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Root number
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506454 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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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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not defined |
| Title |
BA (MA) Sachbereichs-/Regionalübung: Watershed Thinking: Power, Imagination and Repair in Desert Ecologies |
| Description |
Be aware: if you sign in for the course, you signed in for the exam!
Deserts are often characterized as dangerous and barren landscapes, devoid of life, and thus, unworthy of care. Historically, this reductive narrative has underpinned settler colonial and imperial projects (Henni, 2022), justifying environmental and economic extraction. Reframing the desert in relation to water aims to trouble this perspective, revealing the underlying vulnerabilities of these fragile ecosystems that are often relegated to the margins. Watershed thinking, as an analytical tool, encourages recognition of the interdependent ecological relations binding human and non-human actors. In this course, we will examine critical theories of care, relationality and multispecies entanglements within desert landscapes–as sites of political contestation and imaginative potential. Engaging with film, photography, sound, creative writing, ethnography, Science and Technology Studies (STS), history, and archivel texts, we will consider three divergent desert ecologies–the Sonoran Desert in the US-Mexico borderlands, the Atacama Desert in Chile and the Namib Desert in Southern Africa. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Darcy Alexandra, 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 |
Tuesday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F 007, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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