We are excited to announce the launch of the Sustainable Futures Reading Group, led by Prof. Rodd. This engaging group invites all students and faculty at DKU to participate.
Sustainable Futures Reading Group: Extractivism, Metabolism, and Emancipation
Convener: Prof. Robin Rodd
Contact: rhr10@duke.edu
Time: Tuesdays, 3-4 PM
Room: WDR3002
Join Prof. Robin Rodd in exploring critical readings on sustainable futures. This group will delve into contemporary texts discussing alternatives to socially and environmentally unjust development practices and possibilities for creating sustainable forms of living. Participants from all academic backgrounds are welcome to join each week, regardless of their progress with the readings.
Reading Schedule:
- 10 September
Toscano, Alberto. Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum. Seagull Books.- Ch. 3 Reform, pp. 75-83
- Ch. 7 Resistance, pp. 133-142
- Ch. 11 Freedom, pp. 214-234
Romano, Onofrio. Towards a Society of Degrowth. Routledge.
- Ch. 4 Beyond the Servile: The Society of Degrowth, pp. 82-112
- 17 September
Chaudhary, Ajay Singh. The Exhausted Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Repeater Books.- Ch. 1 We’re Not in This Together, pp. 1-46
- Ch. 2 The Extractive Circuit, pp. 47-76
- Ch. 4 The Exhausted Earth, pp. 161-236
- 24 September
Malm, Andreas. The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.- Ch. 2 On Combined Development: Against Hybridism, pp. 44-77
- Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, pp. 177-231
- 8 October
Veltmeyer, Henry & Ezquerro-Cañete (eds.). From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America. Routledge.- Ch. 7 Puyana-Mutis & Rodriguez Pena, The Green Energy Transition: Expansion and Deepening of Extractivism, pp. 119-140
- Ch. 11 Barkin, Communities in Resistance: Forging a Communitarian Revolutionary Subject, pp. 203-218
- Ch. 12 Gudynas, Post-Extractivist Transitions: Concepts, Sequences, and Examples, pp. 221-240
- Ch. 15 Veltmeyer & Ezquerro-Canete, Development Beyond Extractivism: Lessons and Alternate Pathways, pp. 277-300
- 15 October
Saito, Kohei. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. Astra House - 22 October
Krause, Sharon. Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom. Princeton - 5 November
De Molina, Manuel González & Toledo, Victor M. The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change. 2nd Edition. Springer.- Ch. 3 Social Metabolism: Origins, History, Approaches, and Main Schools, pp. 47-74
- Ch. 5 The Social and Political Basis of Social Metabolism, pp. 109-134
- Ch. 6 The Basic Model, pp. 135-170
- Ch. 15 Epilogue: Metabolisms, Entropy, and Sustainable Society, pp. 407-425
- 12 November
Rozzi, R. et al. From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation. Springer.- Ch. 1 A Conceptual Framework for Reorienting Society Toward Sustainability, pp. 1-17
- Ch. 2 Biocultural Homogenization: A Wicked Problem in the Anthropocene, pp. 21-45
- Ch. 19 Biocultural Conservation and Biocultural Ethics, pp. 303-314
- Ch. 20 The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and the Biocultural Heritage Lacuna, pp. 315-331
- 19 November
Grove, Jairus. Savage Ecology: War and Politics at the End of the World. Duke.- Ch. 2 War as a Form of Life, pp. 59-77
- Ch. 7 Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization, pp. 191-225
- Conclusion, Ratio Feritas: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms of Life, pp. 273-284
- 3 December
Kaufman, Craig & Martin, Pamela. The Politics of the Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future. MIT Press.- Ch. 1-3, pp. 1-77
- Conclusions: Earth Jurisprudence for a Sustainable Future for All, pp. 211-234
Krenak, Ailton. Ancestral Future. Polity.
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