Introduction to Global Environmental History 2: Changing Perceptions of Humans and Nature
Reading list, Master's level, 5KV029
Main group 1
Seminar 1
The Augsburg Cabinet related to Issues concerning Nature and Culture in Local and Global Perspective
- Boström, Hans-Olof, Det underbara skåpet: Philipp Hainhofer och Gustav II Adolfs konstskåp, Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2001Compulsory
- Coates, Peter, Nature: western attitudes since ancient times, London, Polity, 1998Compulsory
- Mauriès, Patrick, Cabinets of curiosities, London, Thames & Hudson, 2011Compulsory
Seminar 2
National and International Rules about Landscape, Culture and Environment
- Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Coppolillo, Peter, Conservation: linking ecology, economics, and culture, Princeton, Princeton University Press, cop. 2005Compulsory (The many roads to conservation, pp. 1–26.)
- Daugstad, Karoline; Grytli, Eir, How to Study and Manage a Multihistoric Landscape, Part of: Norsk geografisk tidsskrift: Norwegian journal of geography, vol. 53, no. 1-2, 1999, p. 85–92Compulsory (pp. 85–92)
- European landscape convention =: Convention européenne du paysage, 20.10.2000, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2004Compulsory
- Lowenthal, David, Heritage Care: From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower, Part of: Change over time, vol. 1, 2011Compulsory (Issue Spring 2011, pp. 130–136)
UN 1992, Convention on Biodiversity, http://www.cbd.int/convention/text/default.shtml
UNESCO 1972, Convention concerning the protection of World Heritage, http://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/
Seminar 3
The Musealisation of Nature
- Asma, Stephen T., Stuffed animals & pickled heads: the culture and evolution of natural history museums, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 2001Compulsory (pp. 154–202)
- Bal, Mieke, Double exposures: the subject of cultural analysis, New York, Routledge, 1996Compulsory (Chapt. 1)
- Wonders, Karen, Habitat dioramas: illusions of wilderness in museums of natural history, Uppsala, Univ., 1993Compulsory (pp. 148–192)
- Haraway, Donna, Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxedermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936, Part of: Primate visions: gender, race and nature in the world of modern science, London, Verso, 1992Compulsory (pp.26–58)
Seminar 4
Ecological Art, Landscape Art and Street Art in a Global Perspective
- Kimvall, Jacob, The Border Fortification as Symbol of Freedom, Part of: Ord och bild: illustrerad månadsskrift, no. 1-2, 2010Compulsory
- Visconti, Luca M et al., Street Art, Sweet Art?: Reclaiming the 'Public' in Public Place, Part of: Journal of consumer research: an interdisciplinary quarterly, vol. 37, 2010Compulsory (pp. 511–529)
Seminar 5
Landscapes and Gardens - from Linnaeus to Arcadia
- Auricchio, Laura.; Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn.; Pacini, Giulia., Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660-1830, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2012Compulsory
- Andrews, Malcolm, Landscape and Western art, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999Compulsory
- Schama, Simon, Landscape and memory, London, Fontana, 1996Compulsory
Seminar 6
Nature and Human through History
- Cosgrove, Denis E.; Daniels, Stephen, The iconography of landscape: essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988Compulsory (Introduction, pp. 1–11)
- DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.; Handley, George B., Postcolonial ecologies: literatures of the environment, New York, Oxford University Press, cop. 2011Compulsory
- Escobar, Arturo, After Nature: Steps to an Anti-essentialist Political Ecology, Part of: Current anthropology., vol. 40, no. 1, 1999, p. 30Compulsory (p. 30)
- Ingold, Tim, The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill., London, RoutledgeCompulsory (The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, pp. 1–26.)
- Haraway, Donna, Encounters with Companion Species: Entangling Dogs, Baboons, Philosophers and Biologists, Part of: Configurations, vol. 14, no. 1-2, 2006Compulsory (pp. 97–114)
- Merchant, Carolyn, Ecology: Key Concepts in Critical Theory, Part of: Ecology, Amherst, N.Y., Humanity Books, 2008Compulsory (Introduction, pp. 15–42 Reinventing Eden, pp. 311–329)
Seminar 7
Nature through Media
- Baker, Steve, Contemporary Art and Animal Rights, Part of: Considering animals: contemporary studies in human-animal relations, Farnham, Surrey, England, Ashgate Pub., c2011, p. 13–28Compulsory (pp. 13–28)
- Leane, Elizabeth; Pfenningswerth, Stephanie, Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films, Part of: Considering animals: contemporary studies in human-animal relations, Farnham, Surrey, England, Ashgate Pub., c2011, p. 29–40Compulsory (pp. 29–40)
- Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Coppolillo, Peter, Conservation: linking ecology, economics, and culture, Princeton, Princeton University Press, cop. 2005Compulsory (pp. 81–103, 181–206)
Oelsner, Gertrud: The Democracy of Nature, 2012
In: Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms, Vol 1:2012, pp. 69-99
ISBN 978 87 7124 086 3
ISSN 2245-599X
Seminar 8
Art threatened, Threatening Nature
- Adorno, Theodor W., Aesthetic theory, London, Athlone, 1997Compulsory (pp. 61–78)
- Flodin, Camilla, Art and Threatened, Threatening Nature, Part of: EurozineCompulsory
- Flodin, Camilla, Of Mice and Men: Adorno on Art and the Suffering of Animals, Part of: Estetika (Praha)., vol. 02, 2011Compulsory (pp. 139–156 www.ceeol.com)
Tickell, Alison, 2010, "Julies bicycle", Long Horizons: an exploration of the art of climate change.
British Council, (http://www.britishcouncil.org/climatechange-longhorizons-2.pdf)
Seminar 9
Nature and Dystopia
- Smith, George S.; Messenger, Phyllis Mauch; Soderland, Hilary A., Heritage values in contemporary society, Walnut Creek, Calif., Left Coast Press, c2010Compulsory
- Schofield, John; Szymanski, Rosy, Local heritage, global context: cultural perspectives on sense of place, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, cop. 2011Compulsory
Seminar 10
Worldviews, Religion, Ethics and the Environment
- Berry, Thomas, The New Story, Part of: Worldviews, religion, and the environment: a global anthology, Australia, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003Compulsory (pp. 525–531)
- Graham, Mary, Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews, Part of: Worldviews, religion, and the environment: a global anthology, Australia, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003Compulsory (pp. 89–96)
- Macy, Johanna, The Ecological Self: Postmodern Ground for Right Action, Part of: Worldviews, religion, and the environment: a global anthology, Australia, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003Compulsory (pp. 441–446)
- Nabhan, Gary Paul, Cultural Parallallax in viewing North American Habitats, Part of: Worldviews, religion, and the environment: a global anthology, Australia, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003Compulsory (pp. 104–111)
- Sharma, B. D., On Sustainability, Part of: Worldviews, religion, and the environment: a global anthology, Australia, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003Compulsory (pp. 495–500)
- White Jr, Lynn, The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crises, Part of: Worldviews, religion, and the environment: a global anthology, Australia, Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003Compulsory (pp. 30–37)
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