297C2
Advanced graduate seminar
SoSe 19: Toxic intimacies: chemicals, health, environment
Sandra Calkins-Schürg
Comments
Toxic chemicals are found in our food, have seeped into water, float in the air and have penetrated even the remotest living organisms on our planet. At a time when the effect of collective human activity on the planet outperforms geophysical forces, this seminar thinks through the consequences of old and new intimacies with toxic substances (pharmaceutical use, CO2 emissions, waste, etc.), questions attempts to purify and extricate oneself from toxic entanglements, and examines the notion of toxicity and its blurring of conceptual boundaries between life and non-life. Students engage with a critical literature on toxicity and waste, the globally uneven distribution of toxic burdens, and explore ways of doing „chemical ethnography". close
Suggested reading
Recommended:
- Shapiro, Nicholas and Eben Kirksey. 2017. "Chemo-Ethnography: An Introduction." Cultural Anthropology 32 (4): 481-493.
- Shapiro, Nicholas and Eben Kirksey. 2017. "Chemo-Ethnography: An Introduction." Cultural Anthropology 32 (4): 481-493.
12 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Wed, 2019-06-19 16:00 - 18:00Regular appointments
Wed, 2019-04-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-04-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-04-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-15 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-22 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-29 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-07-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-07-10 14:00 - 16:00