ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1 MOD. 2
- Anno accademico
- 2023/2024 Programmi anni precedenti
- Titolo corso in inglese
- ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1 MOD. 2
- Codice insegnamento
- LMH020 (AF:440816 AR:243828)
- Lingua di insegnamento
- Inglese
- Modalità
- In presenza
- Crediti formativi universitari
- 6 su 12 di ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1
- Livello laurea
- Laurea magistrale (DM270)
- Settore scientifico disciplinare
- M-DEA/01
- Periodo
- I Semestre
- Anno corso
- 1
- Sede
- VENEZIA
- Spazio Moodle
- Link allo spazio del corso
Inquadramento dell'insegnamento nel percorso del corso di studio
Risultati di apprendimento attesi
Prerequisiti
Contenuti
In particular, we will analyze and discuss the following theoretical frameworks:
The ontologic turn
Inter-species ethnography
Plantationocene
Ferality and domestication
Testi di riferimento
Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. Chapter 2. Univ of California Press.
De la Cadena, Marisol. (2010) "Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual reflections beyond “politics”." Cultural anthropology 25.2: 334-370.
Bonifacio, Valentina. (2013). »Building up the collective: a critical assessment of the relationship between indigenous organisations and international cooperation in the Paraguayan Chaco." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 21.4: 510-522.
Haraway, Donna, et al. "Anthropologists are talking–about the Anthropocene." Ethnos 81.3 (2016): 535-564.
Scott, James C. 2008. Seeing Like a State. Chapter 1. Yale university Press.
Wolford, Wendy. "The Plantationocene: A lusotropical contribution to the theory." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111.6 (2021): 1622-1639.
Chao, Sophie. (2018) "In the shadow of the palm: dispersed ontologies among Marind, West Papua." Cultural Anthropology 33.4: 621-649.
Chao, Sophie. "Children of the palms: growing plants and growing people in a Papuan Plantationocene." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27.2 (2021): 245-264.
Bubandt, Nils. (2017) "Haunted geologies: Spirits, stones, and the necropolitics of the Anthropocene." Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet : 121-141.
Blaser, M. (2018). Doing and undoing Caribou/Atiku: Diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 1(1), 47-64.
Lyons, Kristina M. Vital decomposition: soil practitioners and life politics. Duke University Press, 2020.
Hetherington, Kregg. (2013) "Beans before the law: Knowledge practices, responsibility, and the Paraguayan soy boom." Cultural Anthropology 28.1: 65-85.
Hetherington, Kregg. "Agribiopolitics: The health of plants and humans in the age of monocrops." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38.4 (2020): 682-698.
Braun, Veit. (2020) "From commodity to asset and back again: property in the capitalism of varieties." Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism : 203-224.
Beilin, K. O., & Suryanarayanan, S. (2017). The war between amaranth and soy: Interspecies resistance to transgenic soy agriculture in Argentina. Environmental Humanities, 9(2), 204-229.
Blanchette, A. (2015). Herding species: Biosecurity, posthuman labor, and the American industrial pig. Cultural Anthropology, 30(4), 640-669.
García, M. E. (2019). Death of a guinea pig: Grief and the limits of multispecies ethnography in Peru. Environmental Humanities, 11(2), 351-372.
Bonifacio, Valentina (2023) Of feral and obedient cows: colonization as domestication in the Paraguayan Chaco. Cultural Anthropology.
Rosenberg, Gabriel N. "No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, Eugenics, and the State in the Early Twentieth-Century United States." Journal of American History 107.2 (2020): 362-387.
de La Cadena, Marisol, and Santiago Martínez Medina. "In Colombia some cows have raza, others also have breed: Maintaining the presence of the translation offers analytical possibilities." The Sociological Review 68.2 (2020): 369-384.
Weiss, Erica. (2016) "‘There are no chickens in suicide vests’: the decoupling of human rights and animal rights in Israel." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22.3: 688-706.
Raffles, Hugh. (2010) Chernobyl. In: Insectopedia. New York: Vintage.
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
L’esame finale consiste in una tesina scritta su uno dei temi affrontati durante il corso.
Modalità di esame
Metodi didattici
Altre informazioni
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