First published on 09/15/2017, and last updated on 01/13/2018
Over the summer (June to July 2017), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona offered an Environmental Anthropology course led by Dr. Pablo Domínguez with contributions from Ashish Kothari – member of the Council of Elders of the ICCA Consortium.
Through an in-depth bibliographic review of some of the most representative works of the History of Environmental Anthropology, the course offered an innovative analysis demonstrating how the different approaches to these relations have, through time, placed themselves along three main dimensions or axes: 1) The Material-Ideal; 2) The Individual-Social; and 3) The Quantitative-Qualitative. At the same time showing how most attempts, even those most transversal ones, are engaged to a greater degree with different areas along these three dimensions that cluster in two main paradigms, one naturalist and the other humanist.
The course also exposed the problems that the existence of such oppositions is posing and then, in the quest for a solution to these problems we propose a combination of the main schools of thought that we distilled from our revision. This synthesis was exemplified at the end of the course with field cases concerning Indigenous peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs).
To download the PowerPoint presentations for this course, please click HERE.
