Settler and Native Ecologies of Power in North America
AMST 352
Spring 2025
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01
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This course examines how settler colonial dis/possession, resource extraction, and spatial domination have generated ecological catastrophes in North America while at the same time shaping discourses of environmental "protection" and "preservation." Reading the work of historians, anthropologists, critical theorists, knowledge-keepers, and activists and examining sites such as national parks and infrastructure projects in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, we will learn how efforts to define, manage, regulate, and exploit "natural" resources occur/red simultaneously with assaults on Native nations' sovereignty. We will explore how Indigenous people(s), in spite of continuous settler state violence and violations, have cared for and defended their lands and human and nonhuman relatives, drawing from a wealth of traditional knowledges and tribal political practices. We will end the course by bringing these critiques to current "environmental issues" such as wildfires, toxic contamination, and pipelines. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST)(HRAD-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sample texts may include:
Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
M. Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California¿s Natural Resources
Hi¿ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Traci Brynne Voyles, The Settler Sea: California¿s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
Joshua Reid, The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
Nick Estes, Our History is the Future
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Examinations and Assignments:
class participation; final paper/project and presentation |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
N/A |
| Instructor(s): Woodsum,Antonina Griecci Times: ...W... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 15 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
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