Environmental Anthropology
From hormones to hurricanes; from food to fertilizers; and from neighborhood parks to national territories – human life unfolds within, and alters, material environments. How do people relate to specific ecosystems? Who has the right to explore or exploit nature, and how do marginalized people live with the toxic legacies of development projects? What role does gender play for ecological relations, and what role colonialism? What does it mean to be human in more-than-human worlds? And how might we conceptualize these entanglements?
In this course, we will map the field of environmental anthropology, considering current debates and classical formulations through case studies from across the world. We will familiarize ourselves with conceptual and methodological choices defining this burgeoning field. And we will reflect on the epistemological and political relevance of thinking through, and with, more-than-human relations today.
- Lehrende/r: Arne Harms