Reading the Anthropocene

Organizers
Chris Boyer, History and Latino and Latin American Studies
Rachel Havrelock, English and Jewish Studies

 

Reading selections for 2014-2015 have been announced!  Stay tuned for exact dates and times.

Behringer, Wolfgang, A Cultural History of Climate, trans. Patrick Camiller (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity, 2010).

Mitchell, Timothy, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil.  (London:  Verso, 2011)

Cullather, Nick, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia.(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.)

Nixon, Rob, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).

Kohn, Eduardo, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. (Chapel Hill:   University of North Carolina Press, 2013.)