Questions

1.             According to Braun, what are buried epistemologies (pg 4-5)?   How do they reassert neo-colonial relations in the region? (3-5)

2.             How were geographers involved in colonial power (4-5)?

3.             What role has the production of nature allowed colonization (5)?

4.             What is the difference between looking at ideas about nature and the emergence of nature as a category?

5.              What is “regulated opposition in a highly mediatized society (5)?  How has this impacted the debate about Clayquot sound?  Who gets to speak?  Who doesn’t? (whole article, but particularly 7)

6.             In what different ways can nature be commoditified?   And into what systems these commodities are put?  (see 7)

7.              Does Braun think  ecology is a discourse? 

8.             How do First Nations people get represented in the colonial survey?  In the photography book?

9.             According to Robbins and Sharp, why do we still have so much monoculture lawn in a green era ?

10.          Why is this like Zizek’s version of ideology? Are people just dupes?

11.          Why do Robbins and Sharp argue the lawn is collective consumption?

12.          Why is it not just conspicuous consumption? (pg 443)

13.          Why could lawns be considered part of the Moral Economy? (pg 444)