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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
ENVT2035-2  Environmental performance and practice
Duration :  18h Th, 18h Pr
Credits/ECTS :  
Advanced Master in Development, Environment and CommunitiesSecond semester3
Holder(s) :  Catherine Mougenot, Lucienne Strivay
Language :  French language
Course contents :  The course aims at examining the representations of nature and environment at different times and in various places and at questioning the investigation tools and the representations of the students themselves.
The main thread will be an "animal" entry. The squirrel, the elephant, the vulture , the beaver, the coypu , the bat, the fox (or other pests)... are considered to be frontier runners or to be linking different worlds, consequently allowing us to follow the natural balance, the exchanges as well as the conflicts, misunderstandings , adjustments, silences, contradictions or ruptures.Those are lines, threads or what G. Deleuze calls "des devenirs" , too, revealing the ambivalent , contradictory and ever changing character of the practices and cultural modes and showing as well
- the possible conflicts linked to them,
- the forms of running of the territory ( some of them may be incompatible),
- the scientific controversies , the emerging points of incertitude,
- the economic and social priorities, intermingled and sometimes contradictory.
Course objective :  The course purports to be gathering knowledge and questions connected with the anthropology of nature, socio-anthropology as well as with ecology, studies of animal populations , naturalistic knowledge and practices of territory management.
Prerequisites :  None.
Workshops :  Drafting of a written work.
Organization :  See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires

Presentation of different case studies by C. Mougenot and L. Strivay in turn.
Written notes :  Documents about various topics will be distributed for further reading.
Assessment :  The student will submit a case study similar to that of the course or another case of application in a written work. This work should underscore the divergence between the opposing representations and the possible difficulties of territory management resulting from them.
Contacts :  Catherine Mougenot - Département sciences et gestion de l'environnement
cmougenot@ulg.ac.be
Tel : 063 230 866

Lucienne Strivay - Département d'anthropologie philosophique de la nature
Lucienne.Strivay@ulg.ac.be
tel 43 66 32 43
Remarks :  None.


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