Beyond the Human: Creative & Critical Ecologies

(Cross-listed as AFR 147-03, AMER 194-04, ENV 148-01). Comparative ecologies that attend to the climate crisis’ relation to the legacies of colonialism, slavery and other forms of extraction, eradication, and racialized oppression. How does rethinking or decentering the human, and sustained attention to nonhuman life and the animacy of water and land reshape our ideas about responsibility, freedom, solidarity? Emphasis on black, indigenous and queer ecologies, relying on models of wild thought and imagination. Recommendations: RCD 50.