Course syllabus

Warmly welcome to the course Environmental Ethnography (7,5 ECTS)! 

Language of instruction is English. 

This course is coordinated by Susann Baez Ullberg. Contact her if you have questions about the course and the teaching. For questions about admission etc., contact course administrator Angelika Holm.

The course starts with an introductory lecture on Monday October 30 at 13:15-16:00 in the classroom 7-0043 (Campus Engelska parken). On this occasion, you will also get important information about the course,. It is particularly important that you attend in this first class so that we know who are actually taking the course. The classes are held once a week, on Campus Engelska parken in Uppsala and on Zoom.

You find the schedule in TimeEdit and also soon in the weekly schedule with the reading instructions. In case of discrepancies between the two due to possible human errors, it is always the schedule here at Studium that is the correct one. The zoom links to the online classes will also be listed in the schedule and separately on the page Zoom links.

The course aims to present ethnographic perspectives on human-non-human relations. After completing the course, you are expected to be able to account for central themes in environmental ethnographic studies; to critically reason about the nature-culture entanglements; to explore environmental knowledge through ethnographic methods, to reflect on ethical and epistemological implications of environmental ethnographic studies and identify the contributions of such a perspective for a sustainable future. Read more about the course content and outline here.

We expect you to read the assigned book chapters and articles before you come to class, and to participate actively in each class. Read more about assignments, the attendance policy and the course examination here. You can expect to meet competent and engaged teachers who all do research on socio-environmental relations and who prepare each class carefully.

We use the book Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies (2018 Third Edition) by Patricia Townsend. You can buy this book through Amazon, or you can look for it at any of the second hand student book shops. It is of course also available at the University Library. In addition, articles and reports will be provided by the teachers during the course.

You will encounter engaged and knowledgeable teachers, who prepare each class carefully to meet your expectations. We are anthropologists and ethnologists that all undertake research on socio-environmental relations, and we apply ethnographic perspectives and methods in our work.

We look forward to meet you on October 30! Please prepare by reading the course information published under the module About the course and by reading the texts assigned before class!  Welcome!