What is the relationship between the society and the environment in Southeastern Europe? How can environments be political? Where is the boundary between the human and the non-human – such as animals and plants? Is there such a thing as the domestic and the wild? Where does our waste go? And how do people live with toxicity and environmental degradation? Ecological Anthropologies in Southeastern Europe explores the answers to these questions and more. The course is designed around key questions and challenges in an emerging research field.
The purpose is not to provide a survey of the history of the field. Rather, the aim is to introduce students to a set of questions and analytic tools and invite them to move towards applying them to real-world cases. As general preparation, students have done the readings of the week and are ready to discuss them in class.
- Teacher: André Thiemann