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).