Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination

Required readings:

Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (London: Athlone Press, 2000)
Malcolm Ferdinand, “Prologue: A Colonial and Environmental Double Fracture” In Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022)
Stacy Alaimo, “Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea” (Chapter 5 in her monograph Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times, University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Astrida Neimanis, ‘Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water,’ in Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck (eds.) Undutiful Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Bruno Latour, ‘Extending the Domain of Freedom, or Why Gaia Is So Hard to Understand’ with Timothy Lenton, Critical Inquiry, 2018

Danielle Celermajer, “On the Prevention of Everyday Torture: An Ecological Approach” ABC Religion & Ethics, Online: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/on-the-prevention-of-everyday-torture-an-ecological-approach/10094734
Shela Sheikh, “Violence”, In: Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, eds. The Posthuman Glossary (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 448–452
Claudia Brunner, “Un/Doing Epistemic Violence while Trying to Change the World” Journal für Entwicklungspolitik XXXIX, ½ (2023): 5–29
Vandana Shiva, “Reductionist Science as Epistemological Violence” In: A. Nandy (Ed.), Science, Hegemony and Violence. A Requiem for Modernity (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990), pp. 232–256 https://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu05se/uu05se0i.htm
Rob Nixon, ‘Introduction’, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2011)
Johan Galtung, “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research,” Journal of Peace Research 6:3 (1969)

David Zierler, “Introduction” The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists who Changed the Way we Think about the Environment (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011)
Richard Falk, ‘Environmental Warfare and Ecocide: Facts, Appraisals, and Proposals,’ Bulletin of Peace Proposals 4:1(1973): 80-96.
Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide (2021)
Hannah Meszaros Martin “Defoliating the World: Ecocide, Visual Evidence and ‘Earthly Memory’” Third Text 32.2-3 (2018): 230-253.
Mark Griffiths & Henry Redwood, Late Modern War and the Geos, International Political Sociology (2024) 18, 1-18

Tasha Hubbard, “Buffalo Genocide in Nineteenth Century North America” in Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America, ed. by Alexander L. Hinton et al (Duke UP, 2014): 292-305.
Lauren J. Eichler, “Ecocide is Genocide: Decolonizing the Definition of Genocide” Genocide Studies and Prevention 14.2 (2020): 104-121
Shourideh C. Molavi, Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance (Pluto Press, 2024)
Christopher Powell, “What do genocides kill? A relational conception of genocide” Journal of Genocide Research 9.4 (2007): 527-547
Joseph Pugliese, “Introduction” Biopolitics of the More-than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (Duke UP, 2020): 1-37

Clara de Massol, Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Stef Craps et al. “Memory Studies and the Anthropocene – A Roundtable” Memory Studies 11.4 (2018): 498-515
Jenny Wüstenberg, “Toward Slow Memory Studies” Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, edited by Brett Kaplan (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim, “Feminist Posthumanism, Environment and “Response-Able Memory” Memory Studies Review 1 (2024): 93-111
Richard Crownshaw, “Climate Change Perpetrators: Ecocriticism, Implicated Subjects, and Anthropocene Fiction” The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies, ed Susanne C. Knittel and Zachary Goldberg (Routledge, 2019)