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Environmental Struggles

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

Topics

  • Introduction
  • The Power of “Nature”
  • Various Ideas of Nature in European Thought
  • Tensions and Affinities Between European and Non-European Ideas of Nature
  • Tensions and Affinities Between European and Non-European Ideas of Nature (cont.)
  • Doing Fieldwork on Environmental Issues
  • The Sea
  • The Land
  • The Forests
  • Nuclear Technologies
  • Toxic Pollutants
  • Conclusion

Readings

  • Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild . New York: Anchor Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780385486804.
    Listed reading
  • Kirosawa, Akira, dir. First half of Dersu Uzala . ↗
    Listed reading
  • Worster, Donald. “Preface,” and “Selections about Linneaus, Thoreau, and Darwin.” In Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. pp. 26-129, 145-187. ISBN: 9780521468343.
    Listed reading
  • Kirosawa, Akira, dir. Second half of Dersu Uzala . ↗
    Listed reading
  • Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England . New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. pp. 1-107. ISBN: 08909001586.
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  • Anderson, Robin and Connolly, Bob, dirs. Black Harvest . ↗
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  • Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England . New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. pp. 108-170. ISBN: 08909001586.
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  • Walley, Christine. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. pp. 1-137. ISBN: 9780691115603.
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  • Chole Kuendeleza Maisha. (13 min.)
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  • Walley, Christine. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. pp. 138-264. ISBN: 9780691115603.
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  • Gupta, Akhil. Chapters 3, and 5 in Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822322139.
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  • Agrawal, Bina. “The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India.” Feminist Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 119-158.
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  • Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn. Chapters 1-3, and 7-8 in The Fate of the Forest: Defenders of the Amazon . (Handout available for xeroxing.)
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  • Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162, (1968): 1243-8.
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  • Walker, Christopher, dir. Trinkets and Beads.
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  • Petryna, Adriana. Chapter 3, 4, and 5 in Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780691090191.
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  • Boebel, Chris, and Nick Poppy, dirs. Containment: Life After Three Mile Island . ↗
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  • Recommended viewing: Devlin, Paul, dir. Power Trip . ↗
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  • Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment . Reading, Mass.: Harper Collins Publisher; 1 edition., 1997. ISBN: 9780201483031.
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  • Helfand, Judith, and Daniel Gold, dirs. Blue Vinyl: A Toxic Comedy . ↗
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  • Note: you will only be reading selections from Nature’s Economy; Postcolonial Developments and Life Exposed .
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