Timeline of American Environmentalism and Car Culture – In progress
A work in progress, I created this timeline as a research aid and data storage tool. It lists what I…
Shawndel Fraser is a Ph.D. Student in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research is focused on American cultural ideas of nature, environment, sustainability and humanity. Her professional goal is to be an engaging and artistically creative, acerbically witty and clever, yet approachable cultural critic.
She uses the energy and flows of everyday live to inspire her artistic new-media, deliberately non-quantitative approach to cultural change research.
Shawndel's projects all seek to foster what she terms Collective Conscious Consilient Conversation. That is to say, that she seeks to nurture public forums interesting enough for everyday people, academics, students and professionals from different disciplines, fields and perspectives to discuss old ideas in new ways, and to brainstorm new ideas for the use of old places and things with new people.
Shawndel Fraser is the current Organizer of the Annual CUNY Nature, Ecology & Society Colloquium . Under her gentle guidance, the culture and format of the program is currently being expanded and technologically upgraded. Seeking to push beyond the limits of standard research presentations, the new Colloquium format will provide for open-forum interdisciplinary discussion to bridge the scientific, social and pedagogical gaps between Nature, Ecology and Society in academic research.
A work in progress, I created this timeline as a research aid and data storage tool. It lists what I…
“Technonature: Artificiality and Virtuality” – regular layspeak entry forthcoming Seemingly exists in opposition to Organic Nature, Escobar asks whether techno…
“Capitalist Nature: Production and Modernity” – regular-speak layman’s definition forthcoming “linear perspective” “realist painting (freezing place from a particular point of…
National Georgraphic August 2007 This ad seems to portray what Escobar terms Capitalist Nature. The expansive vista of the sky frames…
“Organic Nature: Culture and Local Knowledge” – regular-speak layman’s definition forthcoming. Arturo Escobar brilliantly questions the relationship between local constructions of nature…
Myths of Nature in post-WWII National Geographic Car Advertisements by Shwandel N. Fraser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No…
National Geographic Magazine Vol 214 No5 November 2008 Technonature – Arturo Escobar (1999) Tourist Nature – Andrew Wilson (1991) This…
National Geographic Magazine, October 2007, Volume 212, No 4. Nature as well-loved pet; In this beautifully nostalgic ad, Chevy has fashioned…
This blog will host excerpts from the data for my study Manufacturing Nature: Myths of Nature in National Geographic Car…