AJ26001 Place, Ecology and Global Capital

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Timetable
Mon 15:00–15:45 VP, Mon 15:50–16:35 VP
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives (in Czech)
The course will consider a number of persepctives on issues relating to questions of place, ecology and global capitalism at the present time. A general, global sociological perspective will be provided by a reading of parts of Castell's Information Society trilogy. Subsequent lessons will focus on the work of Heidegger and Benjamin, Arne Naess and deep ecology, Gary Snyder and other ecological and place-focused poets, Felix Guattari's three ecologies - of mind, institutions and environment, Australian perspectives on relations between social justice and ecology, the significance of female and feminist perspectives, ecocriticism and the novel and other, related issues.
Syllabus
  • Week 1 Feb 24-Cancelled due to Dekanske volno Week 2 March 3 - Introductory Week 5 March 24-M.Castells - spaces of flows, identity, resistance, environmental movements Week 6 March 31-M.Heidegger - Question concerning technology; building, dwelling, thinking; P.Carter: Friday's Other Foot Week 7 April 7-A. Gare: Ecocide as Applied Nihilism A.Naess/S.Harding - Deep Ecology; M. Bookchin - Social Ecology; V. A. Conley Post-structuralist feminist ecology;Berg/Metzner - Bioregionalism/Ecopsychology Week 8 April 14-W.Benjamin: Naples, Moscow,Marseilles, Berlin, Paris Week 9 April 21 - Public Holiday Week 10 April 28-D.Harvey/D.Massey/M.Lee/N.Smith - place, space and power Week 11 May 5- A. Gare: Postmodernism and environmentalism Week 12 May 12- Ecocriticism & poetry; D.Head, G.Snyder Week 13 May 13 - Deleuze/Guattari - Rhizome/Geology of Morals/Three Ecologies etc
Literature
  • Benjamin, Walter: One way Street London Verso 1979
  • Guattari, Felix The Three Ecologies London Athlone Press 2000
  • Head, Dominic Problems in Ecocriticism and the Novel (in 'Keywords 1' -pub. by Nottingham Trent Univ.)
  • Snyder, Gary The Real Work New York New Directions 1980
  • Conley, Vera Ecopolitics London Routledge 1997
  • (ed.) McGuigan Jim Cultural Methodologies London Sage 1997
  • The rise of the network society. Edited by Manuel Castells. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xxix, 594. ISBN 0-631-22140-9. info
  • CASTELLS, Manuel. The power of identity. 1st pub. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, xv, 461 s. ISBN 1-55786-874-3. info
  • GARE, Arran E. Postmodernism and the environmental crisis. London: Routledge, 1995, vii, 192. ISBN 0415124794. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles and Félix GUATTARI. A thousand plateaus :capitalism and schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. London: Athlone Press, 1988, xix, 610 s. ISBN 0-485-12058-5. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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