ES 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anishinaabe, Thesis Statement, Anthropocentrism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ES 301
• Professor: Anita Girvan

Document Summary

Lecture 15 - place-thought and i am not a nation state . Pick up outlines between 11-12 friday b256 david turpin building. The concepts and texts you will be engaging with. Engages with concepts and texts from the full course. Contains a conclusion that hints at the implications of your analysis. University education makes you aware of this dense political theory. The goal is to retrieve the non-human that have become lost in political theory. Locke"s political theory (and madison who was influenced by locke) revolved around only white males. Creation stories are not a foundation of society in university contexts. In watts" perspective, mother earth is a concept that is sometimes celebrated or sometimes dismissed (feminine quality). Your thoughts are derivative of the place that you"re in. Humans came last and had to fit into pre-existing societal structures. An essential connection between land-based philosophy and practice for anishnabe and broader indigenous cosmology.