Études du Commonwealth
Présentation
Commonwealth studies : Environmental practices and imaginaries
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The course looks at contrasting imaginaries and ways of inhabiting place in Australia (Aboriginal “Care for Country” vs (neo)-colonial visions “Nature”), both historically and in the context of increasing climate-related anxieties.
Suggested reading: - Ryan, Judith, Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (eds.), Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, Harvard University Press, 2004. - Huggan, Graham, Tiffin, Helen , Postcolonial Criticism: Literature, Animals, Environment, Routledge, 2015. - Relph, Edward, Place and Placelessness, Sage Publications, 2008. |
Compétences visées
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- research, understand and clearly document the ramifications of historiographical and contemporary sociological debates - learn to decode ideological constructions of place in works of fiction - polish the ability to present material to and engage with a peer audience |