Unit 2: Module 5 Life In Anthropocene

Question 1

Anthropocene

Answer 1

The current historical era in which human activity is reshaping the planet in permanent ways. Ex: extreme poverty, toxic pollution, inequalities of wealth

Question 2

Environmental Anthropology

Answer 2

Study of relations between humans and the environment Ex: Ogden study of everglades

Question 3

Ogden

Answer 3

Environmental anthropologist. Studied Florida everglades, exploring lives of gladesmen (alligator hunter) and their way of life being disrupted by governmental changing land for conservation and real estate purposes.

Question 4

Teaiwa

Answer 4

Environmental anthropologist that studied the impact of phosphate mining on Banaba Island. Mining destroyed much of the island and the Banaban people were forced out their homeland by the British.

Question 5

Multispecies ethnography

Answer 5

Research on the interactions of all species living on the planet. Obtain a more than human perspective.

Question 6

Climate Change

Answer 6

Global warming by increased greenhouse gases through the burning of fossil fuels. Changes in the atmosphere ex: melting of glaciers, rising sea levels

Question 7

Climate migrants

Answer 7

People who are displaced by global warming.

Question 8

Sustainability

Answer 8

Refers to a society capabilities of reproducing itself indefinitely without undermining the conditions for its own existence.

Question 9

Melissa Checker

Answer 9

Environmental gentrification and unequal access to a greener NYC
Study of environmental racism in georgia followed african american organizers fighting toxic waste in their neighborhood.

Question 10

Environmental racism

Answer 10

form of racism that disproportionately exposes communities of color to environmental consequences/hazards.

Question 11

Settler Colonialism

Answer 11

Displacement of indigenous people and expropriation of their lands and resources. Infrastructure as tool of settler colonialism.
Supports anti-colonialism Anne Spice