WMG04301 Environmental Anthropology

広島大学シラバス

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年度 2025年度開講部局人間社会科学研究科博士課程前期人文社会科学専攻国際平和共生プログラム

講義コード WMG04301 科目区分専門的教育科目

授業科目名 Environmental Anthropology

授業科目名
（フリガナ）

英文授業科目名 Environmental Anthropology

担当教員名吉田　真理子

担当教員名
(フリガナ) ヨシダ　マリコ

開講キャンパス東広島開設期 1年次生前期１ターム

曜日・時限・講義室 (1T) 月1-4：国際206号

授業の方法講義授業の方法
【詳細情報】対面

講義中心、演習中心、板書多用、ディスカッション、学生の発表、野外実習、作業、薬品使用

単位 2.0 週時間 4 使用言語 E : 英語

学習の段階 6 : 大学院専門的レベル

学問分野（分野） 23 : 人文学

学問分野（分科） 11 : 文化人類学

対象学生

授業のキーワード environmental anthropology, political ecology, conservation, extractivism, nature-culture relations

教職専門科目　教科専門科目　

プログラムの中での
この授業科目の位置づけ
（学部生対象科目のみ）
到達度評価
の評価項目
（学部生対象科目のみ）

授業の目標・概要等 [Course Description]
Environmental Anthropology explores the complex relationships between human societies and their environments. Using
anthropological theories, methods, and case studies, students examine topics such as ecological disruption, conservation,
governmentality, more-than-human cosmopolitics, toxicity, and environmental justice. Each week focuses on a major
theme in environmental anthropology, drawing from diverse readings and online resources. Lectures provide context and
clarify key concepts, while student-led discussions encourage active engagement. Designed for advanced graduate
students, particularly those researching environmental conservation and knowledge practices, this course introduces
interdisciplinary approaches from political ecology and environmental anthropology to analyze the political, economic,
material, and social forces shaping environmental degradation and transformation in uncertain times.
[Expected Outcome]
- Gain a comprehensive understanding the field of environmental anthropology, recognizing their theoretical and
methodological strengths and limitations within socio-historical contexts.
- Critically analyze and articulate key debates at the intersection of environmental anthropology, political ecology,
multispecies ethnography, and more-than-human geography, linking theoretical discussions to assess ecological
precariousness and ecological challenges within historical, geographical, and cultural frameworks.
- Develop and present thoughtful critiques and reflections on class topics and peers’ analyses.
- Examine the complexities of urban environments, interspecies labor, biotic materiality, sociopolitical processes of
resource depletion, multispecies justice, environmental governance, and local and Indigenous responses to pollution and
toxicity in the Anthropocene (or Capitalocene).
- Analyze the socio-political and historical processes that shape environmental racism, focusing on the concept of
intersectionality.

授業計画 Week 1 (April 14) Course Introduction
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the Course Outline, Requirements, and Expectations; the Fundamental
Philosophical Orientations in the Environmental Anthropology.
Vaughn, Sarah E., Bridget Guarasci, and Amelia Moore. 2021. “Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and
Environment.” Annual Review of Anthropology 50: 275‒90.
Week 2 (April 21) Governmentality and Conservation
Agrawal, Arun. 2005.“Environmentality: Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of Environmental Subjects in
Kumaon, India.” Current Anthropology 46 (2): 161-190.
Aini, John, West, Paige, Amepou, Yolarnie, Piskaut, Michael Ladi, Gasot, Cornelius, James, Rachel S., Roberts, Jason
Steadman, Nason, Patrick, and Brachey, Anna Elyse. 2023. "Reimagining Conservation Practice: Indigenous Self-
Determination and Collaboration in Papua New Guinea." Oryx 57 (3): 350-359.
Week 3 (April 28) Nature, Culture, and Power
Strathern, Marilyn. 1981. “No Nature, No Culture: The Hagen Case.” In Nature, Culture, and Gender, edited by Marilyn
Strathern and C. MacCormack, 174‒222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moore, Donald S., Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek. 2003. “Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature.” In
Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, and Anand Pandian, eds. Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press. pp. 1-70.
Week 4 (May 7) Extractivism, Dispossession and Violence
Jacka, Jerry K. 2018.“The Anthropology of Mining: The Social and Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction in the
Mineral Age.” Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 61-77.
Hughes, Sara Salazar, Velednitsky, Stepha, & Green, Amelia Arden. 2022. "Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler
Colonialism and Environmental Injustice in the Age of Climate Catastrophe." Environment and Planning E 6(1): 495-513.
Week 5 (May 12) Toxic Worlding
Nading, Alex M. 2020. "Living in a Toxic World." Annual Review of Anthropology 49: 209-224.
Liboiron, Max, Manuel Tironi, and Nerea Calvillo. 2018.“Toxic Politics: Acting in a Permanently Polluted World.” Social
Studies of Science 48 (3): 331-349.
Week 6 (May 19) More-than-human Cosmopolitics
De Wolff, Kim. 2017. “Plastic Naturecultures: Multispecies Ethnography and the Dangers of Separating
Living from Nonliving Bodies.” Body & Society 23 (3): 23-47.
Govindrajan, Radhika. 2022. "Spectral Justice." In The Promise of Multispecies Justice, ed. Sophia Chao, Karen Bolender,
and Eban Kirksey, 186‒205. Durham: Duke University Press.
Week 7 (May 26) Infrastructure and Environmental Justice
Cowen, Deborah. 2023. "Law as Infrastructure of Colonial Space: Sketches from Turtle Island," AJIL Unbound 117: 5-10.
Appel, Hannah, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta. 2018.“Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of
Infrastructure.” In The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, 1-38. Durham:
Duke University Press.
Week 8 (June 2) Ecologies of Migration and Race
Stoetzer, Bettina. 2018. “Ruderal Ecologies: Rethinking Nature, Migration, and the Urban Landscape in Berlin.” Cultural
Anthropology 33 (2): 295-323.
Shinozuka, Jeannie N. and Rohan Deb Roy. 2024. “White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers.” Isis 115 (1): 131
-135.

教科書・参考書等 Details will be announced during the introductory session.

授業で使用する
メディア・機器等テキスト, 配付資料, 音声教材

【詳細情報】 Discussions, Fieldwork / Survey

授業で取り入れる
学習手法

予習・復習への
アドバイス [Student Responsibilities]
1. Come to class on time, prepared to engage the readings carefully and collegially.
2. Turn in assignments when they are due. You are responsible for all materials and announcements presented in class,
regardless of your attendance.
3. Short reading response papers (approx. 450-500 words, 2 double-spaced pages)
Your responses should showcase a thorough understanding of the assigned texts but avoid treating them merely as
summaries. Instead, use this opportunity to initiate the formulation of meaningful questions about the readings and connect
them to our ongoing discussions.
4. 20-minute presentation
Present inquiries related to the readings assigned for your designated week. When attending our first class, please indicate
your top preference for the week you wish to present.
5. 45-minute class discussion

履修上の注意
受講条件等

成績評価の基準等 Major assignments and their percentage of student grades are as follows:
Response papers:　40%
Attendance and participation: 　30%
Commentary/discussion leader:　30%

実務経験

実務経験の概要と
それに基づく授業内容

メッセージ

その他 [Commitment to Diversity and Respect]
Diversity is fundamental to a liberal education, and I am committed to fostering an inclusive classroom where everyone at
Sophia feels valued, respected, and safe. If you go by a name or pronoun different from what appears on the official course
roster, please feel free to let me know. Discrimination in any form̶whether based on sex, race, class, gender, sexual
orientation, ability, or religion̶will not be tolerated.

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年度	2025年度	開講部局	人間社会科学研究科博士課程前期人文社会科学専攻国際平和共生プログラム
講義コード	WMG04301	科目区分	専門的教育科目
授業科目名	Environmental Anthropology
授業科目名（フリガナ）
英文授業科目名	Environmental Anthropology
担当教員名	吉田　真理子
担当教員名 (フリガナ)	ヨシダ　マリコ
開講キャンパス	東広島	開設期	1年次生前期１ターム
曜日・時限・講義室	(1T) 月1-4：国際206号
授業の方法	講義	授業の方法【詳細情報】	対面
講義中心、演習中心、板書多用、ディスカッション、学生の発表、野外実習、作業、薬品使用
単位	2.0	週時間	4	使用言語	E : 英語
学習の段階	6 : 大学院専門的レベル
学問分野（分野）	23 : 人文学
学問分野（分科）	11 : 文化人類学
対象学生
授業のキーワード	environmental anthropology, political ecology, conservation, extractivism, nature-culture relations
教職専門科目		教科専門科目
プログラムの中でのこの授業科目の位置づけ（学部生対象科目のみ）
到達度評価の評価項目（学部生対象科目のみ）
授業の目標・概要等	[Course Description] Environmental Anthropology explores the complex relationships between human societies and their environments. Using anthropological theories, methods, and case studies, students examine topics such as ecological disruption, conservation, governmentality, more-than-human cosmopolitics, toxicity, and environmental justice. Each week focuses on a major theme in environmental anthropology, drawing from diverse readings and online resources. Lectures provide context and clarify key concepts, while student-led discussions encourage active engagement. Designed for advanced graduate students, particularly those researching environmental conservation and knowledge practices, this course introduces interdisciplinary approaches from political ecology and environmental anthropology to analyze the political, economic, material, and social forces shaping environmental degradation and transformation in uncertain times. [Expected Outcome] - Gain a comprehensive understanding the field of environmental anthropology, recognizing their theoretical and methodological strengths and limitations within socio-historical contexts. - Critically analyze and articulate key debates at the intersection of environmental anthropology, political ecology, multispecies ethnography, and more-than-human geography, linking theoretical discussions to assess ecological precariousness and ecological challenges within historical, geographical, and cultural frameworks. - Develop and present thoughtful critiques and reflections on class topics and peers’ analyses. - Examine the complexities of urban environments, interspecies labor, biotic materiality, sociopolitical processes of resource depletion, multispecies justice, environmental governance, and local and Indigenous responses to pollution and toxicity in the Anthropocene (or Capitalocene). - Analyze the socio-political and historical processes that shape environmental racism, focusing on the concept of intersectionality.
授業計画	Week 1 (April 14) Course Introduction Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the Course Outline, Requirements, and Expectations; the Fundamental Philosophical Orientations in the Environmental Anthropology. Vaughn, Sarah E., Bridget Guarasci, and Amelia Moore. 2021. “Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment.” Annual Review of Anthropology 50: 275‒90. Week 2 (April 21) Governmentality and Conservation Agrawal, Arun. 2005.“Environmentality: Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India.” Current Anthropology 46 (2): 161-190. Aini, John, West, Paige, Amepou, Yolarnie, Piskaut, Michael Ladi, Gasot, Cornelius, James, Rachel S., Roberts, Jason Steadman, Nason, Patrick, and Brachey, Anna Elyse. 2023. "Reimagining Conservation Practice: Indigenous Self- Determination and Collaboration in Papua New Guinea." Oryx 57 (3): 350-359. Week 3 (April 28) Nature, Culture, and Power Strathern, Marilyn. 1981. “No Nature, No Culture: The Hagen Case.” In Nature, Culture, and Gender, edited by Marilyn Strathern and C. MacCormack, 174‒222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Moore, Donald S., Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek. 2003. “Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature.” In Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, and Anand Pandian, eds. Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 1-70. Week 4 (May 7) Extractivism, Dispossession and Violence Jacka, Jerry K. 2018.“The Anthropology of Mining: The Social and Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction in the Mineral Age.” Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 61-77. Hughes, Sara Salazar, Velednitsky, Stepha, & Green, Amelia Arden. 2022. "Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Injustice in the Age of Climate Catastrophe." Environment and Planning E 6(1): 495-513. Week 5 (May 12) Toxic Worlding Nading, Alex M. 2020. "Living in a Toxic World." Annual Review of Anthropology 49: 209-224. Liboiron, Max, Manuel Tironi, and Nerea Calvillo. 2018.“Toxic Politics: Acting in a Permanently Polluted World.” Social Studies of Science 48 (3): 331-349. Week 6 (May 19) More-than-human Cosmopolitics De Wolff, Kim. 2017. “Plastic Naturecultures: Multispecies Ethnography and the Dangers of Separating Living from Nonliving Bodies.” Body & Society 23 (3): 23-47. Govindrajan, Radhika. 2022. "Spectral Justice." In The Promise of Multispecies Justice, ed. Sophia Chao, Karen Bolender, and Eban Kirksey, 186‒205. Durham: Duke University Press. Week 7 (May 26) Infrastructure and Environmental Justice Cowen, Deborah. 2023. "Law as Infrastructure of Colonial Space: Sketches from Turtle Island," AJIL Unbound 117: 5-10. Appel, Hannah, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta. 2018.“Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure.” In The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, 1-38. Durham: Duke University Press. Week 8 (June 2) Ecologies of Migration and Race Stoetzer, Bettina. 2018. “Ruderal Ecologies: Rethinking Nature, Migration, and the Urban Landscape in Berlin.” Cultural Anthropology 33 (2): 295-323. Shinozuka, Jeannie N. and Rohan Deb Roy. 2024. “White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers.” Isis 115 (1): 131 -135.
教科書・参考書等	Details will be announced during the introductory session.
授業で使用するメディア・機器等	テキスト, 配付資料, 音声教材
【詳細情報】	Discussions, Fieldwork / Survey
授業で取り入れる学習手法
予習・復習へのアドバイス	[Student Responsibilities] 1. Come to class on time, prepared to engage the readings carefully and collegially. 2. Turn in assignments when they are due. You are responsible for all materials and announcements presented in class, regardless of your attendance. 3. Short reading response papers (approx. 450-500 words, 2 double-spaced pages) Your responses should showcase a thorough understanding of the assigned texts but avoid treating them merely as summaries. Instead, use this opportunity to initiate the formulation of meaningful questions about the readings and connect them to our ongoing discussions. 4. 20-minute presentation Present inquiries related to the readings assigned for your designated week. When attending our first class, please indicate your top preference for the week you wish to present. 5. 45-minute class discussion
履修上の注意受講条件等
成績評価の基準等	Major assignments and their percentage of student grades are as follows: Response papers:　40% Attendance and participation: 　30% Commentary/discussion leader:　30%
実務経験
実務経験の概要とそれに基づく授業内容
メッセージ
その他	[Commitment to Diversity and Respect] Diversity is fundamental to a liberal education, and I am committed to fostering an inclusive classroom where everyone at Sophia feels valued, respected, and safe. If you go by a name or pronoun different from what appears on the official course roster, please feel free to let me know. Discrimination in any form̶whether based on sex, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, or religion̶will not be tolerated.
すべての授業科目において，授業改善アンケートを実施していますので，回答に協力してください。回答に対しては教員からコメントを入力しており，今後の改善につなげていきます。

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