Sustainable Futures: New Directions in Environmental Anthropology

• Schedule
  The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course.

  To be announced

• Course literature

  Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.

  Books

  Blanchette, A. (2020) Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm, Duke University Press. (320 pp)

  Cadena, Marisol de la, 2015, Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds, Duke University Press. (285 pp)

  Li, Tania Murray, 2014, Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier, Duke University Press. (250 pp)

  Tsing, A., 2015, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life  in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton University Press. (290pp) 

  Articles

  Chao, S., 2018, “In the Shadow of the Palm: Dispersed Ontologies among Marind, West Papua.”Cultural Anthropology.33(4): 621 –649.

  Gagliano, M. et al., 2017, “Introduction”, The Language of Plants. Minneapolis and London: Minnesota University Press (Introduction available online).

  Haraway, D. et al, 2016, ”Anthropologists are Talking – About the Anthropocene”, Ethnos, 81(3):535-564.

  Hornborg, A, 2017, Dithering when the planet burns: Anthropologists’ approaches to the Anthropocene, Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 46(2-3):61-77.

  Ingold, T., 2013 “Anthropology Beyond Humanity”, Suomen Anthropology: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 38(3):5-23. 

  Karlsson, B. G., 2015, ”Political Ecology: Anthropological Approaches”, Enc. of Social and Behavioral Sciences (provided by department).

  Kirksey, E ed., 2014, The Multispecies Salon, Durham and London: Duke University Press, (Introduction of the book is available online, http://www.multispecies-salon.org, pp. 1-33). 

  Latour, Bruno, 2014, ”Anthropology at the Time of Anthropocene – a personal view of what is to be studied”, special lecture at AAA, Washington 2014. (provided by department).

  Lien M. E. and Law, J., 2011, ”Emergent Aliens: On Salmon, Nature and their Enactment”, Ethnos, Vol. 76(1): 65-87.

  Lien, M. E. & G. Pålsson (2021) “Ethnography Beyond the Human: The Other-than-Human in Ethnographic Work”, Ethnos, Vol. 86(1):1-20.