Mapping Terrains of Feminist Knowledge Building in Eco-Gender Studies
Complete a conceptual map and submit your drawing, PPT, Word Doc, etc. as an attachment here. Please also post a copy to the “Assignments” forum in the Discussions tool.
Conceptual mapping can be a useful tool to illustrate, or create a diagram of, the broad components of any particular concept or issue.
In the case of this exercise, you have the opportunity to create a visual representation of the forces impacting a particular eco-feminist/environmental issue for the purpose of informing others about the problem and generating discussions.
1) identify an issue that is relevant to one of your communities (e.g., the campus community, your home community, a region of the province that has significance to you) and
2) begun to explain the various forces at work in the context of that environmental issue.
Use a form that makes sense to you, and one that you can imagine yourself using to explain your issue to another student. If you are familiar with the practice of concept or mind mapping (Links to an external site.), (Links to an external site.) you can certainly apply those skills to this assignment.
