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Syllabus:

Perspectives on Environmental Theory, 7.5 Credits

Swedish name: Miljöteoretiska perspektiv

This syllabus is valid: 2022-06-06 valid to 2022-06-12 (newer version of the syllabus exists)

Course code: 2KC028

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Gender Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Three-grade scale

Responsible department: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)

Revised by: Director of Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), 2022-06-22

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/6 from Swedish Upper secondary education.

Literature

Valid from: 2022 week 44

Anderson Jill
'Warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!
Journal of Ecocriticism : 2011 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_chadwyckhealey_abell_R04638777
Mandatory

Cecire Natalia
Environmental Innocence and Slow Violence
Included in:
Women's studies quarterly.
Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press : 1981- : pages 164-180 :
https://www-proquest-com.proxy.ub.umu.se/docview/1665110240?accountid=14581
Mandatory

Chakrabarty Dipesh
The Climate of History : Four Theses
Included in:
Critical inquiry [Elektronisk resurs].
Chicago : Univ. of Chicago : 2002- : 35 : pages 197-222 :
https://browzine.com/libraries/232/articles/46920939
Mandatory

Colebrook Claire
Introduction: Framing the End of the Species: Images Without Bodies
Open Humanities Press : 2014 :
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/12329362.0001.001/1:2/--death-of-the-posthuman-essays-on-extinction-volume-one?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Mandatory

Cripps Elizabeth
Climate Change, Population, and Justice: Hard Choices to Avoid Tragic Choices
Global Justice Network : 2015 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_42cd61590bbc44b8b50285d96dfec9dd
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 : pages 653-671 :
https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.ub.umu.se/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2016.1140018
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 : pages 1-21 :
Mandatory

Haraway Donna
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Included in:
Environmental Humanities
2012- : pages 159-165 :
https://watermark.silverchair.com/159Haraway.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAqcwggKjBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKUMIICkAIBADCCAokGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM2wOgK18FWLqOc-37AgEQgIICWhaFwKLZB7_C7TBaFYedGV56lZdIekeNchfc6bMoJp9VA7Zs2jVb4lxIpl-sM_2hsEpjvfnVRvgRthsglGxi2s7KUPbaacRxjP1ddZZjSgQ9iSHczMbM0CVujgVjgZ6fHjDf3n1PPPfxeDMTb0_3WWyuK1fZLkY17KC8UG-BcxS388-lcqiGWE4LqZoj2zY_ke115iJzuSqRTZGbQmzcvhmyPsTZAkSUq-G86RWmIL5zFmUgUzrQjPhfK37wNkpgQXCJqOyAjob_DKHd17YvuJlhAigniRAl6slJf4V45n7TF1aW6aUdIqjuuyCrtyPa2zLQDDohuzEMiAFQZb9lbhZ5Dk8s6W054Y96QatBSBBPjBedLCklRiR7pNPywCvGkuNQSrUWtRrfNqEefncHSwksi_4pS7S5gAplI20SSEcBMcT8vwI1SIwbYrlm7fZKMQM1yA6ew4WjfQMyYeFei-AaS7VM_WWCZ8UTqMnJ5_dpi8zQLu8DUNMaiFNNs7Ols-jf_kJNHhPaQa3tqjr7O5RPBZk_HLwYHnR6he5sLEU4BDMgHBzlmcdjKWeliRmtbZ8WTxJogfQylCPNM68BS7VT4plwiamNTtu7t0sfWrDvhfyXNWkstMqW50L_oqMoKVlRuD_4to9Rk_xk1_FAlqBQqKFdwLnS5MpZB104BtW66uX4OMcDdJ3n_RM0F3zrzI5GQAQFXlz2lDn3V8vy-4sjHqyOuAdh3GanYRVJo2IIFfH9x52MJM9nKhvGnVtPFecQvaBKiajtLZ207ldYokCldNCf9V3qoWoA
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 :
https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/the-international-journal-of-literary-humanities-vol-10-issue-3-2013
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 :
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/on-the-political-unconscious-of-the-anthropocene
Mandatory

Weingarten Karen
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (review)
Included in:
Configurations
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press : 1993- :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_proquest_journals_1037387230
Mandatory

Merchant Carolyn
Introduction : Peace with the Earth: Women and the Swedish environment
Included in:
Earthcare
New York : Routledge : 1996 : 280 s. : pages 167-184 :
Mandatory

Introduction: A Geneology of Queer Ecologies
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Erickson Bruce
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press : 2010 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1v5n3j5/alma9921353171104996
Mandatory

Barad ,Karen
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes ToMatter
Included in:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago U. P. : 1975- : 28 : pages 801-831 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A100484977

Bennett Jane
Vibrant Matter
CSPA : 2016 :
https://www.jstor.org/stable/cspaquarterly.14.7?refreqid=excelsior%3A7c1de336c62d50d20ac69047dd111d56&seq=1

Introduction: A Geneology of Queer Ecologies
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Erickson Bruce
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press : 2010 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1v5n3j5/alma9921353171104996

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 : pages 117-142 :
https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.ub.umu.se/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306312716671039

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
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“The Birth Of Immunopolitics”,
Open Humanities Press : 2010 :
https://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia10/parrhesia10_neyrat.pdf

Joy Bill
Why the future doesn´t need us
Highland Park: Bioethics Press : 2001 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_proquest_journals_275059281

Chaudhuri Una
The Sun’ll Be Hotter Tomorrow: : Growing Up with Climate Chaos
Included in:
Resilience
2014- :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_chadwyckhealey_abell_R05450970

The Population Bomb Revisited
Ehrlich Paul R., Ehrlich Anne H.
he Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development : 2009 :
https://www.populationmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Population-Bomb-Revisited-Paul-Ehrlich-20096.pdf

Daly Mary
Gyn/ecology : the metaethics of radical feminism
London : Women's Press : 1979 : 485 s. :
ISBN: 0704328291
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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- :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_envhis_emy130