Informace o kurzu

Hameeteman, Elizabeth

LV-Nr.: 3131 L 332

BA-KulT WTG 4

BA-KulT WTG FW 14, 15
MA-TGWT WTG 3, 4
MA-TGWT FW 11, 12, 14

HS Climates of Waste: Toxicity, Health, and Justice in a Climate- Changing World
Di. 10-12 Uhr
Raum: H 7112, Anmeldung über ISIS
Beginn: 15.10.2024

The ubiquity of waste characterizes our contemporary age. Industrial processes, communication tools, means of transportation, patterns of consumption, and societal organizations writ large are bound to the productions of residuals, discards, surpluses. Waste impacts and defines both the human and more-than-human worlds, endangering ecological balances, impinging on planetary systems, and unearthing inequality. Indeed, with human-induced climate change and the triumph of global interdependence threatening more and more people’s lives and livelihoods, waste inequalities are likely set to exacerbate and expand in unprecedented and inescapable ways in the decades, even centuries, to come.

This course provides a historical context to understanding the different implications of waste in the context of climate change. We will work through historical case studies and critically examine the multifaceted origins of our waste-defined modernity. By doing so, this course explores the complex and shifting notions of “waste,” and the challenges and consequences of urban coexistence beyond established narratives.

Literatur:

Zsuzsa Gille, From Risk to Waste: Global Food Waste Regimes,” The Sociological Review 60, no. 2 (2012): 27-46. 
Gabrielle Hecht, “Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence,” Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 1 (2018): 109-141.
Max Liboiron, “Modern Waste as Strategy,” Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society 29 (2013): 9-12.
Michelle Murphy, “Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations,” Cultural Anthropology 32, no. 4 (2017): 494-503.
Francoise Vergès, “Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender,” e-flux Journal 100 (May 2019).