Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature

Series
Alumni Weekend
Video Audio Embed
This lecture by Jamie Lorimer explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature.
The diagnosis of the ‘Anthropocene’ marks the public end of the idea of nature as a pure place removed from society and revealed by natural science. This problematic idea has been central to much Western environmentalism. This lecture explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature. It focuses on the promise and pitfalls of rewilding – a novel mode of wildlife conservation – illustrated through an experiment in the Netherlands.

More in this series

View Series
Alumni Weekend

Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert

Illustrated with photographs from previous trips, this talk by Professor Mark Smith contrasts the Nile Valley and the desert and explore how the relationship between them developed over the course of Egyptian history.
Previous
Alumni Weekend

70 Years On: My, how you’ve changed!

Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of Oxford University draws upon his experience at the highest levels in the public sector to share his unique perspective on Britain over the last seven decades.
Next
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Episode Information

Series
Alumni Weekend
People
Jamie Lorimer
Keywords
anthropocene
Environment
geography
nature
wildlife
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 02/10/2014
Duration: 00:47:53

Subscribe

Apple Podcast Video Apple Podcast Audio Audio RSS Feed Video RSS Feed

Download

Download Video Download Audio

Footer

  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Contribute
  • Copyright
  • Contact
  • Privacy
'Oxford Podcasts' Twitter Account @oxfordpodcasts | MediaPub Publishing Portal for Oxford Podcast Contributors | Upcoming Talks in Oxford | © 2011-2022 The University of Oxford