ANTROPOLOGIA DEL MONDO CONTEMPORANEO

The aims of theaching are oriented to:

1. a recognizement of alterity, relationality and sociality which define the anthropological study of human living;
2. observing and understanding the policies, practices and imaginaries which sustain and criticize the energetic transition

Speech

The grounding of teaching to address the students to study of perspective of world anthropology of Joao de Pina-Cabral. An anthropological perspective focused to questioning the ways through the individual-person go in relation with Others and the World (alterity, relationality, sociality), in which the alterity dimension is not thinking as exterior (the representations of others) but as anterior.

In the contemporary climate changes epoch (Anthropocene) the course focus about the power relation about the politics (local and global), social-technological practices and social-environmental future imaginaries through which in the landscapes buildings the ecological and energetic transition.

Core course

Texts:

• J. de Pina-Cabral, Mondo. Una riflessione antropologica, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021.

In depth

Texts:

• T. Loloum, S. Abram, N. Ortar, Ethnographies of power. A poilitical Anthropology of Energy, London-New York, Berghahn Books, 2021.
• Energy, Resource Extraction and Society. Impacts and Contested Futures, ed. A. Szoloucha, New York, Routledge, 2018.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.