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Environmental Anthropology of the Contemporary - YMSKE506
Title: Environmentální antropologie současnosti
Guaranteed by: Programme Social and Cultural Ecology (24-KSKE)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2023
Semester: both
E-Credits: 3
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 2/0, MC [HT]
Capacity: winter:35 / unknown (35)
summer:unknown / unknown (35)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Zandlová, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : YMSKE017
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D. (23.01.2021)
The course introduces certain topics from recent and contemporary environmental anthropology). It presupposes knowledge of history of socio-cultural as well as environmental anthropology.
Syllabus - Czech
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Zandlová, Ph.D. (19.04.2024)

!! KURZ ZAČÍNÁ AŽ V DRUHÉM TÝDNU SEMESTRU, TEDY 27.2.2024 !!

 

Detailní sylabus, včetně aktuální podmínek atestace, je vložen ve složce Soubory. Kurz je v průběhu LS 2024 inovován, povinná literatura bude dodána postupně, nicméně vždy v dostatečném předstihu.

 

1. hodina Představení kurzu, uvedení do tématu. Monokultury - Antropocén – Plantážocén (27. 2.)

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.

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

 

2. hodina Infrastruktury (5. 3.)

Povinná četba

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

 

3. hodina Ruiny (12. 3.)

Povinná četba

Bubandt, N., Tsing, A. 2018. "Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin: An Introduction," Journal of Ethnobiology, 38(1), 1-7

 

4. hodina Odpad (19. 3).

HOST Daniel Sosna

 

5. Thick Landscapes: Delicate Cohabitions in a Central European Conservation Area.

HOST Marcus Rudolfi (26. 3.)

 

6. hodina Voda  (2. 4.)

Povinná četba

Hastrup, Kirsten and Hastrup, Frida. "Introduction: Waterworlds At Large". Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments, edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 1-22. https://doi-org.ezproxy.is.cuni.cz/10.1515/9781782389477-003

 

7. hodina Sucho – představení projektu Příběhy sucha (9. 4.)

Povinná četba

www.pribehysucha.cz

 

8. hodina Toxicita: radioaktivita a duchové minulosti (16. 4.)

Povinná práce:

Přednáška https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDgK70JkTTs

Poslechněte si přednášku M. Murhpy (následný rozhovor již nemusíte, ale doporučuji, jsou tam zajímavé momenty). Poznamenejte si klíčové koncepty, které Murphy zmiňuje, a najděte si, co znamenají. (Např. molecular byrocracy (více viz. Hepler-Smith, Evan. 2019. Molecular Bureaucracy: Toxicological Information and Environmental Protection. Environmental History. 24. 534-560. 10.1093/envhis/emy134), petrocapitalism (více viz Johnson, R. O. 2019. A Lot Like War: Petrocapitalism, “Slow Violence,” and the Struggle for Environmental Justice. Social Justice, 46(1 (155)), 105–118), alterlife (více viz Murphy, Michelle. 2017. “Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations.” Cultural Anthropology 32, no. 4: 494–503,  https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02 )

 

9. hodina Anthropology of Futures (23. 4.)

Povinná četba

 Dahlgren K., Pink, S. 2023. Complicating smart charging electric vehicle futures, s. 31 – 39. In Abram, S., Waltorp, K., Ortar, N. & Pink, S. (2023). Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi-org.ezproxy.is.cuni.cz/10.1515/9783110745641

10. hodina Angažovaná antropologie (navazuje na moje Sucho a na Anthropology of Futures)  (30. 4.)

Povinná četba

 

11.  hodina Průmysl popírání klimatické změny

HOST Vojtěch Pecka (7. 5.)

Povinná četba:

Oreskes, N. A Conway, E. „Introduction“, „Chapter I – Doubt is Our Product“ 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.

 

 

Povinná četba ke kurzu

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.

 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.

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

 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

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

 Lien, Marianne Elisabeth. 2017. “Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication “All the Way Down””. Pp. m107-m124, in Anna, TSING, Heather SWANSON, Elaine GAN, Nils BUBANDT (eds.). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Pres.

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

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

 Taussig, Michael. 2018.Palma Africana. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.

 

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Zandlová, Ph.D. (07.02.2024)

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