IEP 426: Contested Natures

AWAYMAVE - The Distance Mode of MA in Values and the Environment at Lancaster University

Description

The approach stresses that it is specific embodied social practices – not merely abstract ethical principles – that enable, shape and transform different natures and environmental practices. Understanding such social practices entails a need to engage with people’s own categories of concern and experience, especially in their dwelt-in worlds. Particular practices to be examined include: hunting and changing relationships with animals; gardening practices and local knowledge; food and tensions around genetically modified foods; landscape and the primacy of the visual; travel and the aesthetic; and trees and outdoor leisure practices. The complexities for environmental judgement and decision-making arising from the influences of such processes will be explored in critical discussions in the seminars.

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