Russian and Eurasian Environments: Voices from the Anthropocene

This seminar traces and examines the network of disparate stories that coalesce around the human-nonhuman-environment nexus in Russia and Eurasia. By employing the methodology of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, we engage with energy, deep time, animal studies, food and agriculture, water and climate change, toxicity and the post-apocalyptic, to reveal the enmeshment of human life and activity with the physical environment, value systems, global logistics, and the distribution of knowledge. We revisit notions of narrative time, space, and agency in the Anthropocene. Readings in English.