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An alternative view

• Medea hypothesis (2009): life has highly detrimental

(biocidal) impacts on planetary conditions

• So what does this tell us about how human-environment/

nature-society relations are understood?

– Some see the fundamental unity of human and non-human: part of

– Some see a dualistic separation of human and non-human: apart from

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Unpacking assumptions

• Everything either belongs to society (culture) or nature:

culture-nature binary

• What do you think of when you think of nature? Where are

you in the picture?

• Western view of nature as ‘out there’ – wilderness, remote

islands, etc. BUT ….

Human-environment interactions and understanding of

them are socially constructed.

1. Producing nature (Marxist)

• Plants and animals physically transformed by farmers using

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