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GEOGM0028 TB2 2016-2017

School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

Postcolonial Matters

Unit Syllabus

Unit Convenor: Mark Jackson

Instructors: Mark Jackson (MJ) <m.jackson@bristol.ac.uk>

Naomi Millner (NM) <naomi.millner@bristol.ac.uk>

Unit Description

Overview

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The unit examines how postcolonial and decolonial geographies are renewing themselves to meet the

theoretical and empirical demands of a more-than-human world. It will address the continued

relevance of postcolonial politics and ethics, but within the decolonial need for new analytical

questions, methodologies, and representational strategies that draw from diverse interdisciplinary

approaches, including: political ecology; indigenous studies; anthropology; material studies; agro-

ecology; social movement studies; cultural and historical geography; and critical political economy.

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More specifically, the unit will explore contemporary approaches to the critical relationships of

materiality, ecology, coloniality, race, and humanism. It invokes the discourses of postcolonial and

decolonial thinking and theory, political ecology, indigenous studies, and posthumanism to re-think the

theoretical and empirical domains of postcolonial geographies. The need to do this stems from

ecological, environmental, and technological questions, which increasingly challenge the anthropocentric

analyses that dominate the traditional attention of the social sciences and humanities. Human-centred

orthodoxies in postcolonial analysis, whose focus has been on topics like identity, cultural hybridity, and

political heterogeneity, are now also being asked to account for how human beings are entangled

ontological aspects of wider relational and ecological processes. The criteria for making these

relational and material claims about human entanglement also challenge constructionist and textual

approaches still taken for granted in postcolonial studies. Postcolonial theory, and postcolonial studies

more generally, have struggled to respond effectively to these new conceptual and empirical

demands. Some authors have even argued that postcolonialism has run its course, or has entered a

contradictory period of decline. Despite this view, global genealogies of ongoing colonial violence,

exclusion, and inequality continue to be more relevant than ever. It is clear we still need postcolonial

critique, but in a form that is more responsive to contemporary demands about who our ‘others’ (human

and non-human) are, and how research may be done with them.

This unit will:

● Introduce debates over the genealogy of, and possibilities for, postcolonialism, and decolonial

and postcolonial geographies, including the challenges contemporary materiality, relationality,

and ecological studies have for the ethics and politics of future postcolonial and decolonial

geographies.

● Analyse the role and significance of posthumanism, materiality, political ontology, and

indigenous studies on the modern and contemporary politics of contemporary colonialisms.

● Demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of engagement with concepts of postcolonialism,

materiality, and ecology.

● Enable students to engage critically with a wide range of theoretically and empirically-

focused material.

Intended Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students will able to:

● Identify key concepts and theories of postcolonialism, materiality, political ontology, political

ecology, and critical political economy in geographical and cognate interdisciplinary

scholarship.

● Analyse key differences internal to theorizations of postcolonial geographies, materialism,

posthumanism, political ecology, and indigenous studies.

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● Situate the debates and their cross-overs across different interdisciplinary contexts

appreciating both shared conceptual genealogies and research applications.

● Identify the relevance of key concepts and categories of postcolonialism and materiality to

their individual research agendas and wider social politics.

Assessment

All assessments will be coursework based. There are no exam assessments for the unit.

Formative: Each student will present in one seminar on that seminar’s assigned readings for about

fifteen minutes in length. Each presentation summarizes central themes in the reading for that week and

poses issues for discussion. A copy of the presentation will be distributed to the class at the beginning

of the two-hour seminar. Feedback will be given to the students within one week of their presentation.

Summative: One 4000-word essay (100%). Students may choose to examine either: an object or text

through which engage key topics and concepts within the unit via a creative/productive means; or,

examine a self-chosen topic on a subject of their interest arising from the unit. Guidance will be

provided on an individual basis for each student, and students will be supported in their development

of ideas and design of the research papers.

Seminar Schedule

The unit comprises a total of 10 seminar sessions, each of two hours. The classes are scheduled from

JE2 until W21. There is no Reading Week for the unit, and we finish before the Easter break.

Summary

The class timetable is organised as follows:

Part I

1. JE2 - Tues. 17.01.17 - 1400-1600 - SR2 - MJ/NM

2. W13 - Tues. 24.01.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 - MJ

3. W14 - Tues. 31.01.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 - MJ

4. W15 - Tues. 07.02.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 - MJ

5. W16 - Tues. 14.02.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 – MJ

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Part II

6. W17 - Mon. 20.02.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

7. W18 - Mon. 27.02.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

8. W19 - Mon. 06.03.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

9. W20 - Mon. 13.03.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

10. W21 - Mon. 20.03.17 - 1500-1700 - SR1 - NM/MJ

A pictograph of the Treaty 4 negotiations, illustrated by Chief Paskwa. It is considered rare as it is the only depiction of the treaty negotiations from a First Nations perspective. (Royal Saskatchewan Museum)

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Seminar Descriptions and Readings

PART I

Seminar 1: Introduction to Unit and Themes

JE2 - Tues. 17.01.17 – 1400 -1600 – Room SR2, SOGS - MJ/NM

Keywords: postcolonial, decolonial, coloniality, planetarity, political ontology

Primary Readings:

Blaser, M. 2013. ‘Notes towards a political ontology of environmental conflicts.’

Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge. Ed. L. Green. (Cape Town: Human

Sciences Research Council) Pp. 13-27.

Chakrabarty, D. 2012. ‘Postcolonial studies and the challenge of climate change.’ New

Literary History, Vol. 43, No. 1. Pp. 1-18.

Sundberg, J. 2014. ‘Decolonizing posthumanist geographies’ cultural geographies Vol. 21,

No. 1, pp. 33-47.

Secondary Readings:

Braun, B. (2002) “Saving Clayoquot: wilderness and the politics of indigeneity.”

Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast. University of Minnesota

Press, 65-108.

Chakrabarty, D. 2009. ‘Climate of history: four theses.’ Critical Inquiry. 35. Winter. Pp.197-

222.

De Sousa Santos, B. 2014. ‘Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir’ and ‘Manifesto for

intellectual activists’, Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide (New York and London:

Routledge) pp. 2-17.

Graham, M. 2008. ‘Some Thoughts About the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal

Worldviews’, Australian Humanities Review, 45 www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-

November-2008/graham.html. [Accessed, 27.07.2016].

Jackson, M. 2014. ‘Composing postcolonial geographies: Postconstructivism, ecology and

overcoming ontologies of critique’ Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 72–87.

Jackson, M. (forthcoming). ‘Nature, critique, ontology and decolonial options:

problematizing the political’ in The Sage Handbook of Nature 3rd Ed. T.

Marsden, ed. London: SAGE.

Maldonado-Torres, N. 2007. ‘On the coloniality of being: contributions to the development

of a concept’ Cultural Studies Vol. 21, Nos. 2-3, March-May Pp.240-270.

Mignolo, Walter D. 1993. ‘Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse: Cultural Critique or

Academic Colonialism?’ Latin American Research Review, Vol. 28, No.3, pp. 120− 134.

Spivak, G.C. 2012. ‘Imperative to re-imagine the planet.’ An Aesthetic Education in the Era

of Globalisation, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press) Pp. 335-350.

Viveiros de Castro, E. (2004) “Exchanging perspectives: the transformation of objects intosubjects in

Amerindian ontologies.” Common Knowledge, 10(3), 463-484.

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Detail from Piikani Winter Count at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Museum (Photo, M. Jackson)

Seminar 2: Indigeneity, Decolonization, and Cosmo-politics

W13 - Tues. 24.01.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 – MJ

Keywords: cosmo-politics, decolonization, ontological turn, politics

Primary Readings:

Cusicanqui, S.R. 2012. ‘Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: a reflection on the practices and discourses of

decolonisation.’ The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 111, Issue 1, Winter, Pp. 96-109.

Todd, Z. 2016. ‘An indigenous feminist’s take on the ontological turn: ‘ontology’ is just

another word for colonialism’. Journal of Historical Sociology. Vol. 29, No. 1. March.

Pp. 4-22.

De la Cadena, M. 2010. ‘Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: conceptual reflections

beyond “politics”. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 334-370.

Secondary Readings:

Hunt, S. 2014. ‘Ontologies of indigeneity: the politics of embodying a concept.’ cultural

geographies Vol. 21, Iss. 1. Pp. 27-32.

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Radcliffe, S. 2015. ‘Postcolonial heterogeneity: sumak kawsay and decolonising social

difference.’ In Dilemmas of Difference: Indigenous Women and the Limits of

Postcolonial Development Policy. (Durham and London: Duke University Press) pp. 257-290.

Radcliffe, S. 2012. ‘Development for a postneoliberal era? Sumak kawsay, living well and

the limits to decolonisation in Ecuador’. Geoforum. Vol. 43.pp. 240-249.

Stengers I. 2005. The cosmopolitical proposal. In: Latour B and Weibel P (eds) Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 994–1003.

Viveiros de Castro E. 1998. Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(3): 469–488. Viveiros de Castro E. 2004. Exchanging perspectives: The transformation of objects into subjects in Amerindian ontologies. Common Knowledge 10(3): 463–484. Watson MC. 2011. Cosmopolitics and the subaltern: Problematizing Latour’s idea of the commons. Theory, Culture & Society 28(3): 55–79.

Watson, MC. 2014. ‘Derrida, Stengers, Latour, and Subalternist Cosmopolitics’ Theory, Culture, and

Society. 31(1). Pp. 75-98.

Seminar 3: Listening to ecologies of thought

W14 - Tues. 31.01.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 – MJ

Keywords: stories, matter, animism, cosmopolitics, ontology, listening

Primary Readings:

Cruikshank, J. 2005. ‘Constructing life stories: glaciers as social spaces.’ Do Glaciers Listen? Local

Knowledges, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia

Press) Pp. 50-75.

Hallowell, A.I. 1975 [1960]. ‘Ojibwa Ontology, Behaviour, and World View’ in Teachings

from the American Earth, ed. Dennis and Barbara Tedlock (NY: Liveright, 1975) pp.141-179.

Image from: remezcla.com/lists/film/68-voces-animated-short-films-mexico-indigenous-languages/

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Povinelli, E. 2016. ‘The Three Figures of Geontology’, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late

Liberalism. (Durham and London: Duke University Press) pp. 1-29.

Secondary Readings:

Bracken, C. 2007. ‘Introduction’, Magical Criticism: The Recourse of Savage Philosophy. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press.

Iovino, S. and Oppermann, S. 2014. ‘Stories come to matter.’ Material Ecocriticism. S. Iovino and

S. Opermann, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp.1-17

Palsson, G. 2013. ‘Ensembles of biosocial relations’. In Ingold T, G. Palsson eds. Biosocial

Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

pp. 22–41.

Povinelli, E. 1995. ‘Do rocks listen? The cultural politics of apprehending Australian Aboriginal law.’

American Anthropologist, Vol. 97. No. 3, Pp. 505-518.

Vazquez, R. 2012. ‘Towards a Decolonial Critique of Modernity: Buen Vivir, Relationality and the Task of

Listening. In, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.), Capital, Poverty, Development, Denktraditionen im Dialog:

Studien zur Befreiung und interkulturalität, Vol 33, Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz: Aachen. pp 241-252.

Vivieros de Castro, E. 2013. ‘Economic Development and cosmopolitical re-involvement: From necessity

to sufficiency.’ Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge. Ed. L. Green.

(Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council) Pp. 28-41.

http://artseverywhere.ca/2016/03/23/1218/

Seminar 4: Poesis and the Language of Relation

W15 - Tues. 07.02.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 – MJ

Keywords: poetics, poesis, poetry, relation, semiosis, sociogeny, politics of being

Primary Readings:

Césaire, A. 1996. [1945]. ‘Poetry and Knowledge.’ Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and

the Caribbean. London and New York: Verso. Pp. 134-146.

Glissant, É. 1997. [1990]. Poetics of Relation. Trans. B. Wing. (Ann Arbor: University of

Michigan Press) Pp. 1-35.

Kohn, E. 2013. ‘The Open Whole.’ How Forests Think: Toward and Anthropology Beyond

the Human. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 27-68.

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Secondary Readings:

Glover, K.L. 2010. Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.

Liverpool University Press, 2010.

Henry, R. 2011. ‘Creative Networks: The Poetic Politics of Indigeneity.’ The Challenge of

Indigenous Peoples. Eds. B. Glowczewski and R. Henry. Oxford: Bardwell, pp. 236-247.

Jackson, M. 2016. ‘Aesthetics, Politics, and Attunement: On Some Questions Brought by

Alterity and Ontology’, GeoHumanities, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 8-23.

Last, A. 2015. ‘We are the World? Anthropocene Cultural Production between Geopoetics and

Geopolitics’ Theory, Culture and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276415598626

Massumi, B. 2015. ‘Such As It Is: A Short Essay on Extreme Realism.’ Body and Society

Online First, November 12, 2015. 1-13 10.1177/1357034X15612896.

Massumi, B. 2014. What Animals Teach Us About Politics. Durham and London: Duke

University Press.

Mignolo, W. et al, 2011. ‘A Manifesto: Decolonial Aesthetics (1)’.

https://transnationaldecolonialinstitute.wordpress.com/decolonial-aesthetics/. (last accessed

22.12.2015).

Mignolo, W. and Vásquez, R. 2013. ‘Decolonial AestheSis: Colonial Wounds/Decolonial

Healings’. SocialText. socialtextjournal.org/periscope_topic/decolonial_aesthesis/

Puig de la Bellacasa, M. 2015. ‘Ecological Thinking, Material Spirituality, and the Poetics of

Infrastructure’, Eds. G.C. Bowker, et al. Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working withLeigh Star.

Cambridge, Mass. And London: MIT Press. Pp. 47-68.

Simpson, L. 2011. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation,

Resurgence, and a New Emergence. Winnipeg: ARP Books.

Thomas, A.C. 2015. ‘Indigenous more-than-humanisms: relational ethics with the Hurunui River in

Aotearoa New Zealand.’ Social & Cultural Geography Vol. 16. Iss. 8. Pp.974-990.

Wheeler, W. 2014. ‘Natural Play, Natural Metaphor, and Natural Stories: Biosemiotic Realism’ In

Material Eco-criticsm, S. Iovino and S. Opermann, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 67-79.

Painting by Frankétienne

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http://www.stewardshipreport.com/which-publisher-in-the-u-s-will-discover-brilliant-haitian-writer-franketienne/

Seminar 5: Re-thinking Humanism with Sylvia Wynter

W16 - Tues. 14.02.17 - 1400-1600 - SR1 – MJ

Keywords: humanism, Man, over-representation, politics of being, sociogeny, autopoesis

Primary Readings:

Wynter, S. 2003. ‘Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the

Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation – An Argument’ CR: The New Centennial

Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 257-337.

Secondary Readings:

Cornell, D and S. Seely. 2016. ‘Undertaking Man, Making the Human: Toward a New Ceremony, For

Sylvia Wynter.’ The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp.

119 - 158.

Image of Sylvia Wynter

McKittrick, K. 2006. ‘Demonic Grounds: Sylvia Wynter.’ Demonic Grounds: Black Women

and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pp.

121-146.

Mignolo, W. 2015. ‘Sylvia Wynter: What does it Mean to Be Human.’ Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human

as Praxis. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Pp. 106-123.

Roberts, N. 2006. ‘Sylvia Wynter’s Hedgehogs: The Challenge for Intellectuals to Create New ‘Forms

of Life’ in Pursuit of Freedom.’ After Man Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter. Ed.

Anthony Bogues. Kingston and Miami: Ian Randle Publishers. Pp. 157-189.

Scott, D. 2000. “The Re-enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter” Small

Axe Vol. 8, September, pp. 119-207.

Wynter, S. 1984. ‘The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism’ boundary 2, Vol. 12, No. 3. Pp. 19-

70.

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Wynter, S. ‘Human Being as Noun? Or Being Human as Praxis? Toward the Autopoetic

Turn/Overturn: A Manifesto.’ [online] http://otl2.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Autopoetic+Turn.pdf.

[Accessed: 11.12.2016].

PART II

Session 6: Dispossession and the emergence of multispecies ethnography

W17 - Mon. 20.02.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

Keywords: Accumulation by dispossession, enclosure/commons, extinction, ontology, indigeneity,

semiosis, interspecies ethnography

Primary Readings:

Kirksey, S., & Helmreich, S. (2010). The emergence of multispecies ethnography. Cultural Anthropology,

25(4), 545-576.

Li, T. M. (2010). Indigeneity, capitalism, and the management of dispossession. Current Anthropology,

51, 385-414

Perreault, T. (2013). Dispossession by accumulation? Mining, water and the nature of enclosure on the

Bolivian Altiplano. Antipode, 45(5), 1050-1069.

Secondary Readings:

Baynes-Rock, M. (2013). Life and death in the multispecies commons. Social Science Information, 52(2),

210-227.

Ingold, T. (2013). Anthropology beyond humanity. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish

Anthropological Society, 38(3).

Kohn, E. (2007). How dogs dream: Amazonian natures and the politics of transspecies engagement.

American ethnologist, 34(1), 3-24. // Kohn, E. (2013) “Introduction”, and “The living thought”, in: How

Forests Think. University of California Press, 1-26 & 71-102.

Livingston, J., & Puar, J. K. (2011). Interspecies. Social Text, 29(1 106), 3-14.

Murrey, A. (2015). Invisible power, visible dispossession: the witchcraft of a subterranean

pipeline. Political Geography, 47, 64-76.

Rose, D. B. (2011). Wild dog dreaming: Love and extinction. University of Virginia Press.

Sodikoff, G. M. (2012). The anthropology of extinction: essays on culture and species death. Indiana

University Press.

Van Dooren, T. (2014). Flight ways: life and loss at the edge of extinction. Columbia University Press.

See also online resources: Multispecies salon: multispecies-salon.org

2011 Culture@Large Session: The Human is More than Human. Cultural Anthropology.

Keck, Frederick. 2013. Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human.

Somatosphere.

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Cranespotters, by Jethro Brice from https://unrulywaters.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/cranespotters-web.jpg

Seminar 7: Decolonising bios? Plant genetic resources and questions of commons

W18 - Mon. 27.02.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 – NM

Keywords: Biotechnology, seed sovereignty, commons, intellectual property, cosmopolitics, plant

agency

Primary Readings:

Hayden, C. (2007). Taking as Giving Bioscience, Exchange, and the Politics of Benefit-sharing. Social

Studies of Science, 37(5), 729-758.

Kloppenburg, J. (2010). Impeding dispossession, enabling repossession: biological open source and the

recovery of seed sovereignty. Journal of agrarian change, 10(3), 367-388.

Van Dooren, T. (2008). Inventing seed: the nature(s) of intellectual property in plants. Environment and

planning. D, Society and space, 26(4), 676.

Secondary Readings:

Gaalaas Mullaney, E. (2014) Geopolitical maize: Peasant seeds, everyday practices, and food

security in Mexico. Geopolitics, 19(2), 406-430.

Gemein, M. (2016) “Seeds Must Be Among the Greatest Travelers of All”: Native American Literatures

Planting the Seeds for a Cosmopolitical Environmental Justice Discourse. ISLE, 23(3) 485-505.

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Graddy, T. G. (2014). Situating in situ: a critical geography of agricultural biodiversity conservation in

the Peruvian Andes and beyond. Antipode, 46(2), 426-454.

Hayden, C. (2006). When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico.

Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 11(2), 449-451.

Head, L., Atchison, J., & Phillips, C. (2015). The distinctive capacities of plants: Re‐thinking difference

via invasive species. Trans. of the Institute of British Geographers, 40(3), 399-413.

Kull, C. A., & Rangan, H. (2008). Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant

movements. Geoforum, 39(3), 1258-1272.

Pollan, M. (2013) The intelligent plant. The New Yorker, December 23 2013. Available online at:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant

Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2014). Encountering bioinfrastructure: Ecological struggles and the sciences of

soil. Social Epistemology, 28(1), 26-40.

Taussig, M. (1987) “Revolutionary plants”, in: Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man. University of

Chicago Press.

Tsing, A. (2004) “A history of weediness”, in: Friction, A Global Ethnography of Connection. Princeton

University Press, 171-204.

Seminar 8: “Earth beings” and hybrid cultures in transnational food movements

W19 - Mon. 06.03.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

Keywords: Hybridity, food justice/sovereignty, transnational agrarian movements, Madre Tierra,

cosmovision, Buen Vivir

Primary Readings:

Fabricant, N. (2013). Good living for whom? Bolivia’s climate justice movement and the limitations of

indigenous cosmovisions. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 8, 159-178.

Turning Inwards, Louise Bourgeois

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Martinez-Torres, M. E., & Rosset, P. M. (2010). La Vía Campesina: the birth and evolution of a

transnational social movement. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 37(1), 149-175.

Millner, N. (2016) “The right to food is nature too”: Food justice and everyday environmental expertise

in the Salvadoran permaculture movement. Local Environment, ahead-of-print. Available online at:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2016.1272560

Secondary Readings:

Anzaldúa, G. (1987). Borderlands: The new mestiza = La frontera. San Francisco, Spinsters/Aunt Lute.

Borras, S. M. (2010). The politics of transnational agrarian movements. Development and Change,

41(5), 771-803.

Carolan, M. (2016). The Sociology of Food and Agriculture. London: Routledge. (NB: See also other

articles by Carolan on embodied food politics).

De la Cadena, M. (2010). Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: conceptual reflections beyond

“politics”. Cultural Anthropology, 25, 334e370.

Edelman, M. (2005). “Bringing the Moral Economy back in… to the Study of 21st- Century

Transnational Peasant Movements”. American Anthropologist, 107(3), 331-345.

Radcliffe, S. A. (2012). Development for a postneoliberal era? Sumak kawsay, living well and the

limits to decolonisation in Ecuador. Geoforum, 43(2), 240-249.

Sidaway, J. D., Woon, C. Y., & Jacobs, J. M. (2014). Planetary postcolonialism. Singapore Journal of

Tropical Geography, 35, 4e21. (NB: this is an editorial, see also articles in this special edition).

Slocum, R., & Saldanha, A. (2016). Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets. London:

Routledge.

Stockhammer, P. W.,

Pappa, E., Hitchcock, L., Maeir, A.,

Naum, M., Langin-Hooper, S., ... &

Loren, D. D. (2013). Archaeology

and Cultural Mixture: Creolization,

Hybridity and Mestizaje.

Archaeological Review

from Cambridge, 28(1),

Available online at:

https://www.academia.edu/2947435/Van_Pelt_W.P._2013._Archaeology_and_Cultural_Mixture_Cr

eolization_Hybridity_and_Mestizaje._Archaeological_Review_from_Cambridge_28.1

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Seminar 9: Decolonising

microbiopolitics?

W20 - Mon. 13.03.17 - 1500-1700 - SR2 - NM

Keywords: Microbe, global health, virus & viral becoming, toxicity, epidemics, affect & racial

mattering, figuration, ecological aesthetics.

Primary Readings:

Chen, M. Y. (2012). Introduction: Animating Animacy. In: Animacies: Biopolitics, racial mattering, and

queer affect. Duke University Press, 1-22. Available online:

https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-5272-3_601.pdf

Hird, M. J. (2010). Meeting with the microcosmos. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,

28(1), 36-39 & Haraway, D. (2010). When species meet: Staying with the trouble. Environment and

Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), 53-55 & Beisel, U. (2010). Jumping hurdles with mosquitoes?

Environment and planning. D, Society and space, 28(1), 46-49.

Paxson, H. (2008). Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw‐Milk Cheese in the United

States. Cultural Anthropology, 23(1), 15-47.

Secondary Readings:

Chen, M. Y. (2011). Toxic animacies, inanimate affections. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies,

17(2-3), 265-286.

Cormier, L. A. (2013). The Ten Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malaria.

London: Routledge.

Greenhough, B. (2012). Where species meet and mingle: endemic human-virus relations, embodied

communication and more-than-human agency at the Common Cold Unit 1946-1990. cultural

geographies, online at:

http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/06/1474474011422029.full.pdf+html

Lowe, C. (2010). Viral clouds: becoming H5N1 in Indonesia. Cultural Anthropology, 25(4), 625-649.

Nading, A. M. (2012). Dengue mosquitoes are single mothers: biopolitics meets ecological aesthetics in

Nicaraguan community health work. Cultural Anthropology, 27(4), 572-596.

Paxson, H., & Helmreich, S. (2014). The perils and promises of microbial abundance: Novel natures and

model ecosystems, from artisanal cheese to alien seas. Social Studies of Science, 44(2), 165-193.

Raffles, H. (2010). Insectopedia. Vintage.

Tsing, A. (2012). Unruly edges: mushrooms as companion species. Environmental Humanities, 1, 141-

154.

installingorder.org/author/steffishel/

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Seminar 10: Decolonising the university

W21 - Mon. 20.03.17 - 1500-1700 - SR1 - NM/MJ

Read both:

Tuck, E. and Yang, E.W. 2012. ‘Decolonization is not a metaphor.’ Decolonization: Indigeneity,

Education, Society. Vol. 1, No. 1. Pp. 1-40.

Selection from Wekker, G., et al. 2016. Let’s do diversity: report of the diversity commission, University

of Amsterdam. Diversity Commission: University of Amsterdam.

Plus, pick one from:

Cupples J, and Glynn K. 2014. ‘Indigenizing and decolonizing higher education on

Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast.’ Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1): 56-71.

Spivak, G.C. 2012. ‘Introduction.’ An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation (Cambridge, Mass.:

Harvard University Press) Pp. 1-34.

Battiste, M. 2011. Introduction and Chapter 15. In Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and

vision. UBC Press, 2011.

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Deloria Jr, Vine and Daniel Wildcat. 2001. Power and Place: Indian Education in America.

Boulder: American Indian Graduate Centre.

Grande, S. 2015. Introduction and Chapter 1, and responses from Tippeconnic III and

Goldstein. In Red pedagogy: Native American social and political thought. Rowman & Littlefield.

Grande, S. 2003. "Whitestream feminism and the colonialist project: A review of

contemporary feminist pedagogy and praxis." Educational Theory 53(3):

329-346.

McCarty, T. L. 2004. "Dangerous difference: A critical-historical analysis of language

education policies in the United States." Medium of instruction policies: Which agenda? Whose agenda?

Pp. 71-96.

Patel, L. 2015. Research as Relational. In Decolonizing Educational Research: From

Ownership to Answerability. Abingdon: Routledge.

Simpson, L. 2002. "Indigenous environmental education for cultural survival." Canadian

Journal of Environmental Education, CJEE, 7(1): 13-25.

Smith, L.T. 2011. Introduction and “Twenty Five Indigenous Research Projects.” In

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. 2nd Ed. Zed books.

Stewart-Harawira, Makere. 2013. "Challenging Knowledge Capitalism: Indigenous Research in the

21st Century." Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes 9(1).

Wildcat, M. et al. 2014. "Learning from the land: Indigenous land based pedagogy and

decolonization." Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, Society. 3(3).

Mural by indigenous artists adorned the walls of Warisata. Murals courtesy of Carlos Salazar Mostajo/Gesta Y

Fotografia, Historia de Warisata En Imagenes http://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/bolivias-indigenous-

universities