The lecture focus on the human relationship to nature. The lecture addresses how human's perception of nature relate to the practice of power, to industrial development, colonialism and expansions. We discuss if humans relation to nature must change and how, with what implications? what are the ideas and forces that may contribute to change and transformation? Is it about 'saving the climate' or about 'saving humans' in an increasingly hostile world of the Anthropocene?

Lecturer: Sofie Hellberg

Lecture slides

Obligatory Reading:

Dalby, Simon. 2019. ‘What happens if we don't take nature for granted?’ (Chapter 3), in Global Politics: A New Introduction, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfus. New York: Routledge, pp: 38-56.

Death, Carl 2019. ‘Can we save the planet?’ (Chapter 4), in Global Politics: A New Introduction, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfus. New York: Routledge, pp: 57-78.

Suggestions:

Short film by BBC on human-nature relations in a global perspective

Essay by Val Plumwood on Being Prey

Novel in English: Weather by Jenny Offill

Novel in Swedish: Binas historia by Maja Lunde

Classic movie (2004) The Day after Tomorrow