GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Moe Williams, Biobank
15 Jul 2020
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Epistemes: ways of thinking about the world that come to dominate in a particular period. Socially constructed: the product of human choices, beliefs, and actions. The world as we know it has been shaped by long histories of interactions involving humans and other creatures and things on this planet. So we cannot speak of (or even understand) nature outside sets of social categories, relationships, and histories. Politics of nature- how nature is imagined as a category in the way we talk, conceptualize, engage with it. Whats at stake with how we conceptual nature. Nature as socially constructed zoo example- culturally shaped stories about. Reflect human efforts to draw boundaries between nature and culture, and between humans and animals. Culturally and politically invested and thus change as investments change. Often misrecognize or do not see ways that human intervention has been involved in shaping what we come to define as nature. 1878-1930 building a collection at the zoo.
