WEEK 9 LEC: Sultana (climate coloniality) / Hughes (victim slot) / Mathews (Mexico forest)

Question 1

Sultana writes about …

Answer 1

climate coloniality

Question 2

Hughes writes about …

Answer 2

victim slot and Trinidad

Question 3

Mathews writes about

Answer 3

Mexico, deforestation, and mismanagement (“unlikely alliances”)

Question 4

“6 representations of nature”

Answer 4

1. jungle or rainforest 2. countryside (Arcadian) requires maintenance 3. Somewhere in between 4. Nature as aggressive / survivalism (Neo-Liberalism & carbon credit system) 5. Creationism + Geoengineering / Technological optimism 6. Gendered ideas of nature & culture = nature (woman) culture (man)

Question 5

Whatever you try to do about CC …

Answer 5

your actions will contradict from one viewpoint or another

Question 6

The Maasai (70K)

Answer 6

being evicted for conservation

Question 7

The Tanzanian Gov wants to protect Maasai culture.

Answer 7

No.

Question 8

Basic Tenets of Community Based Conservation …

Answer 8

1. decentralized 2. small-scale 3. local empowerment 4. local knowledge

Question 9

3 harmful assumptions about communities …

Answer 9

1) small, bounded (ahistorical)

2) homogenous social structure (level/eye-to-eye)

3) Shared norms and decision making

Question 10

3 MAIN PROBLEMS =

Answer 10

1) the mythic community does not exist 2) Actions may create / entrench inequality 3) the whole conservation effort becomes a tool of power & discipline

Question 11

4 reasons why there is no “easy solution”

Answer 11

1) people are geographically fluid and mobile
2) internal diversity
3) conflicting norms (some anti-development)
4) local knowledge not always local, or relevant