EcoFem, Indigenous And PC Critique

Question 1

Guha

Answer 1

1999

Environmentalism is just another extension of Eurocentric values that are inherently classist

Question 2

Cronon said

Answer 2

1995
Wilderness product of western culture
-protect the frontier of American progress
-to erase indigenous knowledge
-reproduces the values it seeks to reject seeks to save land untouched by humans

Question 3

Baldy said

Answer 3

2015
Oral narratives of indigenous groups are on ancient tradition

They function as science within these groups to learn about the environment around them- document claims to land

This fundamentally conflicts with settler colonialism in which settlers believe that have legal claims to land

Question 4

Nadasy said

Answer 4

1999
Traditional ecological knowledge is now commonly used in environmental management inter frayed with science to give a holistic view

However, external categories imposed on the knowledge collected by indigenous groups relies in compartmentalism and distillation of knowledge

Not represented view of TEK

Question 5

Gaard said

Answer 5

2001
Ecofem see how we treat the environment and each other as the same thing
Woman and minorities associated with Nature throughout history

However, positive image of women nature ruined by the original sin Catholicism

Water and women not represented in economy

Question 6

Plumwood said

Answer 6

1933
Master model of ecofeminism
Western culture implies dualisms

Woman are traditionally associated with emotions the body and nature

Question 7

Key elements of social structures

Answer 7

Beliefs
Individuals 
Groups
Class 
Rights

Question 8

What is structural violence

Answer 8

Violence extended indirectly through the arrangements of different elements

Question 9

What is the ecofeminism master model

Answer 9

Great chain of being
Hierarchy- less perfect and perfect things
There is a natural hierarchy and feel it should be imbedded in institutions

Ecofem- connections between domination of nature and woman structures the way to think

Question 10

Ecofem critique is

Answer 10

Hierarchy dualisms ascribe unequal values
Two groups declared radically exclusive- something intrinsic ti the dominant group the subordinate group lacks capacity to attain
Subordinate others treated homogenous dominant treated individually
Dominant operates in a state of denied dependence on subordinate others

Question 11

Flint water crisis

Answer 11

Didn’t act fast enough or with haste as not a powerful community ethic group= racism
Low vs high income
Structural failure of c+c govs
2014 still not fixed

Question 12

Standing Rock North Dakota

Answer 12

Fossil fuel pipeline
Argues contaminate water
Straight through indigenous land
IND had momentary victory
Don’t want to legitimise a government oppressing them
Did get built and it leaked
12,000 barrels leaked out before detections

Question 13

PC critiques of environmentalism

Answer 13

1- environmentalism is premised on a nature culture divide notion of wilderness is free of human influences- bourgeois aesthetic

2- western conservation programs premised on removal of people in the home of saving nature

3- impoverish communities that are dispossessed from their means of livelihood

Question 14

What is traditional ecological knowledge

Answer 14

Governments want to incorporate traditional knowledge into resource management plans

Question 15

What are the challenges of TEK

Answer 15

Compartmentalisation of knowledge- only use info that fits there categories

Structural violence of distilling knowledge- TEK creates illusion indigenous have no say on issues

Question 16

Critiques in environmentalism

Answer 16

1- environmentalism which doesn’t address structural inequalities reinforces structural violence

2- environmentalism that does not address structural inequalities continues to naturalise state claims to environment