a detailed syllabus will be distributed at the beginning of the semester. weekly topics include queer ecologies, ecoheteronormativity and anthropcentrism; anthropocene, plantationocene and planthropocene; extinction, petrocultures, companion species; care for the more than human world; mutltispecies resistance; indigenous analytics and epistemologies; indigenous energy futurism.

* Compulsory:

ALAIMO, S. ‘Insurgent vulnerability and the carbon footprint of gender’, Women, Gender & Research 3-4, 2009.�
HIRD, M. ‘Sex diversity in nonhuman animals’, in Sex, Gender, and Science’, Basingstoke: Palgrave: MacMillan, 2004.�
GROSZ, E., ‘Feminism and Darwin: Preliminary investigations into a possible alliance’, In Time travels: Feminism, nature, power, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.�
ROSE, D., B., ‘Death and grief in a world of kin’, in Graham Harvey (ed.) The Handbook of Contemporary Animism, pp. 137-147, London: Routledge, 2013.

* Elected:

PLUMWOOD, L. ‘Mechanism and mind/nature dualism’, in Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, New York: Routledge, 1993.�
BIRKE, L., BRYLD, M., LYKKE, N. ‘Animal performances’, Feminist Theory 5(2), 2004.�
HARAWAY, D. Sympoiesis: symbiogenesis and the lively arts to staying with the trouble in Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene, Durham, MA: Duke University Press, 2016.�
BERRINGTON, C., ‘Life cycle of a common weed’, in Eben Kirksey (Ed.) The Multispecies Salon, Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.�
TSING, A. ‘The art of noticing’, in Mushroom at the End of the World, Durham, Duke University Press, 2015.