292) Mark David Spence: Deconstructing the colonial roots of National Parks

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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About Mark David Spence:

Mark David Spence is a public historian, a consultant, and a visiting professor in the Oregon University System. For the past several years, he has been the sole proprietor of HistoryCraft, where his work is largely focused on historical studies for the National Park Service.

Before moving to Oregon, Spence was an Associate Professor of History and Chair of American Studies at Knox College in Illinois. His scholarship and teaching focused on comparative and cross-disciplinary approaches to U.S. environmental, western, American Indian, and Latin American subjects.

Spence is the author of Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks, a highly influential book that examines American conceptions of wilderness, Indian removal, and the creation of national parks in the U.S. from the 1870s to the 1930s.

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1:10.6	Wilderness is a good way to problematize our relationships with the past, with other peoples, with each other, with the natural world.
1:19.6	And to recognize there is no wilderness, there are only cultural landscapes.
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1:55.8	Mark David Spence, our guest today is a historian who's centered his work on environmental history, American Indian
2:02.8	history, the history of the American West, and the history of national parks, which will be the
2:09.0	focus of our discussion here as we go into how the establishment of national parks in the so-called
2:14.8	United States was at odds with and opposed to the interests of
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