Environment and Society: Nature, Culture, Politics - Middle Eastern Experience & Politics in Urban Sydney's Conservation Battles

Goodall, H

Environment and Society: Nature, Culture, Politics - Middle Eastern Experience & Politics in Urban Sydney's Conservation Battles

Goodall, H

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Publisher:: UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
Publication Type:: Recording, Oral
Issue Date:: 2009-11-11

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Goodall, H
dc.date.accessioned	2010-01-27T23:34:04Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:12:28Z
dc.date.available	2010-01-27T23:34:04Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:12:28Z
dc.date.issued	2009-11-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19844
dc.description.abstract	Climate change now makes daily impacts on all our lives, but societies have always been engaged with natural environments. In cities as well as in rural areas, human societies not only draw resources from the land and water, hunt animals or harvest crops or do both, but they share ancestries with heroic animals and birds, they shape their myths and philosophies around nature, and they invent wildernesses into which to retreat or over which to fight. More than physical interactions, societies make meanings from their entangled relationships with nature – they understand themselves and others through interactions with animals, plants and places. In the constant interactive processes which Appadurai has called ‘making localities’, human societies are shaped by environments at the same time as they change and reshape the places around them. In the Environment and Society node, researchers are drawing critically on approaches such as Political Ecology, Cultural Politics and Environmental History and Anthropology as they find ways to engage social justice and cosmopolitan civil societies with conservation and environmental sustainability.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Public Lecture 2009
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/987
dc.subject	ethnicity
dc.subject	environmental sustainability
dc.subject	community
dc.subject	politics
dc.subject	climate change
dc.title	Environment and Society: Nature, Culture, Politics - Middle Eastern Experience & Politics in Urban Sydney's Conservation Battles	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Climate change now makes daily impacts on all our lives, but societies have always been engaged with natural environments. In cities as well as in rural areas, human societies not only draw resources from the land and water, hunt animals or harvest crops or do both, but they share ancestries with heroic animals and birds, they shape their myths and philosophies around nature, and they invent wildernesses into which to retreat or over which to fight. More than physical interactions, societies make meanings from their entangled relationships with nature – they understand themselves and others through interactions with animals, plants and places. In the constant interactive processes which Appadurai has called ‘making localities’, human societies are shaped by environments at the same time as they change and reshape the places around them. In the Environment and Society node, researchers are drawing critically on approaches such as Political Ecology, Cultural Politics and Environmental History and Anthropology as they find ways to engage social justice and cosmopolitan civil societies with conservation and environmental sustainability.

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