#1 COMPOSTING Feminist, Queer and Anticolonial Perspectives in the Environmental Humanities
Tuesday September 15, 2015 4-5:30 pm
Key Text:
- Povinelli, Elizabeth. “Transgender Creeks and the Three Figures of Power in Late Liberalism.” differences 26.1(2015): 168-187.
#2 COMPOSTING Genealogies of Ecological Feminist Thought
Tuesday October 13, 2015 4-5:30 pm
Key text:
- Sandilands, Catriona. The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy. Minneapolis: UMinn Press, 1999. (Introduction: Mothers, Natures, and Ecofeminists; Part I: On the Subject of Ecofeminism (chapters 1-4); Conclusion: The Lack of Conclusiveness )
Optional:
- Sandilands, The Good-Natured Feminist (Part II: The Quest for a Radical Democratic Politics – chapters 5-8)
#3 COMPOSTING Air
Tuesday November 16, 2015 4-5:30 pm
Key text:
- Irigaray, Luce. The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger. Trans. M. Marder. UT Press, 1999. Chapters 1, and 2.
Optional:
- Martin Heidegger, “Building dwelling thinking” in Poetry, Language and Thought, New York: Harper & Row, 2001 (1971)
- Faulkner, Joanne. “Amnesia at the Beginning of Time: Irigaray’s Reading of Heidegger in the Forgetting of Air.” Contretemps 2 (May 2001): 124-141 http://sydney.edu.au/contretemps/2may2001/faulkner.pdf
- Englemann, Sasha. “Toward a poetics of air: sequencing and surfacing breath.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40.3 (July 2015): 430-444.
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12084/full
- Drobnick, Jim. “Trafficking in Air.” Performance Research 8.3 (2003): 29-43
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13528165.2003.10871943
- Abram, David. “Afterword: The Commonwealth of Breath” in Material Ecocriticism, eds. S. Iovino and S. Oppermann. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014. 301-314.
Also…
- The Crunk Feminist Collective, “Waiting to Exhale” (blogpost)
- http://www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2014/12/11/waiting-to-exhale/
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs “Breathing Room for Something Unstoppable” (poetry/blogpost)
- http://alternateroots.org/breathing-room-for-something-unstoppable/
- Pussy Riot, “I Can’t Breathe” (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXctA2BqF9A
- Respiro. Dir. Emanuele Crialese. (2002).
#4 COMPOSTING Environmental Futures
Tuesday December 15, 2015 4-5:30 pm
Key text:
- Ahmed, Sara. “Happy Futures” in The Promise of Happiness (Durham: Duke UP, 2010): 160-198.
Optional:
- Cooper, Melinda. “Turbulent Worlds: Financial Markets and Environmental Crisis” Theory, Culture & Society 27 (March/May 2010): 167-190
- Cuboniks, Laboria. Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation. http://www.laboriacuboniks.net/ (Published online 2015)
- Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham: Duke UP, 2004).
- Gunaratnam, Yasmin & Clark, Nigel. “Pre-Race, Post-Race: Climate Change and Planetary Humanism”, Dark Matter 9.1 (July 2012) http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2012/07/02/pre-race-post-race-climate-change-and-planetary-humanism/
- Grosz, Elizabeth. “The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges” in Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics and Art (Durham: Duke UP, 2011): 74-86.
- Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Feminism in the late Twentieth Century” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991): 149-182.
Also…
- Black Quantum Futurism: http://blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com/album/black-quantum-futurism-soundwaves
- Cornum, Lindsay Catherine. “The Space NDN’s Star Map” The New Inquiry. http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-space-ndns-star-map/
- Dillon, Grace L (ed.).Walking in the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2012).
- Sovereign Apocalypse: http://sovereignapocalypse.com
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