• Teaching students use of anthropological and ethnographic methods for studying relations between human and non-human worlds
• Understanding the political stakes of marking the difference between the human and the non-human.
• Discussing how ‘nature’ is conceived as an object of study and an object of human intervention
• Studying politics of the ‘anthropocene’ in light of questions around access, sustainability and economic inequality
• Tracking how nature and non-human bodies figure in movements for political rights and entitlements.

This course will examine the relation between human and non-human worlds as an enduring question in anthropology. We will explore diverse ideas relating to the themes of “nature”, wilderness, “natural resources”, animalities, the environment and the state, and ecological justice. Against the current global environmental crisis, in which both human and non-human futures are deeply entangled and endangered, we consider what critical tools anthropology may offer for rethinking ethics and politics beyond the human. This includes exploring the politics of marking distinctions between the human and the non-human, as well as engaging themes of access, equity and justice with an emphasis on colonialism, race and political economy. Guided by ethnographic analysis, our studies will be in conversation with explorations of nature and the non-human in neighboring disciplines like philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology and feminist science and technology studies (STS).
Some of the questions we consider include: what does it mean to be “human” in the anthropocene? How did human and non-human futures come to be so deeply entangled and endangered? How does one rethink ideas of the “difference” between the human and the non-human? How can we think of more-than-human compositions and assemblages?
By focusing on the long disciplinary engagement with non-human worlds and entities in anthropology, we hope to better equip students to devise independent research projects on themes in environmental anthropology.

Please note that there is a maximum number of participants for this course, so register in time.

Hoor/werkcollege

Inzage

Werkgroep

Actieve deelname

Verplicht | Weging 5% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 0,38

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 45% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 3,38

Presentatie

Verplicht | Weging 15% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 1,13

Digitaal

Verplicht | Weging 35% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 2,63

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• Engels

• 2025 - 2026
• 2024 - 2025
• 2023 - 2024
• 2022 - 2023

• Citizenship, identity and globalisation
• Culturele Antropologie - v.a. 2025
• Culturele Antropologie cohort t/m 2024
• Culturele Antropologie Honours t/m 2024
• Culturele Antropologie Honours v.a. 2025
• Minor Sustainable Futures

• Digitalisation
  • - Digitale methodes
  
  
• Sustainability
  • - Duurzame steden en gemeenschappen
  • - Verantwoorde consumptie en productie
  • - Leven op het land
  • - Vrede, veiligheid en sterke publieke diensten
  • - Partnerschap om SDG’s te bereiken
  
  
• Globalisation
  • - Andersglobalisme
  • - Imperialisme
  • - Postkolonialisme
  • - Verbondenheid van goederen
  • - Verbondenheid van kapitaal
  • - Verbondenheid van mensen
  
  
• Inter cultural
  • - (Culturele) diversiteit
  • - Wereldburgerschap
  • - Zelfbewustzijn
  
  
• Interdisciplinary
  • - Creativiteit
  • - Complexe vraagstukken
  • - Maatschappelijke relevantie
  • - Verbanden leggen
  
  
• Entrepreneurship
  • - Maatschappelijke impact
  
  
• Open Society, Diversity
  • - Gender
  • - Diversiteit
  • - Discriminatie
  • - Inclusiviteit
  
  
• Open Science
  • - Onderzoeksethiek en integriteit
  • - Wetenschap en samenleving
  
  
• Technology and society
  • - Communities
  • - Biotechnologie
  • - Smart cities
  • - Veranderende arbeidsmarkt (flexibilisering)