| Call Number | 10728 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
M 2:10pm-4:00pm 467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH] |
| Points | 4 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Marilyn Ivy |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Method of Instruction | In-Person |
| Course Description | Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This seminar aims to show what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity. The course will not only engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, politics, and aesthetics to think about the environment, it will also bring these works into engaged reflection on living in the end times (borrowing cultural critic Slavoj Zizeks phrase). The seminar will thus locate critical perspectives on the environment within the contemporary worldwide ecological crisis, emphasizing the ethnographic realities of global warming, debates on nuclear power and energy, and the place of nature. Drawing on the professors long experience in Japan and current research on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the seminar will also take care to unpack the notion of end times, with its apocalyptic implications, through close considerations of works that take on the question of ecocatastrophe in our times. North American and European perspectives, as well as international ones (particularly ones drawn from East Asia), will give the course a global reach. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | Anthropology |
| Enrollment | 11 students (15 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
| Subject | Anthropology |
| Number | UN3888 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Interschool |
| Note | Instructors permission required at mji4 |
| Section key | 20243ANTH3888V001 |