POL343 More than Human Politics
Semester: 2 (15 credits)
Assessment:
1 40%, Reflection Log (1500 words), 2 60% Research Paper (2500 words)
Convenor: Dr Giulia Carabelli and Dr Joanne Yao
The
module introduces students to more than human politics at an advanced UG level.
We look at different scales of politics from the personal to the
global/planetary to explore human and nonhuman entanglements. Specifically, we
discuss the roles of nonhuman actors in scholarly and activist debates about
advanced capitalism, histories of colonialisms, gender and racialised
hierarchies to reflect on the possibility of growing liveable worlds.
As part of this module, students grow plants on
campus with the aim to reflect on their personal experience of human/ nonhuman
entanglements and to appreciate the links between everyday practice and theory.
Together we interrogate the roles of nonhuman agents in world-making and the
future.
