ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2

The course is primarily addressed to students of the Master Degree in Environmental Humanities who have already attended 'Environmental Anthropology 1, mod.1 and 2. The participation of students of other programmes can be authorised upon agreement with the instructors.

This course will provide students with knowledge of the approaches of science decolonization, with specific reference to environmental problems. In particular, indigenous research methodologies and their relationship to both ethnography and Western science will be analysed. This will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the role of science and interdisciplinarity in the processes of environmental and social change in light of contemporary socio-ecological challenges

Students are required to have already attended Environmental Anthropology 1, mod.1 and 2

Title: Indigenous science facing environmental challenges. The case of Hawai'i
This course will analyse current environmental challenges within the context of the ‘decolonizing science’ movement and the emergence of indigenous science taking the Hawaiian case as example. We will look at the approaches and narratives employed by indigenous scientists (and their allys) to study and face environmental problems and how these position in relation to western science. In so doing, we will develop critical discussions about how indigenous methodologies intersect with ethnography and western science and how we position ourselves in the dialectic relationship between indigenous and western science. We will debate how indigenous knowledge can inform or change our methodology at studying and evaluating environmental problems within a globalized - yet unequal - world.

Compulsory:
-Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika. (2005). ‘Unsettling Ethnography: Tales of an ‘Ōiwi in the Anthropological Slot’. Anthropological Forum 15 (3): 247–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664670500282030 .
- Fujikane, C. (2021). Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i. Duke University Press.
- Introduction and 4 essays from: Alohalani Brown, M. et al. (2019) The Past Before Us Moʻokūʻauhau as Methodology, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
- Liboiron M. (2021) Pollution is colonialism Duke University Press, Durham
-Povinelli, E. A. (2022). The Rise of an Indigenous Europe and the Genealogies of Indigeneities. Gropius Bau 2022. https://mediathek.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropius-bau/journal/der-aufstieg-eines-indigenen-europas-und-die-genealogien-der-indigenitaeten
-Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2021). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Tabula Rasa, 38, 61–111. https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n38.04

Suggested:
-Osorio, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani. (2021). Remembering Our Intimacies. Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea. Minnesota University Press. Minneapolis.
- La paperson (2017) A Third University is Possible, University of Minnesota Press
- Wilson S. (2008) Research is Ceremony, Fernwood Publishing, Manitoba
- Kēhaulani Kauanui J. (2018) Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty. Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism, Duke University Press, Durham
-Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, K., & Giardina, C. P. (2016). Embracing the sacred: An indigenous framework for tomorrow’s sustainability science. Sustainability Science, 11(1), 57–67.
-McMillen, Heather, Lindsay Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Kainana Francisco, and Christian Giardina. 2020. ‘Biocultural Stewardship, Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge, and the Urban Crucible’. Ecology and Society 25 (2).
- Enos, Kamuela, and Miwa Tamanaha. (2022). ‘Ownership as Kinship: Restoring the Abundance of Our Ancestors’. Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 7 September 2022. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/ownership-as-kinship-restoring-the-abundance-of-our-ancestors/ .
-Aluli Meyer, M. (2014). Indigenous and Authentic: Hawaiian Epistemology and the Triangulation of Meaning. In N. Denzin, L. Tuhiwai Smith, & Y. S. Lincoln (eds.), Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. SAGE.
-Valeri, V., (1985). Kingship and sacrifice: Ritual and society in ancient Hawaii. University of Chicago Press.
-Kirch, P.V. and Sahlins, M., (1994). Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1: Historical Ethnography (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.
-Kirch, P.V. and Sahlins, M., (1994). Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 2: The Archaeology of History. University of Chicago Press.
- Borgnino, E. (2022). Ecologie native. Elèuthera.

Attendance is not mandatory, but it determines the assessment methods:
A) Attending students: the final grade will include 1) the level of involvement and participation in classes. Attending students are expected to follow and participate in classes, intervening and animating the debate on the topics under consideration; 2) the quality of a group presentation. Small-groups of students will present a text (one article or book's chapter), encouraging questions and generating a discussion among colleagues; 3) the appropriateness of contents and language of a final written essay (between 3.000 and 4.000 words, bibliography included). Indications on the essay will be given more information at the beginning of the course and published on Moodle.
B) Non-attending students: the final grade will include 1) the appropriateness of contents and language of a written essay (between 5.000 and 6.000 words, bibliography included). Indications on the essay will be given more information at the beginning of the course and published on Moodle. To define yourself as 'attending', it is mandatory to have presented a text in class, actively participate in class discussions and it is not possible to miss more than 4 lessons out of the 15 scheduled.

The course is taught through a ixture of participative lectures, class discussion of selected articles and group presentations.

English

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development