064-0018-23L Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
| Semester | Frühjahrssemester 2023 |
| Dozierende | F. Persyn, T. Avermaete, T. Galí-Izard, H. Klumpner, C. Schmid |
| Periodizität | jedes Semester wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. | ||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Anthropocene has emerged as a contested yet transdisciplinary term to describe the planetary condition under climate change and environmental catastrophe. While being attendant to its critiques, the Anthropocene discourse provides researchers from critical landscape and urban research to engage with a diversity of fields such as earth sciences, art, environmental humanities, agrarian, literary, and cultural studies. This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. A number of invited guests working at the forefronts of Anthropocene research will bring seminar participants into their research and writing process. Additionally, the seminar will offer a number of hands-on critical writing and peer-review sessions to help the seminar participants develop and work with the allegories of the Anthropocene. Typically, the seminar sessions will alternate between inputs by invited guests, reading and discussion sessions, tutorials, and peer-review. The invited guests will provide a behind-the-scenes look into their writing process, including how they structure their arguments, organise their sources and materials, and find inspiration in their writing process. During the first half of the tutorial sessions, the seminar participants will discuss and debate a requisite reading followed by a writing tutorial and feedback session based on the texts. The seminar participants can choose to present the work developed during the seminar at the LUS Doctoral Crits organised at the end of the semester. | ||||||||||||
| Inhalt | The seminar would be organised the following sessions and will culminate with LUS Doctoral Crits organised at the end of the semester: 24.02 Introduction – Writing in the Anthropocene - Nitin Bathla 03.03 Botanical City - Sandra Jasper 10.03 Histories of Settlement workshop - Hollyamber Kennedy & Anooradha Siddiqi 17.03 Landscapes in deep time: Nuclear Waste and the Swiss Alps - Rony Emmenegger 31.03 Landscapes of the empire - Hollyamber Kennedy 21.04 Territories of Swiss Colonialism - Denise Bertschi 28.04 A guided walk through the multispecies landscape of Zurich- Flurina Gardin 05.05 Geological Filmmaking - Laura Coppens 12.05 Landscapes of fossil capitalism - Giulia Scotto 19.05 LUS Doctoral Crits | ||||||||||||
| Literatur | Voie, Christian Hummelsund. "Nature writing in the Anthropocene." In Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication, pp. 199-210. Routledge, 2019. Boes, Tobias, and Kate Marshall. "Writing the AnthropoceneAn Introduction." the minnesota review 2014, no. 83 (2014): 60-72. Gandy, Matthew, and Sandra Jasper, eds. The botanical city. Jovis Berlin, 2020. Kennedy, Hollyamber. "Infrastructures of “legitimate violence”: The Prussian Settlement Commission, internal colonization, and the migrant remainder." Grey Room 76 (2019): 58-97. Emmenegger, Rony. "Deep Time Horizons: Vincent Ialenti’s Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press." Anthropocenes–Human, Inhuman, Posthuman 2, no. 1 (2021). Grommen, Ciel, Denise Bertschi, Tali Serruya, Karim Bel Kacem, Carol Joo Lee, Yeji Lee, and Seyoung Yoon. "Territories of Assembly." In Artsonje Art Centre, Seoul. 2014. Litvintseva, S., 2018. Geological Filmmaking: Seeing Geology Through Film and Film Through Geology. Transformations. Scotto, Giulia. "Between Visible and Invisible: ENI and the Building of the African Petroleumscape." In Oil Spaces, pp. 84-108. Routledge, 2021. | ||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The seminar is jointly organized by the coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies, and the I-LUS faculty. The seminar is open to all researchers working at the urban landscape and territorial scale regardless of where they might be in their research provided they are in the process of developing a work of academic writing such as research plan, an article, or a design manifesto. | ||||||||||||
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