Spring 2025 Anthropology UN3861 section 001

ANTHROP OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

ANTHRO OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Call Number 00647
Day & Time
Location
M 6:10pm-8:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Patrick F Nason
Type SEMINAR
Course Description This course focuses on the political ecology of the Anthropocene. As multiple publics become increasingly aware of the extensive and accelerated rate of current global environmental change, and the presence of anthropogenesis in ever expanding circumstances, we need to critically analyze the categories of thought and action being developed in order to carefully approach this change. Our concern is thus not so much the Anthropocene as an immutable fact, inevitable event, or definitive period of time (significant though these are), but rather for the political, social, and intellectual consequences of this important idea. Thus we seek to understand the creativity of The Anthropocene as a political, rhetorical, and social category. We also aim to examine the networks of capital and power that have given rise to the current state of planetary change, the strategies for ameliorating those changes, and how these are simultaneously implicated in the rhetorical creation of The Anthropocene.
Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology @Barnard
Enrollment 4 students (15 max) as of 10:06AM Thursday, November 21, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number UN3861
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Note """BC ANTH. SENIORS ONLY"""
Section key 20251ANTH3861V001