Main group 1

Group 1 - core literature

Please pick at least 2 of the following 6 books- you may choose all 6 if you really wish to

• Akomolafe, Bayo, These wilds beyond our fences: letters to my daughter on humanity's search for home, Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, [2017]Compulsory*
• Hausdoerffer, John et al., What kind of ancestor do you want to be?, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2021Compulsory*
• Dabiri, Emma, What white people can do next: from allyship to coalition, London, Penguin Books, 2021Compulsory*
• Alaimo, Stacy, Exposed: environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times, 2016Compulsory*
• Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt et al., Arts of living on a damaged planet, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, [2017]Compulsory*
• Martusewicz, Rebecca A.; Edmundson, Jeff.; Lupinacci, John., EcoJustice education: toward diverse, democratic, and sustainable communities, Second edition., New York, Routledge, 2015Compulsory*

Group 2 - Scientific discourse

Pick one of the books in group 2

• Hansen, James C., Storms of my grandchildren: the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity, New York, Bloomsbury, 2009Compulsory*
• Emanuel, Kerry A., What we know about climate change, 2018Compulsory*
• Hulme, Mike, Contemporary climate change debates: a student primer, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2020Compulsory*

Group 3: Other Considered Works

Chose books from here so that your complete list of books for the course are 5-6

• Ghosh, Amitav, great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable, 2016
• Bennett, Jane, Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2010
• Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2015
• Ahmed, Sara, Queer phenomenology: orientations, objects, others, Durham, Duke University Press, 2006
• Barrineau, Susanna; Engström, Alexis; Schnaas, Ulrike, An Active Student Participation Companion, Uppsala, Avdelningen för kvalitetsutveckling - Enheten för universitetspedagogik, 2019
• Ingold, Tim, Correspondences, uuuu-uuuu
• Bauman, Zygmunt, Consuming life, Cambridge, Polity, 2007
• Roy, Arundhati, Azadi: freedom, fascism, fiction, [London], Penguin Books, 2020
• Goldman, Mara; Nadasdy, Paul; Turner, Matthew D., Knowing Nature: conversations at the intersection of political ecology and science studies, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011
• Mbembe, Joseph-Achille, Necropolitics, Durham, Duke University Press, 2019
• Natania Meeker, Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction, Fordham University Press, 2020

Course reader

• Course ReaderCompulsory* (A course reader consisting of 3–4 texts, videos or other type of learning material per week. This will be avaliable through Studium.)

* Compulsory