Understanding the cases
LEGATO - Land-use intensity and ecological engineering rice based production systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNdRo1P7aGI
Please first watch the video, LEGATO - Land-use intensity and ecological engineering rice based production systems, to learn about the case in Ifugao, Philippines.
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Please then click on the link for the Google Earth Voyager case on the Orang Asal Indigenous Lands of Malaysia (Links to an external site.), to learn about many tribes of the Orang Asal, the Indigenous peoples of Malaysia, and how they cope with ecotourism. Here is the screenshot if you successfully land on the Google Earth Voyager project, with the blue button of "explore" located at the lower left corner.
Once you click on the blue button of "explore", You will be taken virtually to Malaysia and learn about many tribes' experience there by going through the voyager slides on the right side of the screen. What you can see here is a screenshot of just that, note that the voyager slide #1 listed on the right side of the screenshot.
There are many tribes in the voyager presentation, such as the Jakun village of Kampung Peta in Ulu Endau (on voyager slide #2 ), and the Semai community of Kampung Ulu Semul in Pahang (on voyager slide #3). There are success stories, as well as struggles, explained in images and videos. You will select two tribes from the Orang Asal indigenous Lands of Malaysia, and compare their experience with the Ifugao case in the Philippines; ideally, you will select one tribe who have successful stories, and one tribe who are going through struggles.
https://vimeo.com/250724345
Module 2, Video 2: What is imperialism? (Links to an external site.) from UTS ePRESS (Links to an external site.) on Vimeo (Links to an external site.).
Finally, to refresh memory, it is a good idea to revisit the lecture video from this week, What is Imperialism?
- Writing up discussion posting
You will then select ONE worldview continuum from individualism vs. collectivism, egalitarian vs. hierarchy, achievement vs. ascription, as well as mastery vs. adaptive, in your responses to the following questions:
1 [claim] Among all the cases you studied, which two tribes you have selected from the Orang Asal Indigenous Lands of Malaysia? Which Voyager slide are they each on? which worldview continuum you've selected that can connect the experience among the two tribes in Malaysia to the community of Ifugao in the Philippines?
2 [definition] Can you explain the two cultural orientations on either ends of the continuum in your own words?
3 [example] Please describe specific details from all three cases (two tribes from Malaysia and Ifugao in the Philippines) that you see as relevant to your worldview continuum. Do you see decisions made by stakeholders in the cases, that is, local community members and/or outsiders, resonating with either end of your chosen cultural continuum? How so? Did you see evidence of cultural imperialism, as explained in our textbook, Intercultural Learning? Did you see evidence of particular practice such as green grabbing, or resource alienation?
4 [explanation] As a form of environmental justice, climate justice is "the fair treatment of all people and the freedom from discrimination in the creation of policies and projects that address climate change as well as the systems that create climate change and perpetuate discrimination (Bartholomew, 2015, para. 2)". At the end of the day, as global citizen, what can we do to offer culturally responsive solutions to the challenges we examined? Project Drawdown is a website hosting solutions to climate change challenges. For the sector on Food, Agriculture, and Land Use (https://drawdown.org/sectors/food-agriculture-land-use (Links to an external site.)), we can see many solutions. Can you select one solution and discuss how, from a culturally relevant way, provide a better balance between the cultural orientations on your worldview continuum discussed earlier?