Environmentalism in the Interstices: California's Salton Sea and the Borderlands of Nature and Culture

The main objective of this paper is to show how oral literature is engaged by Swazis with regards to environmental sustainability. It demonstrates the relationship between nature and culture as reflected in Swazi oral literature and how indigenous knowledge embedded in this literature can be used to expand the concepts of eco-literature and eco-criticism. The paper argues that the indigenous environmental expertise among the Swazi people, encapsulated in their oral literature, can serve as a critical resource base for the process of developing a healthy environment. Furthermore, the paper contends that eco-criticism, which is essentially a Western concept, can benefit by drawing inspiration from the indigenous knowledge contained in Swazi culture and expressed in their oral literature. The paper concludes by recommending the need to strengthen traditional and customary knowledge and practices by protecting and recognising the values of such systems in the conservation of biodiversity for sustainable development.

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Design of an Environmental Interpretation Program for Yeongsil Trail Using Value, Nature and Culture Resources of Mt. Halla National Park

Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers ◽

10.25202/jakg.7.3.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 289-302

Author(s):

Jihee Ko ◽

Taeho Kim

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Environmental Interpretation ◽

Nature And Culture

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Medianatures

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung ◽

10.28937/1000108097 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 103-106

Author(s):

Jussi Parikka

Keyword(s):

Planetary Scale ◽

Nature And Culture ◽

The Earth ◽

Visual Technologies

The article outlines the concept of medianatures. The term is a neologism and in debt to Donna Haraway’s rather eloquent and important coinage naturecultures that already functioned to mark the constant co-becomings of supposedly separated spheres of nature and culture. Medianatures is a further elaboration that elaborates the tie between the earth materialities that are mobilized for technological infrastructures, visual technologies, applications and devices, and the onto- epistemological stance that then feeds back into understanding those planetary scale earth materialities in the first place: the techniques of vision, observation, calculation, and circulation that are part of the governance of the earth and its various localities.

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