Fall 2024 Anthropology GR6649 section 001

DARK ECOLOGIES: ECOCRITICAL THOUGHT NOW

DARK ECOL: ECOCRTICAL THOUGHT

Call Number 10795
Day & Time
Location
T 12:10pm-2:00pm
467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Marilyn Ivy
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This seminar aims to disclose what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity. With global warming and associated crises of pollution, habitat and species extinction, new forms of disease, and the ongoing issue of the nuclear, there is a pervasive anxiety about the fate of the earth and, with it, life itself. How can ecocritical thought grapple with this “great unraveling,” as ecotheorist Joanna Macy has put it? This seminar will engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, political thought, and art to help us think about this central question.  Readings will include works by Morton, Bonneuil and Fressoz, Bennett, Zizek, Kohn, Descola, Stengers, Haraway, Latour, Macy, and others. Enrollment limit is 15 and the instructor's permission is required.

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 12 students (15 max) as of 4:06PM Sunday, December 1, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number GR6649
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Note Students must email professor for permission to enroll at mj
Section key 20243ANTH6649G001