This course introduces young researchers to the problems, questions, and opportunities for reflection that come with the co-production of knowledge and power in human-environmental research. It will review how science shapes, and is itself shaped by, the exercise of power, and will encourage participants to reflect on their own research and political positioning. The course will focus on major theoretical critiques that address the politics of knowledge production and the politics production of knowledge, such as decolonial and feminist perspectives, and invite students to critically re-think science.
Findet im Rahmen des normalen Lehrprogrammes am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie statt, ÜWP Studierende können zusätzlich teilnehmen.
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Philippe Bourgois. Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Ethnographic Lessons from Central AmericaJournal of Peace Research. Vol. 27, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 43-54
Walsh, C. (2015). Life, Nature, and Gender Otherwise: Feminist Reflections and Provocations from the Andes, in Harcourt/Nelson (eds.) Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving beyond the “Green Economy”.
Grosfoguel, R. (2013). The structure of knowledge in westernised universities: Epistemic racism/sexism and the four genocides/epistemicides. Human Architecture: Journal of the sociology of self-knowledge, 1(1), 73-90.
Freire, P., Freire, A. M. A., & Freire, P. (1994). Pedagogy of hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.