Please read in advance to prepare for each Wednesday lecture:
SPRING
WEEK ONE : Haraway Companion Species, Mis-recognition, and Queer Worlding Le Guin Mazes + The wife’s story
Additional Resources: Haraway Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene Making Kin
WEEK THREE:
WEEK FIVE:
WEEK SEVEN:
WEEK NINE:
Previous readings:
Fall
WEEK ONE: The Human Age, Nature, 2015, by R. Monastersky (Required)
Additional resources: The “Anthropocene” by Crutzen & Stoermer
WEEK THREE: Climate and Capital: On Conjoined Histories by Dipesh Chakrabarty (Required)
WEEK FIVE: IPCCSummaryPolicyMakers , Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
WEEK NINE: The Pathway from Science to Policy, Oceanography, 2015 by Mathis, Cooley, Yates & Williams
Winter
WEEK ONE : Tanoak Landscapes: Tending a Native American Nut Tree, Madrono, 2013
Additional Resources: Bowcutt press release
WEEK THREE: Living with a Variable Sun by Judith Lean
WEEK FIVE: Holmberg’s Mistake , The Anthropocene Debate , Haraway Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene Making Kin
WEEK SEVEN: Interview with Rebecca Solnit
Additional Resources: Introduction to Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell
WEEK NINE: The Non-political Politics of Climate Change
Below are additional readings that are informing our discussions:
Planetary Hospice: Rebirthing Planet Earth
Climate of History – Dipesh Chakrabarty
Pollitt_Pope Francis Fight Climate Change, Should Be a Feminist _ The Nation”
Pope Francis_Climate Justice_Liberation Theology