Syllabus/achievement requirements

Please notify the study coordinator (studentinfo@sum.uio.no) if there are any issues regarding the syllabus.

Books

Bonneuil, Christophe & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2016) The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History, and Us. London: Verso.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2016) Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change. London: Pluto Press.

Nixon, Rob (2011) Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Compendium

Churchill, Ward (2003) “A Breach of Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North America”, in Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 111-140.

Dowie, Mark (2009) “Introduction: Enemies of Conservation” and “Miwok” and “‘Nature’” in Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Cambridge: The MIT Press, pp. xv-22.

Hildyard Nicholas (2016) “Infrastructure as Financial Extraction” and “Extraction in Motion: Infrastructure-as-Asset-Class”, in Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the Global South. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Chapters 3 and 4.

Insolación, Fatima (2013) “The Insurgent Southwest: Death, Criminality, and Militarization on the U.S.-Mexican Border”, in Kristian Williams, Will Munger & Lara Messersmith-Glavin (eds) Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency. Edinburgh: AK Press.

Middlemiss, Lucie (2018) “Introduction” in Lucie Middlemiss, Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues. London: Routledge, pp. 3-19.

Scoones, Ian, Peter Newell & Melissa Leach (2015) “The Politics of Green Transformations”, in Ian Scoones, Peter Newell & Melissa Leach (eds) The Politics of Green Transformations. London: Routledge, pp. 1-24.

Wilhite, Harold Langford (2015) “The Problem of Habits for a Sustainable Transformation”, in Karen Victoria Lykke Syse & Martin Lee Mueller (eds) Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life. Abingdon: Routledge.

Online texts

Acosta, Alberto (2013 [2011]) “Extractivism and Neoextractivism: Two Sides of the Same Curse”, in Miriam Lang & Dunia Mokrani (eds) Beyond Development: alternative Visions from Latin America. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp. 61-86.

Adams RE. (2014) “Natura Urbans, Natura Urbanata: Ecological Urbanism, Circulation, and the Immunization of Nature”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32: 12-29.

Angelsen A., Brockhaus M., Duchelle A.E., et al. (2017) “Learning from REDD+: A Response to Fletcher et al.”, Conservation Biology 31: 718-720.

Borowy, Iris (2017) “Sustainable Development in Brundtland and Beyond: How (Not) to Reconcile Material Wealth, Environmental Limits and Just Distribution” in Estelita Vaz, Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Ligia M. Costa Pinto (eds) Environmental History in the Making. Volume I: Explaining. Cham: Springer, pp. 91-108.

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2012) “The Theatricality of Humanitarianism: A Critique of Celebrity Advocacy”, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9: 1-21.

Cronon, William (1995) “The Trouble with Wilderness, Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”:

Davidson, M. and L. Lees (2005) “New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London’s Riverside Renaissance”, Environment and Planning A 37: 1165-1190.

Dooling S. (2009) “Ecological Gentrification: A Research Agenda Exploring Justice in the City”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33: 621-639.

Downey, L., E. Bonds and K. Clark (2010) “Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation”, Organization Environment 23: 453-474.

Dunlap, Alexander (2018) “End the “Green” Delusions: Industrial-scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+”

Dunlap, Alexander (2019) “‘Agro sí, mina NO!’ The Tía Maria Copper Mine, State Terrorism and Social War by Every Means in the Tambo Valley, Peru”, Political Geography 71: 10-25.

Du Pisani, Jacobus (2006) “Sustainable Development – Historical Roots of the Concept”, Environmental Sciences 3(2): 83-96.

Fairhead, James, Melissa Leach & Ian Scoones (2012) “Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature?”, Journal of Peasant Studies 39: 237-261.

Fletcher, R. & B. Büscher (2017) “The PES Conceit: Revisiting the Relationship between Payments for Environmental Services and Neoliberal Conservation”, Ecological Economics 132: 224-231.

Fletcher, R. & B. Büscher (2019) “Neoliberalism in Denial in Actor-oriented PES Research? A Rejoinder to Van Hecken et al. (2018) and a Call for Justice”, Ecological Economics 156: 420-423.

Fletcher, R. W. Dressle, B. Büscher et al. (2016) “Questioning REDD+ and the Future of Market‐Based Conservation”, Conservation Biology 30: 673-675.

Fletcher, R., W. Dressler, B. Büscher et al. (2017) “Debating REDD+ and Its Implications: Reply to Angelsen et al.”, Conservation Biology 31: 721-723.

Gómez-Baggethun Erik, De Groot R, Lomas PL, et al. (2010) “The History of Ecosystem Services in Economic Theory and Practice: From Early Notions to Markets and Payment Schemes”, Ecological Economics 69: 1209-1218.

Green L. (2011) "The Nobodies: Neoliberalism, Violence, and Migration”, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 30: 366-385.

Hansen, Arve; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Wilhite, Harold Langford (2016). “Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around: Consumption, Sustainability and the ‘Rise of the South’”. Forum for Development Studies, 43(1): 5-25.

Harvey, P. & H. Knox (2012) “The Enchantments of Infrastructure”, Mobilities 7: 521-536.

Heynen, Nik, Maria Kaika & Erik Swyngedouw (2006) “Urban Political Ecology: Politicizing the Production of Urban Natures”, in Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika & Erik Swyngedouw (eds) The Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20.

Huff, Amber & Vivienne Benson (2015) “Understanding Relationships between the Green Economy, Resource Financialization and Conflict”, IDS Policy Briefing 95: 1-4.

McGoey, Linsey (2012) “Philanthrocapitalism and Its Critics”, Poetics 40(2): 185-199.

Sachs, Wolfgang (2017) “The Sustainable Development Goals and Laudato Si’: Varieties of Post-Development?”, Third World Quarterly 38(12): 2573-2587.

Sassen, Saskia (2016) “At the Systemic Edge: Expulsions”, European Review 24(1): 89-104.

Sullivan Sian (2009) “Green Capitalism, and the Cultural Poverty of Constructing Nature as Service Provider”, Radical Anthropology 3: 18-27.

Van Hecken, G, V. Kolinjivadi, C. Windey et al. (2018) “Silencing Agency in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) by Essentializing a Neoliberal ‘Monster’ Into Being: A Response to Fletcher & Büscher's ‘PES Conceit’”, Ecological Economics 144: 314-318.

Van Houtum, H. (2010) “Human Blacklisting: The Global Apartheid of the EU’s External Border Regime”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28: 957-976.

West, Paige, James Igoe & Dan Brockington (2006) “Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas”, Annual Review of Anthropology 35:251-277.

Winther, Tanja & Wilhite Harold (2015) “Tentacles of Modernity: Why Electricity Needs Anthropology”, Cultural Anthropology 30: 569-577.

 

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