Topic outline

    • Make sure to read these two texts before the first meeting. We will discuss them together. Enjoy!

      (R) White, Damian F, Alan Rudy, Brian J. Gareau (2016) Environments, Natures and Social Theory, Introduction: the socio-ecological imagination, pp.1-16.

      (R) Otter C (2014) ’Scale, evolution and emergence in food systems’, Limn magazine, Issue 4, online: https://limn.it/articles/scale-evolution-and-emergence-in-food-systems/ (There is no pdf of this, you can find it online).

      These texts will also be of interest, but are not required readings.

      Beck, Ulrich (1998) ‘Politics of Risk Society’ in Jane Franklin, ed. The Politics of Risk Society.

      Hess, David J (2009) Localist movements in a global economy: sustainability, justice, and urban development in the United States. Chapter 1: Global problems and localist solutions’.

      Scoones, I., M. Leach and P. Newell, eds (2015) The Politics of Green Transformation. Chapter 1. The 'Politics of Green Transformations'.

      Sachs, Wolfgang (1999) Planet dialectics, pp. 1-23.

      Tsing, A. L. (2017). A threat to Holocene resurgence is a threat to livability. In M Brightman and J Lewis (eds) The Anthropology of Sustainability (pp. 51-65).

      White, Damian F, Alan Rudy, Brian J. Gareau (2016) Environments, Natures and Social Theory, chapters 1-3. (I recommend the whole book, it’s excellent.)

      (Note, the texts are ordered alphabetically in the folder.)

    • The session will be online, but you will go for a walk during it and return online to discuss in ‘breakout groups’.

      You will not need to read anything on walking. I will introduce it during the session. You DO need to read the required reading (R) and as much of the rest as you have time for and feels interesting:

      (R) de Laet, Marianne and Annemarie Mol, 2000, ‘The Zimbabwe Bushpump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology’, Social Studies of Science 2000 30: 225.

      Berglund, E. (2019) ‘Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot’. In Martínez, F., & Laviolette, P. (Eds) Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses, 228-244.

      De Wilde M, W Koopman & A Mol (2020) ‘Clean in times of COVID-19’, online Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology, 3 May 2020, http://somatosphere.net/author/mandy-de-wilde/

      Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2008) 'Diverse conomies: performative practices for "other worlds"', Progress in Human Geography, 1-20.

      Haraway, D. (1985) ‘Manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s’. Socialist Review, no. 80 (1985): 65–108.

      Manzini E (2015) Design, When Everybody Designs: introduction to design for social innovation. Chapter 2, ‘Design in a connected world’.

      Mattern, S. (2016) ‘Scaffolding, Hard and Soft. Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures’. Spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures, 3, 1-10.

      Schlosberg D and Coles R (2016) ‘The New Environmentalism of Everyday Life: Sustainability, Material Flows and Movements’, Contemporary Political Theory 15 (2): 160–81.

      Thackara, J. 2006. In the Bubble: designing in a complex world. ‘Introduction’ and chapter 1, ‘Lightness’.

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    • (R) Gills B (2020) Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening, Globalizations, 17:4, 577-579, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1748364

      Bhan, G; T Caldeira; K Gillespie; AbdouMaliq Simone (2020) ‘The Pandemic, Southern Urbanisms and Collective Life’ Society and Space blog, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-pandemic-southern-urbanisms-andcollective-life

      Escobar, A., Harcourt, W. Post-development Possibilities: A Conversation. Development 61, 6–8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-018-0184-3 at https://rdcu.be/b6eYC

      European Commission (n.d.) A European Green Deal, website https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en

      Spash, C. L. (2020). ‘The economy’as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis. Globalizations, 1-18.

      Tsing, A. L., Bubandt, N., Gan, E., & Swanson, H. A. (Eds.). (2017). Arts of living on a damaged planet: Ghosts and monsters of the Anthropocene. U of Minnesota Press.

      ALSO see:
      Van Dooren, T., Kirksey, E., & Münster, U. (2016). Multispecies StudiesCultivating Arts of Attentiveness. Environmental Humanities, 8(1), 1-23.


      White, D. (2020). Just transitions/design for transitions: preliminary notes on a design politics for a green new deal. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 31(2), 20-39.