Overseas program(s):
Fuji Summer 2017
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Building Attitudes towards Nature - The following discussion will spring from analysis done by Stephen Kellert. Kellert recognized nine attitudes towards wildlife (which I will generalize to nature more generally) and quantified the extent to which people in America and Japan identified with those attitudes (1993). American responses showed a preference for wildlife in natural or wild circumstances. Japanese responses, […]
Choose Your Own Mount Fuji Adventure - Hello, Lewis and Clark Fuji Summer Program student. Yōkoso! You’ve made it to Japan, and made it through the first half of your program. Aren’t you excited to climb Mount Fuji?! Most people take a bus up from the fifth station and climb up from there, but you seem like you’re in good shape. Want […]
Getting Off the Black Ship - Tourism can be, and has been, seen as one of the black ships in the armada of globalization “spreading cultural homogeneity and consent” (Raz, 12). This conception feeds on the perceived inequity between the visitor and the visited, the watcher and the watched. This perceived inequality is reinforced by the commodification of the spaces and […]
The Biodiversity of Fuji Images in Urban Environments - The greatest areas of biodiversity have varied landscapes to provide a range of habitats for the species that live there. Japan’s satoyama, or countryside, has high levels of biodiversity. The human involvement creates a range of habitats which support many different species. Habitats found around traditional rice paddies include the paddies themselves, which maintain water […]