Contemporary Environmental Anthropology - YME1501

• Title: Environmentální antropologie současnosti
• Guaranteed by: Programme Social and Cultural Ecology (24-KSKE)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D.
• Is complex co-requisite for: YMFA32, YMFH003, YMFH015, YMFH018, YMFH032, YMFH033, YMFH040, YMFH046, YMFH103, YMFI509, YMFPR13, YMFPR171, YMGS231, YMGS632, YMGS645, YMHA1LS2, YMHA1LS21, YMHA44, YMH0222, YMH037, YMH045, YMH051, YMH052, YMH1222, YMH137, YMH145, YMH151, YMH152, YMH545, YMH550, YMH557, YMN0HHR, YMN141, YMN157, YMN221, YMO263, YMPV018, YMSKA32, YMSKA41, YMSKA51, YMSKA52, YMSKA54, YMSKA57, YMSKA58, YMSKE002, YMSKE017, YMSMK007P, YMSMK032PV, YMSMK035PV, YMSMK051PV

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D. (18.02.2020)

The course introduces certain topics from recent and contemporary environmental anthropology). It presupposes knowledge of history of socio-cultural as well as environmental anthropology.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D. (18.02.2020)

Kurz představí vybrané témata z nedávné a soudobé environmentální antropologie. Předpokládá obeznámenost jak s historií sociokulturní antropologie, tak antropologie environmentální.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D. (17.04.2020)

 

1. hodina 19.2. Úvod, dokument – Všichni možní sběrači a já

 

2. hodina 26.2. Čtecí týden

 

3. hodina 4.3. Plantáž

Povinná četba

TSING, Anna L. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability. In BRIGHTMAN, Marc and LEWIS, Jerome. The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress.

London: Palgrave, 2017, pages 51–65.

 

4. hodina 11.3. Odpad

Povinná četba

Giles, D. 2014."The anatomy of a dumpster: abject capital and the looking glass of value." Social text 32(1): 93-113.

 

5. hodina 18.3. Infrastruktura

 

6. hodina 25.3. Zdraví

Povinná četba

Murphy, M. 2008. “Chemical Regimes of Living.” Environmental History 13 (4): 695-703.

 

7. hodina 1.4. Protest

Povinná četba

Escobar, Arturo (2006). „Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources: A Political Ecology Framework“, Development, Vol. 3, 6-13

 

8. hodina 8.4. Ropa

 

9. hodina 15.4. Sesuv

 

10. hodina 22.4. Ruina

 

11. hodina 29.4. Klimatická změna

 

12. hodina 6.5. Desinformace (Host: Vojtěch Pecka)

Povinná četba:

Oreskes, N. A Conway, E. „Introduction“, „Chapter I – Doubt is Our Product“, „Chapter VI – The Denial of Global Warming“ in Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Press. Pp.1-35, 169-215.

 

 

13. hodina 13.5. Sucho (Host: Markéta Zandlová)

 

14. Test

 

 

Povinná četba

Escobar, Arturo (2006). „Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources: A Political Ecology Framework“, Development, Vol. 3, 6-13

 

Giles, D. 2014."The anatomy of a dumpster: abject capital and the looking glass of

value." Social text 32(1): 93-113.

 

Murphy, M. 2008. “Chemical Regimes of Living.” Environmental History 13 (4): 695-703.

 

Oreskes, N. A Conway, E. „Introduction“, „Chapter I – Doubt is Our Product“, „Chapter VI – The Denial of Global Warming“ in Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Press. Pp.1-35, 169-215.

 

TSING, Anna L. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability. In BRIGHTMAN, Marc and LEWIS, Jerome. The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress.

London: Palgrave, 2017, pages 51–65.

 

 

Doporučená četba

Appel, H. “Infrastructural Time,” in Anand, Gupta, and Appel (eds.) The Promises of Infrastructure, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 41–61.

 

Haraway, D. (2015). "Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin." Environmental Humanities 6: 159-165.

 

Limpert, M. 2010. In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani

Town. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

Reno, Joshua. Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Stoler, A.L. 2016. "Imperial Debris and Ruination," in Duress: Imperial Durabilities in our Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 336-379.

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