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Required Books

Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521468343.

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780674948396.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1983, 1985. ISBN: 9780809001583.

Fortun, Kim. Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226257204.

Walley, Christine. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691115603.

Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780691090191.

Tsing, Anna. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691120652.

Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. New York, NY: Vintage, 1998. ISBN: 9780375700996.

Readings by Session

Course readings.

Lec #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction
Histories and Theories of Nature
2	Class Discussion of Hurricane Katrina
3	Historicizing "Nature"	Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521468343.
4	Theoretical Frameworks - Part I: Theorizing the Relationship between Humans and the Environment	On Objectivity Haraway, Donna. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (1988): 575-560. An Overview of Anthropology Ortner, Sherry B. "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26, no. 1 (1984): 126-166. Political Ecology Neumann, R. P. "Political Ecology of Wildlife Conservation in the Mt. Meru Area of Northeast Tanzania." Land Degradation and Rehabilitation 3 (1992): 85-98. Gender Studies Haraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy." Part 1 in Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York, NY: Routledge, 1989, pp. 26-58. ISBN: 9780415901147. Agarwal, Bina. "The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India." Feminist Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 119-158.
5	Theoretical Frameworks - Part II	Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780674948396.
Living Enviroments
6	Discussion of Living Environments and Readings	Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1983, 1985. ISBN: 9780809001583.
7	Discussion of Living Environments and Readings (cont.)	Fortun, Kim. Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226257204.
8	Discussion of Living Environments and Readings (cont.)	Walley, Christine. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691115603.
9	Discussion of Living Environments and Readings (cont.)	Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780691090191.
10	Theoretical Frameworks - Part III	Foucault, Michel. "Governmentality." Power: The Essential Works of Coucault 1954-1984. Edited by James D. Faubion. Vol. 3, New York, NY: The New Press, 1994, 2000. ISBN: 9780691120652. ———. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698.
11	Discussion of Theoretical Frameworks and Readings	Tsing, Anna. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691120652.
Exploring the Future
12	Writing about the Environment for Non-Academic Audiences	Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. New York, NY: Vintage, 1998. ISBN: 9780375700996.
13	Student Presentations
14	Student Presentations (cont.)