Semester 2 · 96114 · Master in Eco-Social Design · 6CP · EN
Lecturers: Elisabeth Tauber
Teaching Hours: 30
Lab Hours: 0
Mandatory Attendance: highly recommended
Bird Rose, Deborah 2004 Reports from a Wild Country. Ethics for Decolonisation. University of New South Wales Press.
Cole, John and Eric R. Wolf 1974 The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley, New York: Academic Press.
Mathews, Andrew 2020 Anthropology and the Anthropocene: Criticisms, Experiments, and Collaborations in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 49: 67-82.
Schneider, Almut 2022 Land's Constraints and Possibilities–High-Altitude Farmers in the Eastern Alps. C&AFFE Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. The Journal of Culture and Agriculture https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cuag.12287
Swanson, Heather Anne; Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Gro B. Ween 2018 Domestication Gone Wild Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations. Duke University Press
Tauber, Elisabeth 2024 Walking on Alpine Grass - Grass Socialities and their Global Connections. Perspectives From The Alpine Anthropocene. Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2024.2362697
Todd, Zoe 2016 ‘An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ is just another word for colonialism’. Journal of Historical Sociology 29(1): 4-22.
Yancey Orr, J Stephen Lansing, and Michael R.Dove 2015 Environmental Anthropology: Systemic Perspectives in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 44. 153-68.
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Julia E. Fa, Dan Brockington, Eduardo S. Brondízio, Joji Cariño, Esteve Corbera, Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Daniel Kobei, Pernilla Malmer, Guadalupe Yesenia H. Márquez, Zsolt Molnár, Helen Tugendhat & Stephen T. Garnett 2024 A baseless statistic could harm the Indigenous Peoples it is meant to support. Nature nr. 633: 32-35.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall 2014 The "Honorable Harvest": Lessons From an Indigenous Tradition of Giving Thanks. ALLcreations.org
The Kino-nda-niimi Collective 2014 The Winter We Danced. Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. ARP Books. Winnipeg.
Tsing, Anna, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou 2021 Feral Atlas. The-More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Stanford University Press https://www.feralatlas.org/
Viveiros de Castro, E. (1998). Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 469-488
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Sustainable Development Goals
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