Sosant 2525 Overheating: The anthropology of accelerated change
The syllabus is comprised of articles in Readers, online articles and two films.
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Curriculum Articles in Readers/Compendia
Aguiar, José Carlos G. (2012) ‘They come from China’: Pirate CDs in Mexico in transnational perspective. In Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 36-53. London: Routledge.
Appadurai, Arjun (2013) "Deep democracy: Urban governmentality and the horizon of politics", in Appadurai: The Future as Cultural Fact, pp. 153-78. London: Verso.
Barth, Fredrik (1978) "Conclusions", in Scale and Social Organization, pp. 253–272. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Bateson, Gregory (1972b) "Double bind 1969". In Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 271–278. New York: Chandler.
Bateson, Gregory (1972a) "Ecology and flexibility in urban civilization", in Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 494–505. New York: Chandler.
Edelman, Marc and Angelique Haugerud (2004) "Introduction", in Edelman and Haugerud, eds. The Anthropology of Development and Globalization, pp. 1–52. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ensor, Jonathan and Rachel Berger (2009) "Community-based adaptation and culture in theory and practice", chapter 14 in W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O'Brien, eds., Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, pp. 227–239. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2014) "Globalization and its contradictions: Anthropological research in an overheated world", forthcoming volume edited by Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart.
Escobar, Arturo (2008) "Introduction", in A. Escobar: Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, redes, pp. 1–26. Duke University Press.
Goody, Jack (1998) "The globalisation of Chinese Food", in J. Goody, Food and Love, pp. 161–172. Canbridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mathews, Gordon (2012) "Neoliberalism and globalization from below in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong", in Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 69-85. London: Routledge.Maurer, Bill (2012) "Finance 2.0.", in Carrier, James, ed. A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition, pp. 183–201. London: Edward Elgar.
Mintz, Sidney (1985) "Introduction" and Chapter 1: "Food, Sociality, and Sugar", in Mintz: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Nash, June (2005) "Introduction: Social Movements and Global Processes", in June Nash, ed., Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader, pp 1-26. Malden: Blackwell.
Nuttall, Mark (2009) "Living in a world of movement: Human resilience to environmental instability in Greenland", in Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, eds. Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall, pp. 292-310. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.Orlove, Ben (2009) "The past, the present and some possible futures of adaptation", in Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, eds. W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O'Brien, pp. 131-163. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Daele, Wim (201*) "Oscillating between Village and Globe: Articulating Food in Sri Lankan Activism", in C. Counihan and V Siniscalchi, eds,. Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy, pp. 211-224. Bloomsbury Academic.Wilhite, Harold (2013) "Energy consumption as cultural practice: implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use", in S. Strauss, S. Rupp & T. Love, eds., Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, pp. 60 - 73. Left Coast Press.
Wolf, Eric (1982) "The movement of commodities", in E. Wolf: Europe and the People Without History, pp. 310–353. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yang, Yang (2012) "African traders in Guangzhou: Routes, reasons, profits, dreams", in Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 154-170. London: Routledge.
Curriculum Online articles
Bateson, G., Jackson, D., Haley, D. and J. Weakland (1956): "Toward a theory of Schizophrenia", in Gregory Bateson (2000) Steps to an ecology of mind, pp 201-227. Chicago: University of Chicago press. online chapter
Bauman, Zygmunt (2001) "Identity in the globalizing world", Social Anthropology, 9(2): 121–129. Wiley online library
Burawoy, Michael "Introduction: Reaching for the global", in M. Burawoy et al., Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, pp. 1–40. Berkeley: University of California Press. Google scholar
Caldwell, Melissa (2004) "Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald?s and Consumerism in Moscow", Journal of Consumer Culture, 4(1): 5–26. sagepub.com
Collier, Stephen and Aihwa Ong (2005) "Global Aassemblages: Anthropological problems", in A. Ong and S. Collier, eds., Global AssemblagesTechnology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, pp. 1–20. Oxford: Blackwell. online-article
Comaroff, John and Jean L. Comaroff (2000) "Millennial capitalism: First thoughts on a second coming", Public Culture, 12 (2): 291–343. Duke university press
Dalsgaard, Steffen (2013) "The commensurability of carbon", HAU, 3 (1): 80–98. haujournal.org
Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani (2006) "The study of social movements: Recurring questions, (+partially) changing answer", in D. Della Porta and M. Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction, pp. 1–22. Basingstoke: Wiley. hse.ru
Ferguson, James (2010) "The uses of neoliberalism", Antipode, 41 (s1): 166–184. Wiley online Library
Geschiere, Peter (2008) "Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa", Past & Present, 199 (supp 3): 313–335. Oxfordjournals.org
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson (1997) "Beyond ‘culture?: Space, identity, and the politics of difference", Cultural Anthropology, 7 (1): 6–23. antrhrosource.net
Hannerz, Ulf (2000) "Flows, boundaries and hybrids: Keywords in transnational anthropology". Working paper no. WPTC-2K-02. Oxford: University of Oxford. Transnational Communities Programme. transcomm.ox.ac.uk
Hastrup, Kirsten (2013) "Scales of attention in fieldwork: Global connections and local concerns in the Arctic", Ethnography, 14 (2) : 145–164. sagepub.com
Lien, Marianne E. and Aidan Davidson (2011) "Roots, rupture and remembrance: The Tasmanian lives of Monterey pine", Journal of Material Culture, 15(2): 1–21. sagepub.com
Marcus, George (1995) "Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography", Annual Review of Anthropology, 24: 95–117. annualreviews.org
Pleyers, Geoffrey (2010) Alter-Globalization. In Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani, eds. (2010) The Human Economy, pp. 63–74. Cambridge: Polity. LAST OPP PDF
Rijke, Kim de (2013) "Hydraulically fractured: Unconventional gas and anthropology", Anthropology Today, 29 (2): 13–17. Wiley online library
Steffen, Will, Paul J. Crutzen og John R. McNeill (2007) "The Anthropocene: Are Human Beings Now Overwhelming the Forces of Nature?", AMBIO, 36(8):614–21. jstor.org
Tett, Gillian (2009) The derivatives dream. In G. Tett: Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, pp. 3–25. London: Little, Brown. LAST OPP PDF
Tsing, Anna (2000) "The global situation", Cultural Anthropology, 15 (3): 327–356. AnthroSource.net
Vertovec, Steven (2007) "Super-diversity and its implications", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30 (6): 1024–1054. Taylor & Francis online
White, Leslie (1943) "Energy and the evolution of culture", American Anthropologist, 45 (3): 335–356. AnthroSource.net
Willow, Anna J. (2011) "Indigenizing Invasive Species Management: Native North Americans and the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Beetle", Journal of Culture and Agriculture, 33 (2): 70–82. Wiley online library
Wimmer, Andreas and Nina Glick Schiller (2002) "Methodological nationalism and beyond: Nation-state building, migration and the social Sciences", Global Networks, vol. 2 (4): 301–334. Wiley online Library
Films:
Ferguson, Charles H. (2010) Inside Job
Sauper, Hubert (2004) Darwin's Nightmare