• Course Overview
  • Week 1: Course overview and approaches
  • Week 2: Anthropocene
  • Week 3: Forests and statecraft
  • Week 4: Climate change
  • Week 5: Media and environment
  • Week 6: Globalization
  • Week 7: Capitalism and plantations
  • Week 8: Conservation
  • Week 9: Dispossession and protected areas
  • Week 10: More-than-human entanglements
  • Week 11: Space and place
  • Week 12: Waste
  • Week 13: Toxicity
  • Week 14: Presentations

ANTH481: Environmental Ethnographies: Asia

Week 2: Anthropocene

Reading and media

  • Kim, E., 2017. Invasive others and significant others: strange kinship and interspecies ethics near the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 84(1), pp.203-220.
  • Morita, Atsuro, and Wakana Suzuki. “Being Affected by Sinking Deltas: Changing Landscapes, Resilience, and Complex Adaptive Systems in the Scientific Story of the Anthropocene.” Current Anthropology 60, no. S20 (August 2019): S286–95.
  • Tsai, Y.L., 2019. Farming odd kin in patchy Anthropocenes. Current Anthropology, 60(S20), pp.S342-S353.
  • Media: Video – Mongolia Losing Nomadic Herding Lifestyle | Earth Focus PBS
  • Media: Video - Sayang Kalimantan – Picture This Festival
  • Media: Tree Cover Loss Dashboard
  • Media: ASEAN Biodiversity Dashboard
  • Media: Global Forest Watch Dashboard

Tuesday agenda

  • Media discussion
  • Time to discuss final projects
  • Evaluating multimodal projects

Thursday agenda

  • Discussion about discussions
  • Anthropocene article discussion

Assignments due

  • Project prospectus

Recommended

  • Recommended: West, Paige. 2020. “Translations, Palimpsests, and Politics. Environmental Anthropology Now.” Ethnos 85 (1): 118–123.