Devious definitions
Sociology
Castree uses these three question words to help analyse nature. What are these?
What, where, and when
What do believers in ecological modernisation see as the best way to deal with socioenvironmental issues?
Technological development
What are the two qualities required for a dualistic relationship?
Difference and power
Which word is used to describe the natural variety of species that exist on Earth.
Biodiversity
An economic system where the means of production are privately owned and used to accumulate profit, which is distributed unevenly.
What is capitalism?
Which wilderness frame is defined as 'A mysterious, elating experience arising from the awareness of beauty, generally due to the experience of a power ‘greater than ourselves.'?
Sublime space
What does Beck propose to be our current model of society, no longer producing wealth but producing social hazards
Risk society
What social movement focuses on addresses consequences when typically marginalised communities are harmed by hazards or not fairly included in decision-making?
Environmental justice
Kotsila et al. discuss this type of solution on their journal article on city-initiated green projects in Barcelona.
Nature Based Solutions
This is the process by which commons are bounded, assigned value, and allocated to owners.
What is enclosure?
Proposed by Castree, what are the four principal meanings of nature that comprise the main ways it is used as a keyword.
External, universal, intrinsic, and super-ordinate nature
Léguizamon talks about this process of capitalism, characterised by speeding up continual extraction and input of resources in order to pursue growth
The treadmill of production
How many aspects of dualism does Plumwood describe in her discussion of the concept?
Five
When we talk about food, this term involves all of the processes, actors and influencing factors involved in food going from growth to consumption.
Food system
A form of imperialism that involves moving people to the territory one wishes to control.
What is settler colonialism?
Practices, which are defined as a routinised activity achieved through interconnected elements, are made up three types of elements. List at least two.
Materials, meanings, and ideas
This conflictual dynamic sees an unequal exchange between humans (as a part of nature) and non-human nature. It is a concept in political ecology.
Metabolic rift
One of the four types of environmental justice, where excluded groups are meaningfully involved in decision making procedures.
Procedural justice
This is the documented number of species in the world, though it is certainly not all of them (+ or - 100,000)
1,700,000
Interpretive patterns which form quickly recognisable communicative representations.
What is a frame?
Spurling and McMeekin discuss three ways that practices can be changed. What are these?
Substituting a practice, changing an element of a practice or changing the relations between practices
Bakker discusses these three conceptual ways of viewing water in her journal article that you should have all read. List at least two (water as a...).
Water as a right, water as a commons, and water as a commodity
This is one of the five aspects of dualism, and is a process that involves making something into a tool to be used by the dominant.
Instrumentalisation
Levkoe discusses three ways to transform the food system. Define and explain one of them.
A transition to collective subjectivities, a whole food-system approach, or a politics of reflexive localisation