<b>Ecoturism and the untouchable nature myth</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v32i2.8677

  • Heloísa Turini Bruhns Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, Brasil
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v32i2.8677
Keywords: Nature, myth, ecoturism

Abstract

This essay develops a reflection about the contemporary search for nature and shows how influences from “naturalism” have brought distortions in the relations between human beings and nature increasing distances and creating the false idea related to nature as having all the benefits in the opposite of culture having all vices. This conception have created some myths about nature like the idea of “wild nature” in which case human beings are not involved as participants but they are only visitors. The “authentic nature” excludes human presence and at the same time presents a contradiction since one considers the existence more and more authentic when situated in nature.

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Author Biography

Heloísa Turini Bruhns, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, Brasil
Aossui graduação em Economia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1974), graduação em Educação Física pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1980), mestrado em Educação pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1989) e doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1992). Atualmente é Professor Tirular da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Realizou estágio de pós-doutorado no Theory,Culture and Society centre na Nottingham Trent University- Nottingham, UK durante o ano de 2007.Tem experiência na área de Educação Física, com ênfase em Lazer e Meio Ambiente, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: lazer, esporte, ambientalismo, cultura e lazer corpo Currículo Lattes
Published
2010-08-27
How to Cite
Bruhns, H. T. (2010). <b>Ecoturism and the untouchable nature myth</b&gt; - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v32i2.8677. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 32(2), 157-164. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v32i2.8677
Issue
Vol 32 No 2 (2010)
Section
Social Sciences

 

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