Syllabus
* Day 1:
Required reading:
Moore, J. W. (2023): Our Capitalogenic World: Climate Crises, Class Politics, and the Civilizing Project. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 11, 97-122.
Hirsch, S. L., Ribes, D., & Inman, S. (2022): Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research. Social Studies of Science, 52(4), 561-580.
Optional reading:
Markham, A.N. (2013): Undermining ‘data’: A critical examination of a core term in scientific inquiry. First Monday, 18 (10); URL: click here
* Day 2
Required reading:
Law, J. (2002): Objects. In: ibid., Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience, London and Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 12-37.
Myers, G. (1990): Controversies about Scientific Texts (Chapter 1). In: ibid., Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. London and Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 3-40.
Optional reading:
Ginzburg, C. (1992): Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm. In: ibid., Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 96-125.
* Day 3
Required reading:
Latour, B. (1993): Pasteur on Lactic Acid Yeast: A Partial Semiotic Analysis. Configurations, 1(1), pp. 129-146.
Selected readings:
Ballestero, A. & Winthereik, B.R. (eds., 2021): Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis. Durham, London: Duke University Press. URL:
* Day 4
Selected readings:
Becker, H.S. (2007): Telling About Society. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press.
Annotation
This course is designed as a research-oriented reading exercise where we engage with selected texts from the environmental sciences as empirical material. It is interdisciplinary in its general orientation and should provide participants with skills in reading and working in inter- and transdisciplinary fields. It introduces to literature from
Science and Technology Studies (STS), environmental sociology, ethnographic and ethnomethodological approaches, and studies on interdisciplinarity.