LATA 4334
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- Schedule of Classes - May 19, 2024 7:32PM EDT
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Classes
LATA 4334
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.
The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, film, and other expressive forms. Topics will range from historical accounts of climate as 'catastrophe' – the effects of hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes– to colonial histories of coerced labor, to climate as a more general horizon in the constitution of Caribbean worlds. The seminar draws on the work of anthropologist Anna Tsing, interpreting the industrialized-urbanized ecological territory in terms of "capitalist ruination" which, nonetheless, holds possibilities for other modes of environmentality, as the hazards effected by climate change fundamentally disrupt and transform the very urbanity constituted through colonial and later resource extractive appropriations.
When Offered Spring.
Breadth Requirement (GB)
Distribution Category (ALC-AS, CA-AS, GLC-AS)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4334, COML 6334, ENGL 3934, FREN 4334, FREN 6334, LATA 6334, ROMS 4334, ROMS 6334
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 498
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Melas, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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