Books
Witoszek, Nina and Andrew Brennan: Philosophical Dialogues: Arne N?ss and the Progress of Ecophilosophy, 1999. Rowman & Littlefield. Chapter 40 (Ramachandra Guha), ch. 41 (Arne N?ss), ch. 42 (Stephan Harding), ch. 53 (Nina Witoszek), ch. 54 (Arne N?ss) and postscript (Ramachandra Guha) are required readings..
Fischer, Frank and Hajer, Maarten A: Living with Nature : Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse , 1999. New York : Oxford University Press.
Required Readings in the Compendium:
Bell, Daniel: "Technology, Nature and Society", pp. 1-33 in The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999 :
Bell, Daniel: "The Disjunction of Realms", pp. 3-35 in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Basic Books, 1996.
Crewe, Emma: "The silent traditions of developing cooks", ch 3 in Grillo, R.D. and Stirrat, R.L. Discourses of development: Anthropological perspectives. Oxford, UK: Berg 1997.
Croll and Parkin: "Anthropology, the environment and development", ch 1 in E. Croll and D. Parkin, Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. London: Routledge, 1992.
Gadgil, Madhav and M.D. Subhas Chandran: “Sacred Groves”, India International Centre Quarterly, 19 (1-2): 183-187 (Spring-Summer, 1992).
Hobart, Mark: “Introduction: The Growth of Ignorance?”, in An Anthropological Critique of Development, pp. 1-30. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Nanda, Meera: “The ecofeminst critique of the green revolution”, ch. 9 in Prophets Facing Backward, pp. 225-246. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.
Sahlins, Marshall: “Two or three things that I know about culture”. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5 (3): 399-421.
Schama, Simon: "Blood in the Forest", pp. 81-100 and 584-585 in : Landscape and Memory, 1995. Harper Collins Publisher.
Witoszek, Nina: "The Unromantic Romantics", pp. 209-227 in M. Teich and Roy Porter: Nature and Society in Historical Context. 1997. Cambridge University Press.
NB! The remaining texts in the compentium are optional readings.
Last references from Martin and Kenneth
Abram, David. 1996. The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Vintage Books.
Schech, Susanna and Jane Haggis. 2000. Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Required readings available on internet:
White, Lynn Jr.: The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, pp. 1203-1207 in: Science, 155, 1967.
Shiva, Vandana: “Poverty and Globalisation”. BBC Reith Lectures, 2000.
Huntington, Samuel: The Clash of Civilizations, pp.-22-28 in: Foreign Affairs, 72, 1993
Fukuyama, Francis: “The end of History”, pp. 3-18 in: The National Interest, Summer 1989
Klein, Naomi: “Reclaiming the Commons”, pp. 81-89 in: The New Left Review, 9, 2001
Hardin, Garrett: The Tragedy of the Commons, pp. 1243-1248 in: Science, 162, 1968
Deb, Debal: “The Role of Religious Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation in India”. 2006
Brundtland Commission: “Our Common Future, Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development”, 1987
Additional required readings to be handed out:
Frazer, J. G. 2002. The golden bough : a study in religion and magic. Pp. 1-8, 658 – 667 and 701-714. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications Inc.
Schama, Simon. 1995. Landscape and memory. Pp. 135-153. London, HarperCollins.
Smout, T. C. 2000. Nature contested : environmental history in Scotland and Northern England since 1600. Pp. 37-64, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.