Political Ecologies: Nature, Humans and Non-Humans

Political Ecologies: Nature, Humans and Non-Humans

• Teaching students use of anthropological and ethnographic methods for studying relations between human and non-human worlds
• Understanding the political stakes of marking the difference between the human and the non-human.
• Discussing how ‘nature’ is conceived as an object of study and an object of human intervention
• Studying politics of the ‘anthropocene’ in light of questions around access, sustainability and economic inequality
• Tracking how nature and non-human bodies figure in movements for political rights and entitlements.

• Book Amitav Ghosh The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, University of Chicago Press, 2016. 9780226526812