Global South / Global North: Africa, Asia & Latin America...
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Global South / Global North:Africa, Asia & Latin America
versus US Midwest:
Retracing1500 to the present
as Environmental History
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“The habitual weakness of the American people is to assume that they have made themselves great, whereas their greatness has been in large measure thrust upon them by a bountiful providence which has given them forest, mines, fertile soil, and a variety of climate to enable them to sustain themselves in plenty…”
– Isaac Stephenson, 1915
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Main Lecture point: Nature, and our ideas about nature, emerge together in a
historical-geographical context1. The historical geography of biodiversity is produced
and shaped in part by human action2. Ideas of nature arise in concert with our
environmental history3. Colonial economies and administrations since the
16th century (1500s) have profoundly altered the biosphere
4. Contemporary patterns of biodiversity and ideas of nature reflect these past economic and environmental injustices
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what is a biodiversity ‘hot spot’?
how do types of biodiversity and processes of bio-diversification create in hot spots?
Where do Biodiversity hot spots come from?
What about ‘cold spots’?
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Global North: relatively greater wealth;less biodiversity
Global South / Circumpolar North: relatively less wealth; greater biodiversity
Brandtline
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#1Biodiversity is affected by:
Demographic changes in the first wave of colonialism.
Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
What happened to existing biodiversity?
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Smallpox epidemicDeath by disease and forced labor during the Conquest of Mexico:
indigenous population declined from 20 to 2 million –40% to 98% depending on area
consequences of Colonialism
World History of Biodiversity: 16th CenturyHow is biodiversity altered, changed?
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Biodiversity shaped by Colonial Forced Movements of People
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I. Biodiversity severely reducedIn Caribbean and to lesser degree in other parts of the Americas
II. Biodiversity conservedIn parts of Africa
Vast movement of peoples: Colonial Greed and Forced Labor
European Settlers: almost impossible to obtain land in Europe
Slavers force People from Africa
RESULT OF POPULATION MOVEMENTS
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#2Biodiversity affected by:
new technologies of food production and consumption
Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
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Food Crops and Biotic Transfers: Food and Weeds
Bananas, cotton: 500-1500 Sugar and Cocoa: 1500-1880 Coffee and Tea: 1650-1950
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Example 1:Africans bring rice cultivation and water management technology to Americas
Example 2: European Sheep damage Mexico
Crop transfers: new plants and animals brought new technologies
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Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
#3How is biodiversity affected by:
Early 1600-1800 (mercantile(market-oriented) colonialism and expanded industrialization
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Global EconomiesAnd environmental change
Classic Statement of the so-called ‘Triangular Trade’:
Early, violent wave of colonialism and exploitation beginning in the 17th century (1600s)
Coming to force in the 18th century (1700s)
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Sellingpeople
SlaveLabor
Gold &
(Forced Labor)
Opium
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Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
#4Global Northern biodiversity lost during 19th-20th
century period
Northern and some southern biodiversity lost due to economic expansion
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USA: economic benefit, environmental deficitMidwestern Grain Traders Chicago c. 19th Century From William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis
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Transport expansion Midwestern Railways1861
TransportDevelopment
US Westward Expansion
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African Railways 1915
1890
Note relative LACK of transport development in Africa, AND the same is true of Asia with the exception of India
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Chicago 19th C. Lumber District – milled wood and balloon framing
Michigan North WoodsThe great cutover
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European‘Scramble for Africa’:1880-1914
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Comparing North and South: summaryRailways and Foreign Investment, 1880-1914
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WhatareBiodiversityHot Spots
Used For?
#5ColonialPoliciesExploitBiodiversity
Recall Neumann
1. European ideas of African peoples and nature:noble savage, wildernesslabor force and natural resources for colonial profit
2. European ideas of nature were enacted (legislated) into African policy
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Africa: Imposing a ‘Natural’ Landscape through colonial policy
Sadly Ironic:Landscape created through colonial expansion and administrative policy becomes colonial playground(Neumann reading)
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USA internal colonialism: REVIEWFrom previous lecture: Native Americans Expelled from Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite: 1870s
Teddy Roosevelt in Yellowstone
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Constance Gordon-CummingIndian Life at Mirror Lake, 1878
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“The habitual weakness of the American people is to assume that they have made themselves great, whereas their greatness has been in large measure thrust upon them by a bountiful providence which has given them forest, mines, fertile soil, and a variety of climate to enable them to sustain themselves in plenty…”
– Isaac Stephenson, 1915¿¿Based upon this lecture, what would you say is missing in Stephenson’s statement??
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Conclusion:1. The ‘nature’ of our world was fundamentally
reworked from 1450-19002. The historical and geographical processes that
enriched our nation exacted a cost3. The conservation or ‘preservation’ movement
conflicted with both capital expansion and indigenous livelihoods
4. Historical dynamics live on in contemporary geographies and practices
5. We owe much of our wealth to expropriation of natural resources and peoples: Question: was it a ‘bountiful harvest’? See next
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European Ideas of Pristine Nature lead to the Imposition of Wilderness: European ideals of nature
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#1Biodiversity is affected by:
Demographic changes in the first wave of colonialism.
Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
What happened to existing biodiversity?
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#2Biodiversity affected by:
new technologies of food production and consumption
Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
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Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
#3How is biodiversity affected by:
Early 1600-1800 (mercantile(market-oriented) colonialism and expanded industrialization
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Where do biodiversity hot spots come from?
#4Global Northern biodiversity lost during 19th-20th
century period
Northern and some southern biodiversity lost due to economic expansion
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WhatareBiodiversityHot Spots
Used For?
#5ColonialPoliciesExploitBiodiversity
Recall Neumann
1. European ideas of African peoples and nature:noble savage, wildernesslabor force and natural resources for colonial profit
2. European ideas of nature were enacted (legislated) into African policy
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Notes?
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ColonialismAdvanced most quickly in Latin America
Began 1492,
Mercantile phase 1600s-1880s, After ‘century of depression’
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19th
century:Expansion into
Asia, 1800-1939