Syllabus for Modern Natures: Conflicts and Transformation
Modern natur: konflikter och omvandlingar
A revised version of the syllabus is available.
Syllabus
- 7.5 credits
- Course code: 2EH421
- Education cycle: Second cycle
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Main field(s) of study and in-depth level:
Economic History A1N,
Archaeology A1N,
Global Environmental History A1N
Explanation of codes
The code indicates the education cycle and in-depth level of the course in relation to other courses within the same main field of study according to the requirements for general degrees:
First cycle
- G1N: has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
- G1F: has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- G1E: contains specially designed degree project for Higher Education Diploma
- G2F: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- G2E: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements, contains degree project for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
- GXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Second cycle
- A1N: has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- A1F: has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- A1E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits)
- A2E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (120 credits)
- AXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
- Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
- Established: 2016-10-10
- Established by:
- Revised: 2018-05-14
- Revised by: The Department Board
- Applies from: Autumn 2020
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Entry requirements:
A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. The main field of study must be within the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Social Sciences or the Faculty of Science and Technology.
- Responsible department: Department of Economic History
Learning outcomes
A student who has successfully completed the course will be able to:
- account for influential debates in environmental history on socio-economic and political conflicts arising from human-nature interaction in the modern era.
- describe and assess general historical trajectories of human-nature relations from the perspective of colonialism, industrialisation and the development of modern states.
- critically account for and assess one specific ongoing environmental conflict.
Content
This course introduces the students to global environmental history from the perspective of the dynamic and historically transformative relationship between nature and social forces. The course has as a main focus the modern period to the present (ca. 1700 - today). Three themes of the study of human-nature relations are highlighted: 1. 'Nature as a resource and nature under stress'; 2. 'Governing Nature: Political and technical solutions to societal transformation and social conflict'; 3. 'Nature conservation, policy and politics of nature'. The course has an interdisciplinary perspective, specifically representing research in economic history, agrarian and urban studies, and environmental policy.
Instruction
Instruction consists of lectures and seminars.
Assessment
Assessment includes oral as well as written examination.
If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.
Other directives
This course overlaps with the course 5HA007 and cannot be used in the same degree.
Syllabus Revisions
- Latest syllabus (applies from Spring 2021)
- Previous syllabus (applies from Autumn 2020)
- Previous syllabus (applies from Autumn 2017)
Reading list
Reading list
Applies from: Autumn 2020
Some titles may be available electronically through the University library.
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Acheson, J
"Ostrom for Anthropologists"
Part of:
International journal of the commonsPage 319-339
Mandatory
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Allen, Robert C;
Keay, Ian
Saving the Whales: : Lessons from the Extinction of the Eastern Arctic Bowhead
Part of:
The journal of economic history.Mandatory
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Berge, Erling
Protected areas and traditional commons: : values and institutions
Part of:
Norsk geografisk tidsskrift : Norwegian journal of geographyMandatory
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Brain, Stephen
The appeal of appearing green : Soviet-American ideological competition and Cold War environmental diplomacy
Part of:
Cold War history2000-
vol. 16 (2016) nr. 4 s. 443-462page 443-462
Mandatory
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Cleaver, F
'Reinventing institutions : Bricolage and the Social Embeddeness of Natural Resource Management'
Part of:
The European journal of development research.Page 11-30
Mandatory
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Davies, Mike
'The Political Ecology of Famine'
Part of:
Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third worldLondon: Verso, 2001
Page 277-310
Mandatory
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Strategic Arctic science : national interests in building natural knowledge interwar era through the Cold War
Doel, Ronald E;
Friedman, Robert Marc;
Lajus, Julia;
Sörlin, Sverker;
Wråkberg, Urban
Part of:
Journal of historical geography.Page 60-80
Mandatory
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Edwards, Paul N.
A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2010
Page 1-25
Mandatory
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Edwards, Paul N.
Global climate science, uncertainty and politics : Data‐laden models, model‐filtered data
Part of:
Science as culture.London: Taylor & Francis, 2000-
vol. 8 (1999) nr. 4 s. 437-472Mandatory
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Fleming, James Rodger
Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control
New York: Columbia University Press, c2010.
Mandatory
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Goudie, Andrew
The human impact on the natural environment : past, present, and future
6th ed.: Oxford: Blackwell, 2006
Chapter 1, introduction', page 7-22
Mandatory
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Guldi, Jo;
Armitage, David
The history manifesto
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Page 1-164
Mandatory
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Johnson, C
'Uncommon ground : The "Poverty of History" in Common Property Discourse'
Part of:
Development and changePage 407-433
Mandatory
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Kander, Astrid;
Malanima, Paolo;
Warde, Paul
Power to the people : energy in Europe over the last five centuries
Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2013
Page 1-386
Mandatory
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Masco, Joseph
Bad Weather : On Planetary Crisis
Part of:
Social studies of science.[London]: SAGE Publications, 1999-
vol. 40 (2010) nr. 1 s. 7-40Mandatory
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McNeill, John Robert;
Unger, Corinna R.
Environmental histories of the Cold War
Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2010
Intro and closing chapters plus one chapter of your choice
Mandatory
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Mosley, Stephen
The environment in world history
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010
Page 1-116. Also available as e-book.
Mandatory
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Radkau, Joachim
Nature and power : a global history of the environment
1. English ed.: Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2008
P. 1-112
Mandatory
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Räsänen, Tuomas;
Laakkonen, Simo
Cold War and the Environment : The Role of Finland in International Environmental Politics in the Baltic Sea Region
Part of:
Ambio : a journal of the human environmentpage 229-236
Mandatory
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Scott, James C.
Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, cop. 1998
Mandatory