Study Programmes 2015-2016
ENVT0005-2  
Representations Practices of Enviromnent and Nature (Part 2)
Duration :
15h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in communication (120 ECTS)4
Lecturer :
Lucienne Strivay
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
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.
Learning outcomes of the course :
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
None.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Drafting of a written work.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires

Presentation of different case studies by C. Mougenot and L. Strivay in turn.
Recommended or required readings :
Documents about various topics will be distributed for further reading.
Assessment methods and criteria :
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.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
ENVT0005-2 and ENVT0005-3 are dependent
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 Dorothée Denayer - Département sciences et gestion de l'environnement ddenayer@ulg.ac.be