• Course Overview
  • Course Resources
  • Week 1: Introduction and history of theory in Ecological Anthropology
  • Week 2: Collective action and cooperation
  • Week 3: Common pool resources
  • Week 4: Social-relational approaches
  • Week 5: Networks and Resource Management
  • Week 6: Historical Ecology and the Anthropocene
  • Week 7: Signaling theory and symbolic capital
  • Week 8: Ethnoecology
  • Week 9: Cultural domain analysis and Decolonizing ecological knowledge
  • Week 10: Human behavioral ecology
  • Week 11: Resource access: Territorality and Frontiers
  • Week 12: Resource access: Dispossession and Rights
  • Week 13: Political ecology - conservation and science
  • Week 14: Resilience and complex adaptive systems

ANTH722: Ecological Anthropology

Week 2: Collective action and cooperation

Class agenda

  • Sustainability Game: Thumb wrestling
  • Grant abstract discussion
  • Lectures
  • Reading discussion

Reading

  • Kollock, P., 1998. Social dilemmas: The anatomy of cooperation. Annual review of sociology, 24(1), pp.183-214.
  • Henrich, J. and Muthukrishna, M., 2021. The origins and psychology of human cooperation. Annual review of psychology, 72(1), pp.207-240.
  • Jagers, S.C., Harring, N., Löfgren, Å., Sjöstedt, M., Alpizar, F., Brülde, B., Langlet, D., Nilsson, A., Almroth, B.C., Dupont, S. and Steffen, W., 2020. On the preconditions for large-scale collective action. Ambio, 49, pp.1282-1296.
  • Ratner, B.D., Meinzen-Dick, R., May, C. and Haglund, E., 2013. Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework. International Journal of the Commons, 7(1).
  • Oliver, P.E., 1993. Formal models of collective action. Annual review of sociology, 19(1), pp.271-300.

Media

  • BBC Forum: Co-operation
  • BBC Naturebang: Mongooses and the Magic of Trust