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ANTH 5400: Environmental Anthropology (Online)

Unit 1: Roots of Environmental Anthropology

Module 2: Theoretical Foundations, Part I

McGuire, T. (1997). The Last Northern Cod. Journal of Political Ecology, 4(1), 41-54. https://doi.org/10.2458/v4i1.21345 

Module 3: Theoretical Foundations, Part II

Kottak, C. (1999). The New Ecological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 101(1), 23-35.

Greider, T., & Garkovich, L. (1994). Landscapes: The social construction of nature and the environment. Rural Sociology 59(1), 1-24.

Unit 2: Factors in Environmental Change

Module 4: Environmental Ethics and Worldviews

Pike, Sarah M. (2017). Mourning Nature. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture10(4), 419-441. 

Sponsel, Leslie E. (2012). Spiritual Ecology. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 1(3), 340-350. 

Dunstan, Adam (2012). What was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment. Indigenous Policy Journal, 22(4), 1-8. 

Module 5: Population Growth

Pearce, F. (2009). Consumption Dwarfs Population as Main Environmental ThreatYale Environment 360https://e360.yale.edu/features/consumption_dwarfs_population_as_main_environmental_threat

Module 6: Consumerism, Capitalism, and Scale

Bodley, J. (2008). Scale, Adaptation, and the Environmental CrisisIn Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. Altamira Press. 

Unit 3: Environmental Challenges and Crises

Module 8: Feeding 7 Billion (Sustainably)

Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (2010). Concessions and Conservation: A Study of Environmentalism and Anti-environmentalism among Commodity Farmers. Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 14(1). 

Module 9: Climate Change and The Human Costs of Energy Production

Ives, S. (2014). Uprooting ‘Indigeneity’ in South Africa’s Western Cape: The Plant That Moves.  American Anthropologist, 116(2). 

Farbotko, C., & and Lazrus, H. (2012). The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change, 22

Hughes, D. (2013). Climate Change and the Victim Slot: From Oil to InnocenceAmerican Anthropologist, 115(4). 

Module 10: Biodiversity Conservation and the Extinction Crisis

Braverman 2014, Conservation without Nature: The Trouble with In Situ versus Ex Situ Conservation. Geoforum, 51, 47-57.

Trusty, T. (2011). From Ecosystem Services to Unfulfilled Expectations: Factors Influencing Attitudes towards the Madidi Protected Area. Environmental Anthropology Today. 

Escobar, A. (1998). Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements. Journal of Political Ecology, 5

Module 11: Sustainable Development, Ecotourism, and Protected Areas

Campbell (2008). Political Ecology Perspectives on Ecotourism (Chapter 11). Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

Unit 4: Environmental Politics and Policies

Module 12: Environmental Policy and "Natural Resource Management

Brosius, J. (1999). Green Dots and Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rainforest. American Anthropologist, 101(1). 

Module 13: Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Lands

Reo, N., Whyte, K., Ranco, D., Brandt, J., Blackmer, E., & Elliott, B. (2017). Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse. American Indian Quarterly, 41(3).

Nadasdy, P. (2005). Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian. Ethnohistory, 52(2).

Module 14: Environmental Justice, Just Environmentalism

Fry, B., & Kincaid (2015). Fracking and Environmental (In)justice in a Texas City. Ecological Economics, 117.

Gupta. A. (2006). Peasants and Global Environmentalism. The Environment in Anthropology