This is the updated syllabus for the remainder of the semester.
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Part II. Cases
1. Natural Disasters
Tu 10/7/08 [mid-term questions circulated in class] Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Th 10/9/08 – No class Yom Kippur
Tu 10/14/08 [mid-term papers due at start of class – no reading response this week] Film: When the Levees Broke I
Kevin Rozario, The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Selections.
Th 10/16/08 Film: When the Levees Broke II
Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Tu 10/21/08 Film: When the Levees Broke III
Dyson, Come Hell or High Water (cont’d).
Th 10/23/08 Film: When the Levees Broke IV
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, “Pre-Katrina, Post-Katrina,” in There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge, 2006, 1-12.
Naomi Klein, “Disaster Capitalism: The New Economy of Catastrophe,” Harper’s Magazine, October 2007.
2. Food
Tu 10/28/08 [final paper annotated bibliography due at start of class] Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.
Th 10/30/08 Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, cont’d.
Tu 11/4/08 Film: The Future of Food.
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Th 11/6/08 [final paper outlines due at start of this class] Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (cont’d).
Tu 11/11/08 Temple Grandin, “A Cow’s Eye View,” in Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from my Life with Autism. New York: Vintage, 1995, pp.142-156.
Noëlie Vialles, “Flaying the Animal: The Disjunctions Involved,” in Animal to Edible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.33-52.
Th 11/13/08 Tim Pachirat visit
3. The Nuclear Option
Tu 11/18/08 Film: Atomic Cafe
Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Th 11/20/08 Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands (cont’d).
Tu 11/25/08 Valerie Kuletz, The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge, 1998. Selections.
Th 11/27/08 - Thanksgiving – no class
Tu 12/2/08 – No class, student reading week
Th 12/4/08 – No class, student reading week
Tu 12/9/08 Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Th 12/11/08 Petryna, Life Exposed (cont’d).
Tu 12/16/08 Film: TBD
Th 12/18/08 Final paper presentations.
Tu 12/23/08 [final papers due at start of this class] Review of course.
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This is the updated syllabus for the remainder of the semester.
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Part II. Cases
1. Natural Disasters
Tu 10/7/08 [mid-term questions circulated in class]
Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Th 10/9/08 – No class Yom Kippur
Tu 10/14/08 [mid-term papers due at start of class – no reading response this week]
Film: When the Levees Broke I
Kevin Rozario, The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Selections.
Th 10/16/08
Film: When the Levees Broke II
Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Tu 10/21/08 Film: When the Levees Broke III
Dyson, Come Hell or High Water (cont’d).
Th 10/23/08 Film: When the Levees Broke IV
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, “Pre-Katrina, Post-Katrina,” in There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge, 2006, 1-12.
Naomi Klein, “Disaster Capitalism: The New Economy of Catastrophe,” Harper’s Magazine, October 2007.
2. Food
Tu 10/28/08 [final paper annotated bibliography due at start of class]
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.
Th 10/30/08
Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, cont’d.
Tu 11/4/08
Film: The Future of Food.
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Th 11/6/08 [final paper outlines due at start of this class]
Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (cont’d).
Tu 11/11/08
Temple Grandin, “A Cow’s Eye View,” in Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from my Life with Autism. New York: Vintage, 1995, pp.142-156.
Noëlie Vialles, “Flaying the Animal: The Disjunctions Involved,” in Animal to Edible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.33-52.
Th 11/13/08
Tim Pachirat visit
3. The Nuclear Option
Tu 11/18/08
Film: Atomic Cafe
Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Th 11/20/08
Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands (cont’d).
Tu 11/25/08
Valerie Kuletz, The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge, 1998. Selections.
Th 11/27/08 - Thanksgiving – no class
Tu 12/2/08 – No class, student reading week
Th 12/4/08 – No class, student reading week
Tu 12/9/08
Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Th 12/11/08
Petryna, Life Exposed (cont’d).
Tu 12/16/08
Film: TBD
Th 12/18/08
Final paper presentations.
Tu 12/23/08 [final papers due at start of this class]
Review of course.
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