Proshant Chakraborty

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How do anthropologists, as social scientists, engage with themes, questions and colleagues in fields like environmental or natural sciences? What are the forms of public engagement that can emerge from such scientific endeavors?

We will discuss some of the broad trends in, and within, the anthropology of science and the environment, and then engage with some concrete cases of such engagements, especially for queer and feminist perspectives.

Mandatory readings:

Fairhead, James, and Melissa Leach. 2019. Ch 11: Environment and Anthropology. From Exotic No More.

Fortun, Mike, and Kim Fortun. 2019. Ch 13. Anthropologies of the Sciences. From Exotic No More.

Optional mandatory reading (choose one):

Liboiron, Max. 2021. Ch 3: An anti-colonial pollution science. From Pollution is Colonialism.

Mehrabi, Tara. 2020. Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens. Australian Feminist Studies, 35:104, 138-154, DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2020.1775068.