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MAIS 752: Special Topics Graduate Seminar—Conceptualizing Extinctions
MAIS 752: Special Topics Graduate Seminar—Conceptualizing Extinctions
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Salazar Parreñas, Juno.
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
. Duke University Press, 2018.
Week 1
Gan, Elaine, Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, and Nils Bubandt. “Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene.” In
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts of the Anthropocene
, edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, G1–G14. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Stengers, Isabelle. “Preface to the English Language Edition.” In
In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism
, 7–12. Open Humanities Press and Meson Press, 2009.
Week 2
Stengers, Isabelle. “Putting Problematization to the Test of Our Present.”
Theory, Culture & Society
38, no. 2 (2021): 71–92. doi:10.1177/0263276419848061.
Nixon, Rob. “Introduction.” In
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
, 1–44. Harvard University Press, 2011.
Week 3
Buchanan, Brett. “Precarious Communities: Towards a Phenomenology of Extinction.” In
Ontologies of Nature
, edited by Gerard Kuperus and Marjolein Oele, 219–233. Springer, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66236-7_11.
Rose, Deborah Bird and Thom van Dooren. “Encountering a More-than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness.” In
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
, edited by Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann, 120–128. Routledge, 2017.
Week 4
van Dooren, Thom. “Pain of Extinction: The Death of a Vulture.”
Cultural Studies Review
16, no. 2 (2010): 271–289. doi:10.5130/csr.v16i2.1702.
Hubbard, Tasha. “Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth-Century North America: ‘Kill, Skin, and Sell’.”
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
, edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton, 292–305. Duke University Press, 2014.
Week 5
Todd, Zoe. “Refracting the State Through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders and Colonialism in North/Western Canada.”
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
7, no. 1 (2018): 60–75.
Mitchell, Audra. “Beyond Biodiversity and Species: Problematizing Extinction.”
Theory, Culture & Society
33, no. 5 (2016): 23–42. doi:10.1177/0263276415619219.
Week 6
Colebrook, Claire. “Lives Worth Living: Extinction, Persons, Disability.” In
After Extinction
, edited by Richard Grusin, 151–171. University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Wynter, Sylvia and Katherine McKittrick. “Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, To Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations.” In
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
, edited by Katherine McKittrick, 9–24. Duke University Press, 2015.
Week 7
Theriault, Noah and Audra Mitchell. “Extinction.” In
Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon
, edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian, 177–182, 537. Punctum Books, 2020.
Demos, T. J. “Extinction Rebellions.”
Afterimage
47, no. 2 (2020): 14–20. doi:10.1525/aft.2020.472004.
Week 8
Yusoff, Kathryn. “Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins.” In
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. doi:10.5749/9781452962054.
Al-Saji, Alia. “Durée.” In
50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
, edited by Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon, 99–106. Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Week 9
McBrien, Justin. “Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophe in the Necrocene.” In
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism
, edited by Jason W. Moore, 116–137. PM Press, 2016.
Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Our Ancestors' Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene.”
Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
, edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann, 206–215. Routledge, 2017.
Week 10
Davis, Heather and Zoe Todd. “On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene.”
ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies
16, no. 4 (2017): 761–780.
Leonard, Wesley Y. “Challenging ‘Extinction’ through Modern Miami Language Practices.”
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
35, no. 2 (2011): 135–160.
Week 11
Hernandez, K. J., June M Rubis, Noah Theriault, Zoe Todd, Audra Mitchell, Bawaka Country, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, and Sarah Wright. “The Creatures Collective: Manifestings.”
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
(July 2020). doi:10.1177/2514848620938316.
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "Introduction: Decolonizing Extinction." In
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 1–30. Duke University Press, 2018.
Week 12
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "From Ape Motherhood to Tough Love."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 33–59. Duke University Press, 2018.
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "On the Surface of Skin and Earth."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 61–79. Duke University Press, 2018.
Week 13
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "Forced Copulation for Conservation."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 83–104. Duke University Press, 2018.
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "Finding a Living."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 105–128. Duke University Press, 2018.
Week 14
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "Arrested Autonomy."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 131–156. Duke University Press, 2018.
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "Hospice for a Dying Species."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 157–175. Duke University Press, 2018.
Week 15
Salazar Parreñas, Juno. "Conclusion: Living and Dying Together."
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
, 177–188. Duke University Press, 2018.