ENVS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Agency, Performativity

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1200
• Professor: charlotte lombardo

Document Summary

Reflexivity is a broader view of the wle self. Process of coming to an understanding of how ones actions are formed and form the world. The way our positions and actions reflect dominant discourse and practices. Relational, tied to context, dynamic, and perpetually iterative. We are a force acting on our environment, not just forces acting on us. Actions have intentions linked to a range of assumptions and produce intended and unintended effects. To uncover root causes of problems and identify actions that people can take. True knowledge evolves from the integration of reflection and action to transform social conditions(praxis) De-centering-taking apart the meaning of things with the aim of revealing hidden practices that construct how something comes across to be understood in a particular way. A step to re-negotiating new forms of a relationships in the collective action that should. Requires moral action in the form of communal participation where marginalized voices are \also elicited and attended to.