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Unit 1 Materials

Adorno, T. W. (1965, November, 23). Lecture 5: Theory and practice. Lectures on negative dialectics: Fragments of a lecture course 1965/1966. Wiley.
de Sousa Santos, B. (2017, January 27). Life and thought [Video]. YouTube.
de Sousa Santos, B. (2018). Preface. In The end of the cognitive empire (pp. vii–xiii). Duke University Press.
Heer, J. (2015, April 24). Acting without thinking. The New Republic.
hooks, b. (1991). Theory as liberatory practice. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 4(1). 1–12.
Horkheimer, M. (1939). The social function of philosophy. In Critical theory: Selected essays. Continuum.
Jonas, H. (2001). The practical uses of theory. In The phenomenon of life: Toward a philosophical biology (pp. 188–210). Northwestern University Press. (Original work published 1966)
Szeman, I. (2014). On the energy humanities; or What can philosophy tell us about oil (a preliminary sketch)? (pp. 3–22). European Union Centre of Excellence Working Papers, Number 1. University of Alberta.

Unit 2 Materials

Week 2
becoming undisciplined collective (Eds.). (2019). becoming undisciplined: a zine. UC Santa Barbara.
Dalke, A., Grobstein, P., & McCormack, E. (n.d.). Theorizing interdisciplinarity: Metaphor and metonymy, synecdoche and surprise.
Dreyfuss, S. (2011). Something essential about interdisciplinary thinking. Issues in Integrative Studies, 29, 67–83.
Foshay, R. (Ed.). (2012). Valences of interdisciplinarity: Theory, practice, pedagogy. AU Press.
Hirsch, P. D. (2012, June 25). A framework for integrative thinking about complex problems. Conflict and Collaboration.
Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies. Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Nicolescu, B. (n.d.). The transdisciplinary evolution of learning (pp. 1–11).
Nikitina, S. (2006). Three strategies for interdisciplinary teaching: Contextualizing, conceptualizing, and problem-centring. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38(3), 251–271.
Pohl, C., Krütli, P., & Stauffacher, M. (2017). Ten reflective steps for rendering research societally relevant. GAIA, 26(1), 43–51.
Week 4
Lengelle, R., & Meijers, F. (2019). Poetic reflexivity and the birth of career writing: An autoethnographic love story. In K. Maree & C. Wilby (Eds.), Innovating career counselling theory, research, and practice. (pp. 539–555). Springer.

Unit 3 Materials

Adult Education
Bannerji, Himani. 2024. “Through a Glass Darkly: Ideology, Education, Institution.” Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education 36 (1): 5–21. 
Gouthro, P. A. (2019). Taking time to learn: The importance of theory for adult education. Adult Education Quarterly, 69(1), 60-76.
Woelke, L. (2017, June 6). The role of adult education [Presentation for The University of the Fraser Valley].
Canada, the North, and the Globe
Anderson, E. N. (2011). Chapter 1: Ethnobiology: Overview of a growing field. In E. N. Anderson, D. M. Pearsall, E. S. Hunn, N. J. Turner (Eds.), Ethnobiology (pp. 1–14). Wiley-Blackwell.
Arnaquq-Baril, A. (Writer & Director). (2016). Angry Inuk [Film]. National Film Board.
Bird-David, N. (1999). “Animism” revisited: personhood, environment, and relational epistemology. Current Anthropology, 40(S1), S67-S91. 
Haraway, D. J. (2015). Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making kin. Environmental Humanities, 6(1), 159–165. 
Hrenchuk, C. (1993). Native land use and common property: Whose common? In J. T. Inglis (Ed.), Traditional ecological knowledge: Concepts and cases (pp. 69–86). IDRC Books.
Johnson Gottesfeld, L. M. (1994). Conservation, territory, and traditional beliefs: An analysis of Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en subsistence, Northwest British Columbia, Canada. Human Ecology, 22(4), 443–465.
Sheridan, J., & Longboat, D. (2006). The Haudenosaunee imagination and the ecology of the sacred. Space and culture, 9(4), 365-381.
Swanson, H. A., Bubandt, N., & Tsing, A. L. (2015). Less than one but more than many: Anthropocene as science fiction and scholarship-in-the-making. Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 6(1).
Turner, N. J. (1999). “Time to burn”: Traditional use of fire to enhance resource production by Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia. In R. Boyd (Ed.), Indians, fire, and the land in the Pacific Northwest (pp. 185–218). Oregon State University Press.
Valkonen, J., Valkonen, S., & Ingold T. (2019). Introduction. In T. H. Eriksen, S. Valkonen, & J. Valkonen (Eds.), Knowing from the Indigenous north: Sámi approaches to history, politics and belonging (pp. 3–11). Routledge.
Community Studies
Baker, J. M. (2016). Research as reciprocity: Northern Cree community-based and community-engaged research on wild food contamination in Alberta’s oil sands region. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2(1), 109–123.
Campfens, H. (Ed.). (1999). Section from Part II: International review of community development: Theory and practice. In Community development around the world: Practice, theory, research, training (pp. 25–40). University of Toronto Press.
Warhurst, P. (2012, May). How we can eat our landscapes [Video]. TED Conferences.
Cultural Studies
Carrington, B. (Narrator). (2017, March 7). The documentary (Ep. 8) [Audio podcast episode] In Stuart Hall: In Conversations. NPR.
Hall, S. (1999). Encoding, decoding. In S. During (Ed.), The cultural studies reader (pp. 507–517). Routledge.
Hill, R. W., & Coleman, D. (2019). The Two Row Wampum–Covenant Chain tradition as a guide for Indigenous–university research partnerships. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 19(5), 339–359.
Miller, T. (2001). What it is and what it isn’t: Introducing . . . cultural studies. In A companion to cultural studies (pp. 1–19). Blackwell.
Olivier, B. (2020). The psychopolitics of (and psychotherapy required by) neoliberalism. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 18(1), e1519. 
Rowe, A. C., & Tuck, E. (2017). Settler colonialism and cultural studies: Ongoing settlement, cultural production, and resistance. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 17(1), 3–13.
Rosa, H. (2023). Resonance as a medio-passive, emancipatory and transformative power: a reply to my critics. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 10(16). 
Educational Studies
Artiles, A. J., Kozleski, E. B., Dorn, S., & Christensen, C. (2006). Chapter 3: Learning in inclusive education research: Re-mediating theory and methods with a transformative agenda. Review of Research in Education, 30(1), 65–108.
Danforth, S., & Naraian, S. (2015). This new field of inclusive education: Beginning a dialogue on conceptual foundations. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 53(1), 70–85.
Forlin, C. I., Chambers, D. J., Loreman, T., Deppler, J., & Sharma, U. (2013). Inclusive education for students with disability: A review of the best evidence in relation to theory and practice (pp. 1–67). The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth.
Hornby, G. (2015). Inclusive special education: Development of a new theory for the education of children with special educational needs and disabilities. British Journal of Special Education, 42(3), 234–256.
Equity Studies
Ahmed, S. (2009). Embodying diversity: Problems and paradoxes for Black feminists. Race Ethnicity and Education, 12(1), 41–52.
Ahmed, S. (2007). The language of diversity. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30(2), 235–256.
Kendi, I. X. (2020). The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist [Video]. TED Conferences.
Tuck, E., & Yang, W. (2016). What justice wants. Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 2(2), 1–15.
Global Change
Adorno, T., & Horkheimer, M. (1944). The cultural industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. In Dialectic of Enlightenment (n.p.).
Adorno, T. (1975). Culture industry reconsidered. New German Critique, 6, 12–19.
Arendt, H. (1968). The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man. In Imperialism: Part two of the origins of totalitarianism (pp. 267–302). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Bendell, J. (2020). Deep adaptation: A map for navigating climate tragedy [Occasional Paper].
Castells, M. (2000). Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society. British Journal of Sociology, 51(1), 5–24.
Dirlik, A. (2007). Global South: Predicament and promise. The Global South, 1(1&2), 12–23.
Fukuyama, F. (1992). By way of an introduction. In The end of history and the last man (n.p.).
Hardt, M., & Negri, A. (2000). Preface. In Empire (pp. xi–xvii). Harvard University Press.
Hausknost, D. (2019, November 21). Tackling the political economy of transformative change. Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity.
Our World in Data: Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
TED. (2018, June 4). A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow [Video]. YouTube.
Verso Books. (2017, March 15). Neoliberalism, migration, climate change: George Monbiot in conversation with Verso [Video]. YouTube.
Voices from Around the World. University of Cologne.
Wallace-Wells, D. (2019, September). How we could change the planet’s climate future [Video]. TED Conferences.
Heritage and Social History
Carter, J., Castle, C., & Soren, B. (2011). Taking stock: Museum studies and museum practices in Canada. Museum Management and Curatorship, 26(5), 415–420.
Fulton, G. (2015). Heritage conservation. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Lowenthal, D. (2003). The heritage crusade and its contradictions. In M. Page & R. Mason (Eds.), Giving preservation a history: Histories of historic preservation in the United States (pp. 12–29). Routledge.
Standards and guidelines for the conservation of historic places in Canada: A federal, provincial, and territorial collaboration (2nd ed.). (2010). Parks Canada.
Literary Studies
English Studies in Canada. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English.
McMaster, R. (2013). Why read? English Studies in Canada, 39(2-3), 43–61.
Redglass Pics. (2017, October 26). George Saunders: On story [Video]. YouTube.
Rushdie, S. (2018, May 31). Truth, lies, and literature. The New Yorker.
Work, Organization & Leadership
Alvesson, M., & Spicer, A. (2014). Critical perspectives on leadership. In D. Day (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of leadership and organizations. Oxford University Press.
Heery, E. (2016). Critical perspectives on work. In E. Heery (Ed.), Framing work: Unitary, pluralist and critical perspectives in the 21st century. Oxford Scholarship Online.
Marx, K. (1867). The working-day. In Capital (Vol. 1; n.p.).
Writing and New Media
Berry, D., & Fagerjord, A. (2017). On the way to computational thinking. In Digital humanities: Knowledge and critique in a digital age. Polity Press.
Lengelle, R. (2020). Writing the self and bereavement: Dialogical means and markers of moving through grief. Life Writing, 17(1), 103–122.
Lengelle, R., Jardine, C., & Bonnar, C. (2018). Writing the self for reconciliation and global citizenship: The inner dialogue and creative voices for cultural healing. In F. Meijers, & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), The dialogical self theory in education: A multicultural perspective (pp. 81–96). Springer.
Stanford University (2015, March 30). Your brain on story [Video lecture from the mediaX Seminar, Science Storytelling & the Power of Participation]. YouTube.

Unit 4 Materials

Affect
Gregg, M., & Seigworth, G. J. (Eds.). (2010). The affect theory reader. Duke University Press.
Ethics
Foot, P. (2002). Virtues and vices. In Virtues and vices: And other essays in moral philosophy. Oxford Scholarship Online.
Hume, D. (2009). Book III: Morals. In A Treatise of Human Nature (pp. 695–930). The Floating Press. (Original work published 1740)
Hume, D. (1912). An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. (Original work published 1777)
Levinas, E. (1991). Preface. In Totality and infinity: An essay on exteriority (A. Lingis, Trans.; pp. 21–30). Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Original work published 1961)
Levinas, E. (1989). Ethics as first philosophy. In S. Hand (Ed.), The Levinas reader (pp. 76–87). Basil Blackwell.
Levinas, E. (1989). Substitution. In S. Hand (Ed.), The Levinas reader (pp. 89–125). Basil Blackwell.
O’Neill, O. (1985). A simplified account of Kant’s ethics. In J. E. White (ed.), Contemporary moral problems. West Publishing Company.
Pollock, R. (n.d.). David Hume: Moral philosophy. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Singer, P. (1972). Famine, affluence, and morality. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1(3), 229–243.
Young, I. M., & Nussbaum, M. (2011). Responsibility for justice. Oxford University Press.
Zheng, R. (2019). What kind of responsibility do we have for fighting injustice? A moral-theoretic perspective on the social connections model. Critical Horizons, 20(2), 109–126.
Milgram Experiment Ethics. Explorable.
McLeod, S. (2017). The Milgram shock experiment. Simply Psychology.
Stanford Prison Experiment. Explorable.
Decolonization
Chandler, D., & Reid, J. (2018). “Being in being”: Contesting the ontopolitics of Indigeneity. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 23(3), 251–268.
Hunt, S. (2014). Ontologies of Indigeneity: The politics of embodying a concept. Cultural Geographies, 21(1), 27–32.
Spooner, M., & McNinch, J. (Eds.). (2018). Dissident knowledge in higher education. University of Regina Press.
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1–40.
West, D. A. (1995). Epistemological dependency and Native peoples: An essay on the future of Native/non-Native relations in Canada. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 15(2), 279–291.
Environment/Ecology
Atleo, R. E. (2004). Introduction: Development of an Indigenous theory. In Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth worldview (pp. xi–xx). UBC Press.
Callicott. J. B. (1980). Animal liberation: A triangular affair. Environmental Ethics, 2(4), 311–338.
Callicott, J. B. (2001). The land ethic. In D. Jamieson (Ed.), A companion to environmental philosophy (pp. 204–217). Blackwell.
Cronon, W. (1996). The trouble with wilderness; Or, Getting back to the wrong nature. Environmental History, 1(1), 7–28.
Drengson, A., Devall, B., & Schroll, M. A. (2011). The deep ecology movement: Origins, development, and future prospects (toward a transpersonal ecosophy). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 30(1/2), 101–117.
Gare, A. (2014). Deep ecology, the radical enlightenment, and ecological civilization. The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, 30(2), 184–205.
Guha, R. (1989). Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: A third world critique. Environmental Ethics, 11, 71–83.
Haraway, D. (2003). The companion species manifesto: Dogs, people, and significant otherness (pp. 1–65). Prickly Paradigm Press.
Hardin, G. (1968). The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162(3859), 1243–1248.
Latour, B. (2004). Why political ecology as to let go of nature. In Politics of nature: How to bring the sciences into democracy (C. Porter, Trans.; pp. 9–52). Harvard University Press.
Margulis, L. (2001). Life from scum. In N. Carr (Ed.), The nature of life: Readings in biology (pp. 263–279). Great Books Foundation.
Singer, P. (1989). All animals are equal. In T. Regan & P. Singer (Eds.), Animal rights and human obligations (pp. 148–162). Prentice-Hall.
Genders/Sexualities
Ahmed, S. (2009). Embodying diversity: Problems and paradoxes for Black feminists. Race Ethnicity and Education, 12(1), 41–52.
Bivens, R., & Haimson, O. L. (2016). Baking gender into social media design: How platforms shape categories for users and advertisers. Social Media + Society, 2, 1–12.
Feminists Theorize COVID-19: A Symposium. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Irigaray, L. (1985). This sex which is not one (C. Porter, Trans.). Cornell University Press. (Original work published 1977)
O’Connell Davidson, J. (2001). The sex tourist, the expatriate, his ex-wife and her “other”: The politics of loss, difference and desire. Sexualities, 4(1), 5–24.
Pyle, K. (2018). Naming and claiming: Recovering Ojibwe and Plains Cree Two-Spirit language. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 574–588.
Neoliberalism/Global Capitalism
Harvey, D. (2007). A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford University Press.
Ontologies
Blaser, M. (2013). Ontological conflicts and the stories of people in spite of Europe: Toward a conversation on political ontology. Current Anthropology, 54(5), 547–568.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). Introduction: Rhizome. In A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (pp. 3–25). University of Minnesota Press.
Posthumanism and the More-Than-Human
Bignall, S., Hemming, S., & Rigney, D. (2016). Three ecosophies for the Anthropocene: Environmental governance, continental posthumanism and Indigenous expressivism. Deleuze Studies, 10(4), 455–478.
Fridericianum. (2015, August 10). 02 Inhuman symposium: Rosi Braidotti [Video]. YouTube.
Genealogy of the Posthuman. Critical Posthumanism.
Ingold, T. (2000). Building, dwelling, living: How animals and people make themselves at home in the world. In The perception of the environment: Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill (pp. 172–188). Routledge.
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies.
Posthumanism Research Institute. Brock University.
Yusoff, K. (2018). A billion Black Anthropocenes or none. University of Minnesota Press.
Postmodernity, Science, and Art
Agamben, G. (1999). The cabinet of wonder. In The man without content (pp. 18–24). Stanford University Press.
Foshay, R. (Ed.). (2016). The digital nexus: Identity, agency, and political engagement. AU Press.
Heidegger, M. (2002). The age of the world picture. In Off the beaten track (J. Young & K. Haynes, Eds. & Trans.; pp. 57–85). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1950)
Race
Bonilla-Silva, E. (2019). Toward a new political praxis for Trumpamerica: New directions in critical race theory. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(13), 1776–1788.
Doane, A. (2006). What is racism? Racial discourse and racial politics. Critical Sociology, 32(2/3), 255–274. 
Fanon, F. (1967). Black skin, white masks. Pluto Press.
Lentin, A. (2000). “Race,” racism and anti-racism: Challenging contemporary classifications. Social Identities, 6(1), 91–106. 
Owen, D. S. (2007). Towards a critical theory of whiteness. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 33(2), 203–222.
Ranganathan, M. (2016). Thinking with Flint: Racial liberalism and the roots of an American water tragedy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 27(3), 17–33.
TallBear, K. (2013). Chapter 1: Racial science, blood, and DNA. In Native American DNA: Tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science (pp. 31–66). University of Minnesota Press.
Twine, F. W., & Gallagher, C. (2008). The future of whiteness: A map of the “third wave.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31(1), 4–24.
Winant, H. (2006). Race and racism: Towards a global future. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 29(5), 986–1003.
Society/Culture and Subjectivity
Adorno, T., & Horkheimer, M. (1944). The cultural industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. In Dialectic of Enlightenment (n.p.).
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the societies of control. October, 59, 3–7.
Foucault, M. (2008). “Panopticism” from Discipline & punish: The birth of the prison. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, 2(1), 1–12.
Marcuse, H. (2002). The paralysis of criticism: Society without opposition. In One-dimensional man: Studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society (pp. xxxix–xlviii). Routledge. (Original work published 1964)
Marcuse, H. (2002). The new forms of control. In One-dimensional man: Studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society (pp. 3–20). Routledge. (Original work published 1964) 
Spivak, G. C. (1988). Can the subaltern speak? In C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and the interpretation of culture. Macmillan Education.
Transgender Studies
Billard, T. J. (Curator). (2021). TMS: A Bibliography of Transgender Studies in Media, Communication, and Technology.