Discuss the connection between colonialism and globalization. Provide two well-developed ethnographic examples from course materials, (course readings and/or documentary films), to exemplify this connection. 2. Our categories and discriminations always produce zones of boredom and unreadability; powerful projects of categorization, including development and conservation (as well as your scholarly readings practices, whatever they may be), produce persistently uninteresting, invisible, and sometimes illegitimate zones-which I call gaps. Universal knowledge projects cannot be understood without attention to gaps (Tsing, 2005, p. 172). What are some important gaps that Tsing focuses her argument on? Why does Tsing argue that we need to examine gaps? What can gaps reveal about universal knowledge projects?
What does it mean to speak of nature as a cultural construction? Explain. Discuss the different constructions of the forest that Tsing emphasizes in Friction (. frontier, wilderness, wild spaces, tree histories). Why is it important to be aware of such different constructions of nature?
