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Assignment for Tuesday, November 4This is the second explicitly "social" week, in which we consider in detail native systems of knowledge and socio-ecological practice, and whether they consciously or unconsciously build in concepts of resilience or concepts equivalent to resilience.First, review chapter 5 of Panarchy, by Berkes and Folke. Then look at another manifesto, this time by Berkes and Turner, on Knowledge, Learning, and the Evolution of Conservation Practice for Socioecological System Resilience. Then examine one of the detailed case studies on which these two authors base their general conclusions. Read either Chapter 5, Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 of Berkes's Sacred Ecology, detailing his work on Cree subsistence strategies and knowledge; or read chapter 6, Looking After the Lands and Waters, from Turner's The Earth's Blanket, part of her lovely account of Northwest Coast subsistence practices and relationships to the land. Finally, read a somewhat different approach from Eric Smith and Mark Wishnie, Conservation and Subsistence in Small-Scale Societies, in which they argue that native peoples are not automatically conservationists. We will discus a whole series of issues, including the relationship between conservation and resilience, thinking way, way back to Holling's original contrast between resilience and stability. |