Week 6: Historical Ecology and the Anthropocene
Class agenda
- Sustainability Game: Arms Crossed
- Grant discussion: Wenner-Gren Q4
- Lectures
- Reading discussion
Reading
- Balée, W., 2006. The research program of historical ecology. Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 35(1), pp.75-98.
- Davis, H. and Todd, Z., 2017. On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene. “, 16(4), pp.761-780.
- Haraway, D., Ishikawa, N., Gilbert, S.F., Olwig, K., Tsing, A.L. and Bubandt, N., 2016. Anthropologists are talking–about the Anthropocene. Ethnos, 81(3), pp.535-564.
- Cassino, M.F., Alves, R.P., Levis, C., Watling, J., Junqueira, A.B., Shock, M.P., Ferreira, M.J., Caetano Andrade, V.L., Furquim, L.P., Coelho, S.D. and Tamanaha, E.K., 2019. Ethnobotany and ethnoecology applied to historical ecology. Methods and techniques in ethnobiology and ethnoecology, pp.187-208.
- Wolverton, S., Figueroa, R.M. and Armstrong, C.G., 2023. Integrating historical ecology and environmental justice. Journal of Ethnobiology, 43(1), pp.57-68.
Recommended
- McClenachan et al. 2015; Balee and Erikson 2006; Haraway 2015; Mueggler 1998; Denevan 1992; Cronon 1996
Assignments due for class discussion