Cultural Studies and Environmentalism

Abstract

philosophy to show a progressively greater emphasis on how to dwell sustainably in places and thereby preserve their environmental and cultural viability. To illustrate potential applications of this philosophy to contested places, we offer examples of the human damage done by forced displacement of two indigenous groups in the south-west USA and in Malaysia, and then present the complex of issues surrounding an ongoing place-related dispute in a naturally and culturally diverse southwest US com-munity. We conclude with a discussion of reasons why and ways that place-based education can be brought to bear on these and other disputes over richly meaning ful places, in order to safeguard their ecological and cultural attributes.