Redefining Wilderness
(2024) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20241LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Abstract
- Anthropocentrism as an ideology places humanity above nature and has long served as an excuse for its exploitation and destruction. Only by redefining nature and wilderness as intrinsic parts of ourselves and seeing other species as our extended family can we start to develop sustainable relationships with the more-than-human world. During my fieldwork in the intentional community of Auroville, I interviewed, lived, and worked amongst forest stewards in the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF); an ecosystem brought back to life in the past 55 years. This autoethnographic study analyzes how the forest stewards have formed deep symbiotic relationships with their surrounding ecosystems, by viewing nature as part of their community and an... (More)
- Anthropocentrism as an ideology places humanity above nature and has long served as an excuse for its exploitation and destruction. Only by redefining nature and wilderness as intrinsic parts of ourselves and seeing other species as our extended family can we start to develop sustainable relationships with the more-than-human world. During my fieldwork in the intentional community of Auroville, I interviewed, lived, and worked amongst forest stewards in the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF); an ecosystem brought back to life in the past 55 years. This autoethnographic study analyzes how the forest stewards have formed deep symbiotic relationships with their surrounding ecosystems, by viewing nature as part of their community and an extension of themselves. Through the lens of kincentric ecology and environmental subjects, this study aims to redefine wilderness as a space where humanity and nature can strive as one. (Less)
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- author
- Menard Elder, Malia LU
- supervisor
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- Guy Jackson LU
- organization
- alternative title
- An autoethnography analyzing more-than-human relationships between forester of an intentional community and an ecologically restored forest
- course
- MESM02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Auroville, kincentric ecology, TDEF, forester, more-than-human relationships, wilderness, sustainability science
- publication/series
- Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- report number
- 2024:038
- language
- English
- id
- 9157271
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-04 10:32:41
- date last changed
- 2024-06-04 10:32:41
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