream environmental movement. Wilderness is untouched by humans to be created. There is no such thing as wilderness that not untouched: it will be effected by climate change, ocean or any social process, in a broad sense nature is socially produced. Wilderness= eurocentirc: there is sense of untouched land. History of colonialism and settlement: the us wanted to search for land that continue to identityfy as the frontier, to represent that, and wilderness did that. Wilderness is realy a social construction on our ideas. Construction of ideas and discourses and ________
