Theories of Environmental Humanities 4219-AW225

Celem wykładu jest systematyczny przegląd różnorodnych teorii i pojęć w ramach szerszego ruchu w naukach humanistycznych związanego z problemem środowiska i natury. W centrum zainteresowań owych teorii leżą problemy Antropocenu, kryzysu wywołanego zmianami klimatycznymi oraz sfery tak zwanych podmiotów nie-ludzkich. Trajektorię wykładu wyznacza namysł nad teoriami wzajemnego powiązania sfery natury i sfery społecznej, wraz z problematyzacją i redefinicją owych pojęć, oraz próba umiejscowienia ich w kontekście historycznym, filozoficznym i kulturowym. Równocześnie celem wykładu jest pokazanie na konkretnych przykładach, w jaki sposób można odczytywać teksty amerykańskiej kultury przy pomocy owych teorii i jakie efekty przyniosą różne perspektywy badawcze w ramach namysłu nad środowiskiem. Tym samym, wykład oferuje również studentom praktyczny przegląd metodologii badawczych w ramach environmental humanities jako narzędzi do dalszej, samodzielnej pracy nad tekstami kultury. W celu nakreślenia mapy powiązań i różnic między poszczególnymi podejściami metodologicznymi tematyka wykładów obejmować będzie na przykład następujące teorie: postoświeceniowe definicje natury, konceptualizacje Antropocenu i jego pochodnych (Capitalocen, Urbanocen, Novacen, Negantropocen), różne nurty ekokrytyki (feministyczny ekokrytycyzm, żywiołowy/ pierwiastkowy ekokrytycyzm) oraz studiów nad zwierzętami, teoria Gai, posthumanizm oraz nowe materializmy (witalizm, „object-oriented ontology”, ciemna ekologia), teorie postmarksistowskie i polityka natury, energy humanitities oraz blue humanities, biopoetyka, geoontologia, ontowładza oraz teoria „global weirding” i złożoności.

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Celem wykładu jest systematyczny przegląd różnorodnych teorii i pojęć w ramach szerszego ruchu w naukach humanistycznych związanego z problemem środowiska i natury. W centrum zainteresowań owych teorii leżą problemy Antropocenu, kryzysu wywołanego zmianami klimatycznymi oraz sfery tak zwanych podmiotów nie-ludzkich. Trajektorię wykładu wyznacza namysł nad teoriami wzajemnego powiązania sfery natury i sfery społecznej, wraz z problematyzacją i redefinicją owych pojęć, oraz próba umiejscowienia ich w kontekście historycznym, filozoficznym i kulturowym. Równocześnie celem wykładu jest pokazanie na konkretnych przykładach, w jaki sposób można
odczytywać teksty amerykańskiej kultury przy pomocy owych teorii i jakie efekty przyniosą różne perspektywy badawcze w ramach namysłu nad środowiskiem. Tym samym, wykład oferuje również studentom praktyczny przegląd metodologii badawczych w ramach environmental humanities jako narzędzi do dalszej, samodzielnej pracy nad tekstami kultury. W celu nakreślenia mapy powiązań i różnic między poszczególnymi podejściami metodologicznymi tematyka wykładów obejmować będzie na przykład następujące teorie: postoświeceniowe definicje natury, konceptualizacje Antropocenu i jego pochodnych (Capitalocen, Urbanocen, Novacen, Negantropocen), różne nurty ekokrytyki (feministyczny ekokrytycyzm, żywiołowy/ pierwiastkowy ekokrytycyzm) oraz studiów nad zwierzętami, teoria Gai, posthumanizm oraz nowe materializmy (witalizm, „object-oriented ontology”, ciemna ekologia), teorie postmarksistowskie i polityka natury, energy humanitities oraz blue humanities, biopoetyka, geoontologia, ontowładza oraz teoria „global weirding” i złożoności.

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Karolina Lebek

Rodzaj przedmiotu

fakultatywne
monograficzne

Efekty kształcenia

Po ukończeniu kursu osoba studencka::
1. zna podstawowy zakres teorii w ramach humanistycznego namysłu nad środowiskiem naturalnym
2. potrafi interpretować zjawiska kulturowe w kontekście owych teorii oraz przy pomocy narzędzi badawczych, które oferują
3. rozumie istotność environmental humanities w erze globalnego ocieplenia i kryzysów związanych ze środowiskiem
4. rozumie powiązania między formami kapitalizmu oraz degradacją środowiska naturalnego
5. rozumie problem sprawiedliwości ekologicznej

Kryteria oceniania

Egzaminu końcowy z treści wykładu . Skala ocen:
100-97% 5!
96-91% 5
90-84% 4+
83-78%
67-60% 3
59-0% 2

Literatura

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Adamson, J., W.A. Gleason, and D.N. Pellow. Keywords for Environmental Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2016.
Ahuja, Neel. Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Alaimo, Stacy. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
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Minnesota Press, 2013.
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Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, NC: Duke
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Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press, 2010.
Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Braidotti, Rosi and Maria Hlavajova, eds. Posthuman Glossary. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.
Callison, Candis. How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Clark, Timothy. Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Clark, Timothy, ed. The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome and Lowell Duckert, eds. Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2017.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Lowell Duckert, eds. Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Cohen, Margaret. The Novel and the Sea. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Coole, Diana and Samantha Frost eds., New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Coupe. The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2000.
Cubitt, Sean. Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Daggett, Cara New. The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Dawson, Ashley. Extinction: A Radical History. New York and London: OR Books, 2016.
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Routledge, 2015.
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene.” English Language Notes 57 (1) (2019): 21 36.
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Dobrin, Sidney I., and Sean Morey, eds. Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
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Elias, Amy J. and Christian Moraru, eds. The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geo-aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015.
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Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge, 2012.
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Heise, Ursula K., Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann, eds. The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. New York:
Routledge, 2017.
Heise, Usula K. Sense of Place, Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Houser, Heather. Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
Irigaray, L. and M. Marder. Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Jue, Melody. Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Kirksey, Eben. Emergent Ecologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Latour, Bruno. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2004.
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
MacGregor, Sherilyn, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. London: Routledge, 2017.
Malm, Andreas. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. New York: Verso, 2016.
Malm, Andreas. The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. London: Verso, 2018.
McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989.
McNeill, J.R. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016.
Menely, Tobias and Jesse Oak Taylor, eds. Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times. State College: Penn State
University Press, 2017.
Mentz, Steve. Ocean. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London: Verso, 2011.
Moore, Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. New York: Verso, 2015.
Morrison, Susan Signe. The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Morton, Tim. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Morton, Timothy. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Neimanis, Astrida. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Nishime, Leilani and Kim Hester Williams, eds. Racial Ecologies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Oppermann, Serpil and Serenella Iovino, eds. Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
Pellow, David Nauguip. What Is Critical Environmental Justice? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
Pellow, David Nauguip. What Is Critical Environmental Justice? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
Ray, Sarah Jaquette. The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Roorda, Eric Paul, ed. The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Szeman, Imre, and Boyer, Dominic, eds. Energy Humanities: An Anthology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Szeman, Imre. On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2019.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2015.
Wallace Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future. London: Allen Lane, 2019.
Westling, Louise, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Wolfe, Cary. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Zalasiewicz, Jan. The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will humans Leave in the Rocks? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

W cyklu 2025L:

Abram, David. Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
Adamson, J., W.A. Gleason, and D.N. Pellow. Keywords for Environmental Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2016.
Ahuja, Neel. Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Alaimo, Stacy. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Alaimo, Stacy. Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Allewaert, Monique. Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Bachelard, Gaston. Earth and Reveries of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter. Translated by Kenneth Haltman. Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture, 2002.
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2007.
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press, 2010.
Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Braidotti, Rosi and Maria Hlavajova, eds. Posthuman Glossary. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.
Callison, Candis. How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Clark, Timothy. Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Clark, Timothy, ed. The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome and Lowell Duckert, eds. Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Lowell Duckert, eds. Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Cohen, Margaret. The Novel and the Sea. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Coole, Diana and Samantha Frost eds., New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Coupe. The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2000.
Cubitt, Sean. Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Daggett, Cara New. The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Dawson, Ashley. Extinction: A Radical History. New York and London: OR Books, 2016.
DeLoughrey, E., J. Didur, and A. Carrigan, eds. Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. New York: Routledge, 2015.
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene.” English Language Notes 57 (1) (2019): 21 36.
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. Allegories of the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Zoologies. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2014.
Dobrin, Sidney I., and Sean Morey, eds. Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
Egan, M. “Subaltern Environmentalism in the United States: A Historiographic Review.” Environment and History 8 (1) (2002): 21 41.
Elias, Amy J. and Christian Moraru, eds. The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geo-aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Emmett, Robert S. and David E. Nye. The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017. Farrier, David.
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020.
Frost, Samantha. Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Gillis, John. “The Blue Humanities.” Humanities 34 (3) (2013). www.neh.gov/hu
manities/2013/mayjune/feature/the blue humanities.
Hall, M. Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011.
Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Haraway, Donna J. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Heise, Ursula K., Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann, eds. The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. New York:
Routledge, 2017.
Heise, Usula K. Sense of Place, Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Houser, Heather. Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
Irigaray, L. and M. Marder. Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Jue, Melody. Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Kirksey, Eben. Emergent Ecologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Latour, Bruno. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2004.
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
MacGregor, Sherilyn, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. London: Routledge, 2017.
Malm, Andreas. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. New York: Verso, 2016.
Malm, Andreas. The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. London: Verso, 2018.
McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989.
McNeill, J.R. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016.
Menely, Tobias and Jesse Oak Taylor, eds. Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times. State College: Penn State University Press, 2017.
Mentz, Steve. Ocean. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London: Verso, 2011.
Moore, Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. New York: Verso, 2015.
Morrison, Susan Signe. The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Morton, Tim. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Morton, Timothy. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Neimanis, Astrida. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Nishime, Leilani and Kim Hester Williams, eds. Racial Ecologies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Oppermann, Serpil and Serenella Iovino, eds. Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. London, New York: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2017.
Pellow, David Nauguip. What Is Critical Environmental Justice? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
Pellow, David Nauguip. What Is Critical Environmental Justice? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.
Ray, Sarah Jaquette. The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Roorda, Eric Paul, ed. The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Szeman, Imre, and Boyer, Dominic, eds. Energy Humanities: An Anthology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Szeman, Imre. On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2019.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2015.
Wallace Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future. London: Allen Lane, 2019.
Westling, Louise, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Wolfe,
Cary. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2003.
Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Zalasiewicz, Jan. The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will humans Leave in the Rocks? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.