This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
7 hours of lectures, 7 hours of classes, 6 hours of classes and 4 hours of workshops in the LT. The course is comprised of three cycles of three weeks plus an additional, concluding week. Each cycle consists of two weeks taught in the traditional lecture/class format, and a third week with a two-hour class bringing together the entire course cohort. While the one-hour classes will focus on core readings set by the lecturer, the two-hour class will, in addition, offer space for viewing other resources (films, online material), discussing students independently researched material, student presentations, etc.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay, 1 presentation and 6 other pieces of coursework in the LT.
J. Cruikshank (2005) Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination D. Haraway (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene E. Kohn (2013) How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human D. McDermott Hughes (2017) Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity N.C. Kawa (2016) Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests R. Scranton (2015) Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization Strauss et al. (2013) Cultures of Energy: Anthropological Perspectives on Powering the Planet A. Tsing (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.
Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the LT. Essay (3500-4000 words)