“Just Politics” Book & GIVEAWAY

The “Just Politics? Ökokritische Perspektiven im Postkolonialen Raum” book has just been published (in German)!!

If you want a free copy, please leave us a comment on Facebook until Tuesday, March 25th, midnight.
We will announce the lucky winner on Wednesday (on Facebook).

In case you don’t win, you can purchase the book here:
http://www.unrast-verlag.de/neuerscheinungen/just-politics-detail

Here’s the content of the book:

 

Vorwort der Herausgeber_innen

Einleitung

1. Nicole Waller: Common Ground? Neue Debatten über die Verbindungen zwischen Postkolonialismus und Ökokritik

Postkoloniale (Un)gerechtigkeiten

2. Melissa Kennedy: Ökonomische Ungleichheiten im postkolonialen Slum

3. Pavan Malreddy: Nekro-Nationalismus: Die Naxalit_innen-Aufstände in Indien

4. Andreas Siemoneit: Grünes Wachstum – Chance für die Länder des Südens?

5. Stephanie Bender: Filmische Einblicke in globale Ungerechtigkeiten: Wie der Kapitalismus die Kolonien übernahm

6. Priya Chandran: Die politische Ökologie von Landrechten: Den Kampf von Dalits und Adivasis für Land und Ressourcen in Kerala verstehen

7. Duskin Drum: Hört auf die Rechtsprechung der Inuit

8. Elisabeth Nechutnys und Anna von Rath: Unnatürliche Zuschreibungen und die Falle der Repräsentation

9. Ann-Katrin Voit: Zur Messbarkeit von Global Change und den wesentlichen Problematiken der Ungleichverteilung

Von Menschen und anderen Tieren

10. Roman Bartosch: Das postkoloniale Tier zwischen den Zeilen der Weltliteratur

11. Weeraya Donsomsakulkij: Wenn der Wal antwortet: Ein »kultureller« Dialog zwischen den Arten in Zakes Mdas Der Walrufer

12. Justyna Poray-Wybranowska: Die Ethik ästhetischer Darstellung: Ausgestellte Tierkörper im »Museum der letzten Reisen«

13. Dibyakusum Ray: Universalität, Singularität, Widerstand: Tiere in Nabarun Bhattacharyas Werken

14. Amir Susic: Studenten_innen, Ethik und Tiere in Coetzees Schande: Was bedeutet es, die Abwesenheit der Dinge an einer vermarktwirtschaftlichen Universität zu fühlen?

Ökokritik in Literatur und Praxis

15. Martin Brück: Can we teach being green? Perspektiven für eine Didaktik des Ecocriticism im schulischen Englischunterricht

16. Christopher Downing: Die Wiederbelebung der kritischen Utopie

17. Gurpreet Kaur: Sohaila Abdulalis Die Verrückte aus Jogare: Eine postkoloniale ökofeministische Analyse

18. Ivaylo Shmilev: Umweltimaginationen und ökologische Erzählungen in englischsprachigen Science-Fiction-Werken aus zeitgenössischen Medienkulturen außerhalb des UK und der USA

19. Kay Sturzwage: Aldo Leopold: Entwicklung einer Ethik der Nachhaltigkeit

 

Also, once again many thanks to all wonderful contributors – authors, translators, the coordinator of the translations, the cover photographer – and Unrast!

Just Politics? Ökokritische Perspektiven im Postkolonialen Raum

Okay folks, it’s a new year and we have some news for you:

Just Politics? Book Cover

Unrast Verlag will publish a collection of essays written by participants and lecturers of last year’s summer school.

You can expect a variety of interesting contributions concerning Postcolonial (In)Justice, essays about human and non-human animals, as well as articles on ecocriticism in literature and practice. (All in German…)

The beautiful cover picture is a contribution of the skilled photographer Miriam Redzewsky.

Just Politics Anthology

Hi all,

thanks again for the wonderful week!

We had a couple of days to rest but are now back to work: the Just Politics? Anthology is in the making. Some of the lecturers and participants will contribute very interesting articles and the book will be available in spring 2014.

Our publisher is Unrast Verlag.

So… stay tuned!

 

 

Public Events

Hi all,

we are happy to announce that various events of our summer school will be open for a public audience:

Morning lectures – University of Potsdam, Room 1.09.1.12

Mon., Sep. 2, 9-11am: “Common Grounds? Recent Debates on the Interconnections Between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism,” Nicole Waller, University of Potsdam

Mon., Sep. 2, 11:15am-1pm: “Uneven Ecologies: Commodity Frontiers, Boom Towns, and Peripheral Aesthetics,” Michael Niblett, Warwick University

Tue., Sep. 3, 9:30-11am: “Containing Oil: The Pipeline in World Petroculture”, Greame MacDonald, Warwick University

Thur., Sep. 5, 9:30-11am: “From Rubbish to Dumps: The Environment of Economic Inequality from Slums to State Housing,” Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna

Fri., Sep. 6, 9:30-11am: “The Cultural Politics of Prevention: Postcolonial Disaster and the Environmental Humanities” — Anthony Carrigan, Keele University

 

Evening Events

Tue., Sep. 3, 7-9pm: Reading with Helon Habila (FH Potsdam)

Wed., Sep. 4, 8-10pm: Panel with Andreas Siemoneit, Wachstumswende e.V., and Uwe Lübbermann, Premium Cola (Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin)

Thur., Sep. 5, 7-9pm: Film Screening “Trouble-time in Heiligendamm” (Thalia Kino, Potsdam)

New Deadline for Applications!

As the summer starts to heat up here in Potsdam, so has interest in the summer school. 

But don’t worry! There’s still time to apply. 

We are announcing a new deadline in order to give all those who are interested a chance to apply! 

The new deadline for applications is July 15, 2013.

 

We are also excited to announce that for those foreign students who have previously received funding through the DAAD, there are possibilities for funding for the summer school through the DAAD alumni program. Please contact us for further information.

Deadline for Applications Extended!

Haven’t applied yet?

Don’t fret – we have extended the deadline – which gives you another whole month to send in your applications to justpolitics2013@gmail.com

NEW DEADLINE: JULY 15TH.

And to those of you who have already applied, we will contact you within the next two weeks with further details.

We can’t wait to meet all of you!

Just Politics?

Just Politics? – Postcolonial Ecocriticism between Imagination and Occupation

11th ASNEL Summer School at the University of Potsdam

2-6 September 2013