ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT

According to the Dublin descriptors, the aims of teaching are oriented to:

1)      knowledges and understanding capacities which extend those of first university cycle, and apply original ideas in research contexts;

2)      communicate own conclusions and knowledges to specialist and non specialist people 

Core course

The course introduces the students to the study of topics and methodologies of environmental anthropology since its development in XX century until the reflection about the Anthropocene.

Deepening

Core course

Kopnina, H., Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (eds), 2017, Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (Book available in pdf on Studium, esclusi i cap. cap. 5 (pp.55-69), 8 (pp.90-105), 12 (pp.144-155), 30, 31, 32,  33, 34, 35 (pp. 384-452);

In depth

Scoones, I., Leach, M., Newell, P., (eds), 2015, The Politics of Green Transformation, Routledge, New York 238 pp. (Book available in pdf on Studium), pp. 1-185

One book at choiche

Emanuela Borgnino, Ecologie Native, Eleuthera, Milano, 2022, p. 264.
Manuela Tassan, 2013, Nature ibride. Etnografia di un’area protetta nell’Amazzonia brasiliana, Unicopli, Milano, 256 pp.

Gaetano Mangiameli, 2010, Antropologia, ambiente e complessità in Africa occidentale, Unicopli, Milano, 225 pp.

Andrea Ravenda, 2018, Carbone. Inquinamentto industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi, Meltemi, Milano, 208 pp.

Viola Di Tullio, 2023, I cacciatori di nebbia. Per un’antropologia del cambiamento climatico a Pena Blanca, Cile, Franco Angeli, Milano, 174 pp.

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