Sumários
Moving on to the West (Left) Coast: Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada Natural Parks (John Muir and Simon Schama).
26 Abril 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Oral presentation on the Mojave Desert.
The beginnings of the natural conservation movement - John Muir and national natural parks. Reading an excerpt of his journal "My First Summer in the Sierra", anthology pp. 272-278.How to achieve the right balance between preserving nature and maintaining a more "natural" symbiosis with it? how to (not) represent nature without an Anthropocentric bias? Do we need marks on Nature to apprehend it and then preserve it? Discussion of Simon Schama's intro to Landscape and Memory (pp. 265-271).
Invited lecturer: Scott Edward Anderson (class via zoom)
21 Abril 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Interview and readings on ecopoetry, nature conservancy, and Portuguese-American cultural heritage with Scott Edward Anderson.
Discussion of excerpts of his book Dwelling (anthology, pp. 256-264): https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/04/hw-for-april-21-questions-to-our-guest.html
The Appalachian bioregion and its nature_culture interactions from the perspective of Harriette Arnow (guest Mandala de la Rivière).
19 Abril 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Mandala de la Rivière explored the Appalachian bioregion in connection with Harriette Arnow's Hunter Horn, focussing particularly on the analysis of the second chapter (anthology, pp. 248-253).
Allusion to the "thinking" of non-human beings, linking to Aldo Leopold's "Thinking like a Mountain" (anthology, pp. 254-255).
See Mandala's powerpoint for this class on Moodle.