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Hauptseminar: Eco/Biopolitics in Transnational American Culture- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gessner
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Deutsch
Time and place: Tue 12:15 - 13:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar gehört in den folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
MA North American Studies - Culture: Modul 4, 7 MA
The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4 BA English and American Studies:
Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen.
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)
Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
MA English Studies: “Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card”.
- Contents
- This seminar explores various ways in which representations of environmental and health disasters feed into a double helix of risk (of infection and pollution) and security (sheltering the healthy body and pristine landscape). We will discuss how cultural representations and performances capitalize on the “culture of fear” (Barry Glassner) for specific political purposes and how they support or resist the ideological embeddings of biopolitical surveillance. Topics addressed in this seminar include: the 1978 Love Canal toxic waste tragedy; the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster; the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill; the ongoing Haiti cholera epidemic that began in 2010 only 10 months after an catastrophic earthquake; the nuclear disasters in Fukushima (2011), Chernobyl (1986), and Three Mile Island (1979); the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. We will pay special attention to the particular mediation of calamities in the Global South (Africa, South-East Asia) and how they meet and shape the expectations of viewers and readers in the Global North (Europe and North America).
- Recommended literature
- Course material: will be announced and partially available on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2016:
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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