Exam #2 Lit and Class Notes Flashcards
What does EWG stand for?
Environmental Working Group
What is an endocrine disruptor?
Radically alters hormonal processes in the body
What are PFAS aka Forever Chemicals?
- Chemicals that do no break down in the environment over time
- they are human made
- Short Chain vs Long Chain: Some PFAS chemicals will filter out short chain, but intensify long chain
What is the only way to effectively filter PFAS?
reverse osmosis
Essentialism
Assuming someone’s identity gives them a quality that is intrinsic to them; a particular group has an innate/inherent/biological property
What number of the world’s critically poor are Indigenous?
1/3
Ethnobiology
Study of life through ethnographic traditions
Bioprospecting
treating human and non human nature as raw resources; aka biopiracy
Connective Ontology
Indigenous belief systems that recognize the interconnectedness of all things
Ontology
the study of being/existence
Epistemology
the study of knowledge; how we know; forms of knowledge
Anamism
system of beliefs that views everything as alive
Ethnography
Observing, participating in, and representing indigenous cultures; developed out of social sciences and tends to be made up of interviews, focus groups, and/or questions
Divestment
-making entities stop investing in neocolonialism
- making companies stop investing in fossil fuels
Neocolonialism
a new kind of colonization through global capitalism
Decolonization
ask institutions to actively negate policies that give unfair advantages to certain groups and harm others
IMF
-international monetary fund
- Post WW2 countries had to adapt to capitalism
When was Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock released?
2017
What is Awake (2017) about?
- A documentary about the encampment and protesting at the Dakota Access Pipeline
Who wrote and narrated Awake (2017)?
Floris White Bull
Who wrote Black Women and the Wilderness and when was it published?
- written by Evelyn White
- published 1999
What is Black Women and the Wilderness about?
- The fears black women may have of being exposed to harm if they go into the wilderness
- Genetic memory of ancestral trauma such as colonialism, slavery, and lynchings
- unconscious feelings about nature
- Environmental racism
Who wrote Coda: Wilderness Letter and when was it published?
-Written by Wallace Stegner
- published 1960/69?
What is Stegner’s Wilderness Letter About?
- Wilderness as an idea
- wilderness as a concept is free from people, but actual wilderness has human influence
- Wilderness as an intangible spiritual resource
- We need the availability of wilderness; even when one is not in nature, we find comfort in knowing that it is still there
- Stegner’s view thinks of people as seperate from nature, but also views nature as a resource for people
- Stegner was attempting to persuade public policy