Gender and Environmental Activism: Anthropological Perspectives - Detailseite

In this course we will deal with the gendered aspects of environmental change and activism. From the movements of indigenous women in Amazonia, the mobilizations around water as in the MniWiconi movement at Standing Rock or the old Stara Planina villagers in Serbia to the single figures like Greta Thunberg and Isra Hirsi, women have been at the forefront of most recent global protests against climate change. But it is important to emphasize that women have always been at the forefront of climate justice, because they are disproportionately affected by environmental issues.

Namely, this course provides an overview of historical and current developments as well as interdisciplinary references of engagement with the gendered dimensions of environmental change and activism, with emphasis on the 21^st century, current research and events. We will deal with ecofeminism and its critique, the debate about anthropocene and capitalocene, ontological turn, human and non-human agency, nature-culture entanglements or the so called naturecultures (Haraway 2003; 2016), anticapitalist environmentalist movements and their gendered orders, as well as the mutual generation of race, ethnicity, class, age, gender and kinship and the way these arrangements shape and are shaped by the environmental activism. The course also examines with gendered lenses the coalescing forms of capitalism, patriarchy and the environmental crisis, their different lineages and logics, and the varieties of collective action that they face.

In diesem Seminar findet keine MAP statt.

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Esterick, P. Van. 1995. “Rewriting Gender and Development Anthropology in Southeast Asia.” In ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Developing Southeast Asia, edited by W. J. Karim, 247-59. Oxford, Washington: Berg Publishers.

Gibson-Graham, J. K., and Ethan Miller. 2015. “Economy as Ecological Livelihood.” In Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, edited by Katherine Gibson, Deborah Bird Rose, and Ruth Fincher, 7–16. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum Books.

Großmann, Kristina and Michaela Haug. 2018. “Gender and Environmental Change: Recent Debates and New Perspectives in Anthropological Research.” Antropologia 5(1).

Haraway, Donna J., Ishikawa, N., Gilbert, S.F., Olwig, K., Tsing, A.L., and Bubandt, N. 2016. “Anthropologists Are Talking – About the Anthropocene.” Ethnos 81(3): 535-564.

Iqbal, Iftekar. 2010. The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State, and Social Change, 1840–1943. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kirksey, S.E., Helmreich, S. 2010. “The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography.” Cultural Anthropology 25(4): 545-576.

Kohn, E. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Berkeley: University of California.

Kohn, E. 2015. “Anthropology of Ontologies.” Annual Review of Anthropology 44: 311–327.

Latour, Bruno. 2018. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. New Jersey: Wiley.

McBrien, Justin. 2019. This is Not the Sixth Extinction Event. It’s the First Extermination Event. https://truthout.org/articles/this-is-not-the-sixth-extinction-its-the-first-extermination-event/

Moore, Jason W. 2017. “Capitalocene, Part I: on the Nature and Origins of Our Ecological Crisis.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 44(3): 594-630.

Stensrud, Astrid B. and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (eds.). 2019. Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating. Pluto Press.

Szczygielska, Marianna and Olga Cielemecka (eds.). 2019. „Special Section on Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies.“ Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5(2).

Tsing, Anna. 2015. Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 2017. "Is There a Progressive Politics After Progress?." Member Voices, Fieldsights, June 8. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/is-there-a-progressive-politics-after-progress

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