Beşeri Coğrafya

Week 1: Carbon Emissions

McKibben, Bill. 2012. “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” Rolling Stone.

Week 2: Poverty and Alienation

Davis, Mike. 2007. “Slum Ecology.” In Planet of Slums, 121–150. Verso.

Watson, David. 2010. “Selected Excerpt.” In Against the Megamachine, 117–145. Brooklyn: Automomedia.

Week 3: Food and Capitalism

Singer, Peter, and Jim Mason. 2006. “The Hidden Costs of Cheap Chicken and Meat and Milk Factories.” In The Ethics of What We Eat, 19–33 and 39–63. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company.

Schlosser, Eric. 2001. “Why the Fries Taste Good.” In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Mariner Books.

PART II: LIFE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Week 4: Colonialism and Non-Humans

Landa, Manuel De. 2000. “Biological History: 1700-2000 A.D.” In A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, 149–182. The MIT Press.

Week 5: Sex, Blood and Animals

Bulliet, Richard. 2007. “Postdomesticity: Our Lives With Animals.” In Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships, 1-35. Columbia University Press.

Week 6: Governmentality and Life

Rose, Nikolas. 2006. “Politics and Life.” In The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, 41–76. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

PART III: STATE, POWER AND DISCIPLINE

 Week 7: Modernity and its Rationale

Scott, James C. 1999. “Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams.” In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 193–222. Yale University Press.

Harvey, David. 1974. “Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science.” Economic Geography 50 (3) (July 1): 256–277.

Week 8: “Peasants: A Sack Of Potatoes?”

Gupta, Akhil. 1998. “Peasants and Global Environmentalism: A New Form of Governmentality.” In Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India, 291–329. Duke University Press Books.

Bello, Walden. 2009. “Capitalism Versus the Peasant.” In The Food Wars, 19–38. London and New York: Verso.

Week 9: Measuring and Disciplining Nature

Scott, James C. 1999. “Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity.” In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 262–306. Yale University Press.

Week 10: Unexpected Consequences of Developmental Projects

Mitchell, Timothy. 2002. “Can the Mosquito Speak?” In Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

PART IV: HUMANS, NON-HUMANS AND HYBRIDS

Week 11: Separation of Nature and Culture

Latour, Bruno. 1993. “Relativism.” In We Have Never Been Modern, 91–129. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Week 12: Separation of Human and Animal

Bennett, Jane. 2004. “The Force of Things: Steps Toward an Ecology of Matter.” Political Theory 32 (3): 347–372.

Week 13: What is a Human?

Derrida, Jacques. 2002. “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow).” Critical Inquiry 28 (Winter): 369–418.