Week 3
Relations people-environment-health
Recommended readings:
Blue, Gwendolyn and Rock, Melanie. 2020. Genomic trans-biopolitics: Why more-than-human geography is critical amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Dialogues in Human Geography 10(2): 287–290.
Calkins, Sandra. 2019. ‘Bananas, Humanitarian Biotech, and Human-Plant Histories in Uganda’. Medicine Anthropology Theory 6 (3): 29–53.
Further reading:
To be indicated during the lecture
Additional activity:
Reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the environment around you, and contribute these ideas to the online forum in the virtual syllabus (feel free to add links to images or other materials).
Step for the final works:
Start to think (individually or collectively if you found some colleagues with common interests) which is the best format (text, audio, video, images, etc.) to present your topic for the final presentation.