Eco-tourism can have a negative or positive influence on a local natural landscape or economy; this is not a new idea.
But, a critical analysis of which and how individuals are affected in processes of eco-tourism is needed and relatively fresh in leisure studies. Eco-tourism studies, and those individuals studied, can benefit from the inclusion […]
Filed under: eco-tourism, critical theory, goals on June 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
UNDERGROUND
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference November 6-7, 2008
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Call for Papers
I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be
kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for
forty years and never open […]
Filed under: caves, goals on June 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Eventually this will be either reality or the next Lost. Hopefully we won’t have a fleet of spaceships with hierarchies of civilian classes experiencing food and water shortages and poor educational opportunities.
photo credit:chefrandenchefranden
Filed under: future, observations and opinions, goals on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
A friend of mine recently said that for him social justice was righting an injustice rather than promoting a right. However, I believe I may be the opposite.
I am taking three courses: Environmental Planning in the Architecture department at Columbia, Anthropology of Property in the CUNY GC Anthro department, and American Political Culture and National […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, goals on March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
In Malinowski’s ethnographic study of a coral garden population some miles from New Guinea he writes this about his field work:
“The principles of social organization, of legal constitution, of economics and religion have to be constructed by the observer out of a multitude of manifestations of varying significance and relevance. It is these invisible realities…which […]
Filed under: environmental planning, goals on February 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This blog serves as a resource for me to work out ideas related to my doctoral research at the City University of New York Graduate Center Environmental Psychology PhD program.
Filed under: goals on January 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
