Perspectives on Environmental Theory, 7.5 credits
Contents
This course offers an introduction to different feminist perspectives on environment, nature, and humanity. Viewpoints of Eco-feminism, Post-humanism, Dark Ecology, as well as others, are presented, contextualized and scrutinized. How do different positions regarding the relation between human and nature effect our views on pollution and climate change? What problematizations and solutions do they imply? Are the only options modern technology or romantic holism?
The aim is to provide a historical and philosophical orientation of various definitions of nature and human, as well as insight into different theories of power and how they may relate to the issue. The course is based on independent readings, group-work, and individual assignments. The course is on-line and the course language is English.
Expected learning outcomes
Having completed the course, the students are expected to have the ability to:
Knowledge and understanding
- Identify and describe the central content of different relations to nature, culture, environment, and human introduced on the course.
Skills and Abilities
- Contribute with qualified analytical comments in written assignments, independently relate to the different theoretical positions presented during the course and understand the differences and similarities between these positions.
Judgement and approach
- Present an independent analysis with relevant use of the course literature.
Required Knowledge
To be admitted to the course applicants must have completed three semesters of full time studies, equivalent to 90 ECTS, of which at least 15 ECTS must be an independent project or four semesters of full time studies equivalent to 120 ECTS. English proficiency equivalent to English A from Swedish Upper secondary education.
Form of instruction
The course is a full-time on-line course in English. The course is taught entirely through an electronic Learning Management System where the student takes part in instructions, mandatory assignments and other learning activities. The studies are characterized by a high degree of independent and active search for knowledge, and critical reflection, both individually and in groups.
To pass the course the student is expected to actively participate in all mandatory assignments and to pass the final examination
Examination modes
Examination takes place through fulfilment of two parts: 1) Mandatory assignments during the course 2) Individual written assignment.
For part 1 the grades are Fail (U) or Pass (G). For part 2, as well as for the whole course, the grades are Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with Distinction (VG).
In order to be awarded Pass for the entire course, it is necessary that all examinations and all compulsory teaching sessions have been passed. For the grade Pass With Discinction for the entire course, both the examination and the individually written assignments are taken in consideration.
Possibility to re-write or hand in late mandatory assignments (except the final examination) is given continuously during the course and no later than three weeks after the course ends.
For the final examination, a re-sit examination can be offered at the earliest ten days and at the latest three months after publishing information about the first examination. One more examination will be offered within the next year. A student who has passed the examination is not eligible for a new examination to raise grades. The option of a re-examination based on the original course syllabus will be available for at least two years after a student registered for the course.
All in all, a student is given five chances of fulfilling the course examination. A student has the right to change examiner after failing two examinations for a course module, unless there are strong arguments against this.
Other regulations
This course cannot be transferred to other courses in Gender Studies. For more information, contact the Head of Studies.
Literature
Valid from: 2023 week 1
Anderson Jill
'Warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!
Journal of Ecocriticism :
2011 :
Mandatory
Cecire Natalia
Environmental Innocence and Slow Violence
Included in:
Women's studies quarterly.
Old Westbury, N.Y. :
Feminist Press :
1981- :
164-180 pages
Mandatory
Chakrabarty Dipesh
The Climate of History
: Four Theses
Included in:
Critical inquiry [Elektronisk resurs].
Chicago :
Univ. of Chicago :
2002- :
35 :
197-222 pages
Mandatory
Colebrook Claire
Introduction: Framing the End of the Species: Images Without Bodies
Open Humanities Press :
2014 :
Mandatory
Cripps Elizabeth
Climate Change, Population, and Justice: Hard Choices to Avoid Tragic Choices
Global Justice Network :
2015 :
Mandatory
Arrested Development?
: The Promises and Paradoxes of ‘Selling Nature to Save It
Dempsey Jessica, Suarez Daniel Chiu
Included in:
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2016- :
106 :
653-671 pages
Mandatory
Gaard Greta
Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
Included in:
Hypatia
2000- :
Mandatory
Gibson-Graham J.K.
A feminist project of belonging for the Anthropocene
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon :
Carfax Publ. Co. :
1994- :
1 :
1-21 pages
Mandatory
Haraway Donna
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Included in:
Environmental Humanities
2012- :
159-165 pages
Mandatory
Merchant Carolyn
Gender and environmental history
Included in:
The journal of American history
Abilene, Kan., etc. :
Mississippi Valley Historical Association :
1964- :
Mandatory
Roth-Johnson Danielle
Back to the Future - François d'Eaubonne, Ecofeminism and Ecological Crisis
Common Ground Research Networks :
2013 :
Mandatory
Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene: Immuno-biopolitics and Depoliticizing Ontologies in the Anthropocene
Swyngedouw Erik, Ernstson Henrik
Included in:
Theory, culture & society.
London :
Sage Publications :
1982- :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1177_0263276418757314
The political unconscious of the Anthropocene: A conversation with Frédéric Neyrat
society & space :
2014 :
Mandatory
Weingarten Karen
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (review)
Included in:
Configurations
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press :
1993- :
Mandatory
Merchant Carolyn
Introduction
: Peace with the Earth: Women and the Swedish environment
Included in:
Earthcare
New York :
Routledge :
1996 :
280 s. :
167-184 pages
Mandatory
Introduction: A Geneology of Queer Ecologies
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Erickson Bruce
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press :
2010 :
Mandatory
Barad ,Karen
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes ToMatter
Included in:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. :
Chicago U. P. :
1975- :
28 :
801-831 pages
Bennett Jane
Vibrant Matter
CSPA :
2016 :
Introduction: A Geneology of Queer Ecologies
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Erickson Bruce
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press :
2010 :
Edelman Lee
No future
: queer theory and the death drive
Durham :
Duke University Press :
2004 :
191 s. :
ISBN: 0822333597
Search the University Library catalogue
Edenheim Sara
No kin
: between the reproductive paradigm and ideals of community
Included in:
Lambda nordica
Stockholm :
Föreningen Lambda nordica :
1989- :
The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed
Lorimer Jamie, Lorimer Jamie
Included in:
Social studies of science
[London] :
SAGE Publications :
1999- :
47 :
117-142 pages
Naturens död
: kvinnan, ekologin och den vetenskapliga revolutionen
Merchant Carolyn, Holmqvist Bosse, Östling Brutus, Lång Öjevind
Stockholm :
B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion :
1994 :
394 s. :
ISBN: 9171391959
Search the University Library catalogue
“The Birth Of Immunopolitics”,
Open Humanities Press :
2010 :
Joy Bill
Why the future doesn´t need us
Highland Park: Bioethics Press :
2001 :
Chaudhuri Una
The Sun’ll Be Hotter Tomorrow:
: Growing Up with Climate Chaos
Included in:
Resilience
2014- :
The Population Bomb Revisited
Ehrlich Paul R., Ehrlich Anne H.
he Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development :
2009 :
Daly Mary
Gyn/ecology
: the metaethics of radical feminism
London :
Women's Press :
1979 :
485 s. :
ISBN: 0704328291
Search the University Library catalogue
Okie William Thomas
Beauty and Habitation: Fredrika Bremer and the Aesthetic Imperative of Environmental History
Included in:
Environmental history
Durham :
American Society for Environmental History ; Forest History Society :
2003- :