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Root number
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490351 |
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Semester
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HS2024 |
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Type of course
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Exercise |
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Allocation to subject
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Social Anthropology |
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Type of exam
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Assignment |
| Title |
BA/MA Theorie-Wahlpflichtübung: Political Ecology of human-predator relations and biodiversity conservation |
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What do lions, jaguars and wolves have in common? Within conservation discourses, predators are important for the wellbeing of ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems are considered to have high biodiversity according to western scientific knowledge. However, this debate ignores the influence of cultural landscapes on biodiversity and the co-creation between natural and cultural heritage. Igniting this movement around the importance of large predators was the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park and its subsequent celebration of wolves as “Keystone Species”, supposedly bringing back the balance in this ecosystem. At the same time, wolves migrated into Switzerland from Italy and encountered Alpine cultural landscapes that had been considered wolf-free for more than 150 years. Instead of balance, the wolves triggered new political debates about what nature is and what it should look like, who owns the Alps and whether there is any room at all for large carnivores in the human-dominated Swiss landscape. Because what is carefully left out in the debate around Yellowstone, or has rather been forcibly expelled, are humans.
The aim of this course is to show that anthropology has the means to engage with multiple realities and understandings of concepts such as nature and conservation. The focus lies on the one hand on analysing local, emic perspectives on human-predator relationships and on the other hand on embedding them in global debates and discourses. Using empirical examples from Ecuador, Kenya and Romania, we will address the question of what constitutes human-predator relations at different levels (local, regional, global) and how they are negotiated. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Tobias Haller, Institute of Social Anthropology ✉
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Lisa Alvarado Grefa-Lüscher, Institut für Sozialanthropologie - Professur Haller ✉
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Ariane Nora Zangger, Institute of Social Anthropology ✉
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Samuel Weissman, Institute of Social Anthropology ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Monday 12:15-14:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F -123, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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