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Module Content

This undergraduate option module provides a thorough grounding in current themes and debates in Environmental Anthropology in the present period of accelerated environmental and climatic change that has been termed the Anthropocene. The module introduces a range of ideas and approaches, both historical and contemporary, in the anthropological study and theorisation of human-environmental relationships. Students will receive a detailed introduction to the field of Environmental Anthropology, and its place within the history of the discipline of Anthropology. The course explores classical approaches such as cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, before moving on to broach more contemporary approaches including environmental anthropology, political ecology, and the anthropology of nature, as well as recent attempts to incorporate nonhuman actors into anthropological analysis in more experimental ways. Theoretical and methodological approaches to 鈥渁n anthropology beyond the human鈥� will be critically evaluated (e.g., multispecies ethnography, more-than-human anthropology, posthumanist theory). The course situates the above in the context of social and environmental activist movements directed at tackling issues such as climate change, mass extinction, sustainability, and environmental justice. The module will include guest sessions from lecturers across the department working on socio-ecological interactions in different ethnographic contexts and from a variety of anthropological perspectives. The course actively aims to bridge across the various sections of the department (social, biological, material, medical), drawing on lecturers鈥� current research and expertise, in advancing an interdisciplinary approach to human-environmental relations.

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Indicative topics

The module will cover the following topics, which may be subject to change depending on teaching staff, their academic research, and the interests of the course:

• Nature, Culture, Environment
• Anthropology in the Anthropocene
• Anthropology Beyond the Human
• Sustainability and Environmental Justice
• Political Ecology of Conservation
• The Capitalocene
• Energy and Climate Change
• Protected Areas and Global Conservation
• The Blue Economy
• Embodying the Environment

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Learning Outcomes

• Students will gain an understanding of a range of relevant approaches including human ecology, political ecology, ethnoecology, anthropology of nature, multispecies ethnography, and Anthropocene anthropology;
• Students will attain an understanding of established and emerging methods and theories for exploring human-environment relationships, as well as for conducting ethnographic research across species boundaries and with nonhuman subjects (animals, plants, fungi, microbes etc.);
• Students will receive a thorough empirical grounding in relevant ethnographic case studies from a broad range of contexts globally, including rural and urban contexts across the Global North and South;
• Students will learn how to apply these academic methods, theories, and approaches to real-world situations involving climate change and environmental crisis;
• Students will develop skills in library-based research and anthropological writing, including comparative analysis and building an argument based on a synthesis of theoretical and ethnographic materials.

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Delivery Method

Teaching for this module consists of a two-hour lecture and a one-hour tutorial per week. Tutorials are based on a group discussion of set literature correlating with the lecture topic.

Additional Information

Representative readings include:听

• Hastrup, Kirsten (ed.) (2014) Anthropology and Nature. Routledge.
• Descola, Philippe and G铆sli P谩lsson 听(eds.) (1996) Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. Routledge.
• Vaughn, Sarah E., Bridget Guarasci, and Amelia Moore (2021) Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment. Annual Review of Anthropology 50: 275鈥�290.
• Ingold, Tim (2000) The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill. Routledge.
• West, Paige (2006) Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Kohn, Eduardo (2013) How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. University of California Press.
• Tsing, Anna (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
• Govindrajan, Radhika (2018) Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India鈥檚 Central Himalayas. University of Chicago Press.