ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Sustainable Forest Management, Radical Environmentalism, Oil Sands
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Recap: five problematic assumptions we make about nature. Nature has a single meaning best expressed through apolitical science. Some of us might clingle to the idea that there is a single meaning evolving from nature. But there are multitude of ways to understand animals, forests, etc we are interested not in finding the truth of a particular meaning, we are interested in how different meanings come up against each other in real life. How some meanings get forgotten while other persevere. Even the scientific theory that said forest is in equilibrium, it maintains itself comes up against other theories saying that"s not the case. The reason why people manage nature a certain way is because they subsribe to the other theories. As he said last time, struggles over nature are struggles over meaning abcribed to that nature. 2) the idea that pristine nature exists is problematic.
