Cultural Aspects of Development and …

Cultural Aspects of Development and the Environment (4012)

Module coordinator: Nina Witoszek

LITTERATURE

Books to buy: Neil Evernden, The Social Creation of Nature, (Baltimore: The Johnm Hopklins University Press, 1992).

Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, (New York: Island Press, 1995).

Nina Witoszek and Andrew Brennan: Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Næss and the Progress of Ecophilosophy, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).

Note: Former students of SUM 4014 have this book. Chapter 40 (Ramachandra Guha), chapter 41 (Arne Næss), chapter 42 (Stephan Harding), chapter 53 (Nina Witoszek), chapter 54 (Arne Næss), and postscript (Ramachandra Guha) are required readings.

Optional non-fiction: William Cronon (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (New York: Norton, 1995).

Noreena Herz, The Silent Takeover. Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy, (New York: Harper, 2003).

Film The Blade Runner (1982)

Material available on internet: Lynn White, Jr. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” Science, 155 (1967), 1203-1207. http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/lwhite.htm

Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations,” Foreign Affairs, 72 (1993), 22-28. http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html

In the sourcebook: Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin, “Cultural Underpinnings of the Environment,” in Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development, E. Croll. D. Parkion (eds.), (London: Routledge, 1992), 11-36

Tim Ingold, “Culture and the Perception of the Environment” in Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development, E. Croll. D. Parkion (eds.), (London: Routledge, 1992), 39-56.

Nina Witoszek: “The Unromantic Romantics”, in Nature and Society in Historical Context, M. Teich, Roy Porter (et. al. eds.), (Cambridge University Press, 1997), 209-227.

Mary Douglas, “Environments at Risk,” in Implicit Meanings, Mary Douglas (ed.), (London: Routledge, 1975), 230-248.

Simon Schama, “Blood in the Forest,” Landscape and Memory, (New York: Harper Colins, 19XX), 81-100, 584-585

Christian Norberg Schulz, “Place?” in Genius Loci, (New York: Rizzolo,1984), 6- 49, 203-204.

Zygmunt Bauman, Culture as Praxis, (London: Routledge, 1973), 1-57, 179-183.