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(2010) Cultural studies and environmentalism, Dordrecht, Springer.
Implications of sense of place and place-based education for ecological integrity and cultural sustainability in diverse places
Steven Semken , Elizabeth Brandt
pp. 287-302
Emotional and intellectual estrangement – or even the outright eviction – of people from places personally and culturally important to them is rampant in this time of anthropic sprawl, economic globalization, and cultural homogenization. Placelessness (Relph 1976) unmoors individuals, often with detrimental effects to self-identity and well-being. Mass displacement, typically to suit the economic or political purposes of others, removes aboriginal or historically resident populations, each of which possesses a diachronic collective memory of local environmental processes and cycles, hard-won expertise in how to dwell sustainably in a place, and usually the most vested interest in preserving that place. Contested places are the loci of past, ongoing, and potential future conflicts and displacements, which threaten ecological integrity (Nabhan 1997) and cultural sustainability (Cernea 2000) around the globe.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3929-3_24
Full citation:
Semken, S. , Brandt, E. (2010)., Implications of sense of place and place-based education for ecological integrity and cultural sustainability in diverse places, in D. J. Tippins, M. P. Mueller, M. Van Eijck & J. D. Adams (eds.), Cultural studies and environmentalism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 287-302.
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