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This is the course students have to enrol in for the module 'Theory: Culture, Ecology, Sustainability'. It is designed to introduce students of the MA-course "Culture – Ecology – Change" (CEC) to the dynamic fields of the Environmental Humanities and of Ecocriticism, two related bodies of theory and critical thinking that
- acknowledge that we live in the "Anthropocene", an age of multiple anthropogenic environmental and humanitarian crises (e. g. the climate crisis),
- recognize the urgency to think beyond the conventional dichotomy of nature and culture, and to read and work across disciplinary boundaries, in order to understand and critically engage with these crises,
- negotiate fundamental questions and problems which the idea of an undissolvable entanglement of the human and the more-than-human world poses for cultural and literary studies, and for the humanities in general.
Reading a wide variety of theoretical texts, students will be invited to question apparently self-evident binaries such as "nature" and "culture"; be made acquainted with central concepts such as the Anthropocene, post-humanism, anthropocentrism, scaling/scalar literacy, environmental justice, and slow violence; and learn about fields of study such as Postcolonial Ecologies, Material Ecocriticism, Ecopoetics, Human-Animal-Studies, Blue Humanities, (New) Nature Writing, and Ecofeminism. These are open lists!
The first session will introduce students to the standards of research and scholarly work that are expected throughout the MA-programme.
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