Essays on Wilderness

The essays aim will be to provide a comprehensive linkage between what is meant by social construction and its relation to nature and describe its importance in modern day world. Social construction as a theory does not belong to a single individual but instead forms collective ideas from where new conversations can begin. Social construction...

Introduction The Wilderness Act of 1964 established that the United States, with increasing population, expanding settlement and growing mechanization, needed to preserve the enduring resource of “wilderness”. The four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS), in the Department of Agriculture; the National Park Service (NPS); Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and Bureau of Land Management...

In children’s literature, fairy tales are important stories that include aspects of the nonhuman nature into the setting of the plot. Fairy tales integrate ideas of the wilderness in order to create a new world in the readers’ imagination. Therefore, fairy tales are “short narratives” which are “passed down” by generations that are able to...