Vorlesungsverzeichnis
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Veranstaltungen von Dr. Chiara Stefanoni
Lehrveranstaltungen
Ecofeminism and Queer Ecology (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 14.102 a Seminarraum
Inhalt: "Mother nature," "stepmother" nature, virgin earth, mother earth, inert matter..in different societies and cultures we find that conceptualizations of nature are gendered and that a connection between nature and women is established. Typically this connection revolves around the topic of reproduction and generativity. Thus, it is crucial to address the complex ways in which the triad of nature, gender, and sexuality unfolds. In particular, what happens when we address this issue in times of ecological crisis and exploitation of nature? It is not by chance that Françoise d’Eaubonne’s 1974 inaugural book of ecofeminism, Le féminisme ou la mort, has been translated into English for the first time in 2020 amid lockdown. The contemporary ecological crisis has once again brought the issue of nature and its domination to the center of debate. Ecofeminism has been the first activist movement and theoretical stream to reflect on environmental degradation as fundamentally linked to gender oppression and to claim the necessity of ecologism within feminism and feminism within ecologism. Ecofeminists not only diagnose problems and their causes but also try to think of possible solutions and alternatives. In this seminar, we will first introduce the main tenets of ecofeminism and follow a trajectory from seminal works to subsequent elaborations. In particular, we will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different ecofeminist proposals. One important question will be around "essentialism" (Are women essentially "closer to nature"? Who is a woman?) and heteronormative assumptions around reproduction. Thus we will follow a trajectory that will lead us from queer ecofeminism to queer ecologies. In this last section, we will explore and map out queer ecology’s major concerns in relation to various threads of scholarly inquiry along which this field has emerged – such as critical animal studies and posthumanism.
Animals and Technology (FSL) (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 14:15 - 15:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 7.019 Seminarraum
Inhalt: In Western tradition, technique, technology, or the use of tools are usually considered to be the prerogative of humans, in their distinction from animals. Moreover, the domestication and breeding of humans and their technological use in agriculture, transport, sacrifices, etc. represents one of the earliest chapters in the history of technology. Still today animals are oppressed, controlled, and transformed through technology. Biotechnology and genome editing, for example, offer strategies to enhance animal performance. The course aims to problematize the relationship between technology and animals (and humans) by adopting, first, a perspective attentive to the most recent ethological acquisitions to challenge human exceptionalism and, second, a critical reading of the human-animal-machine triad to try to answer the fundamental question: is technology only an instrument of oppression for animals or can it have a liberating potential and be a vehicle for their better treatment and true multispecies cohabitation?
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On Violence: Theories and Problems (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Lorenzo Mizzau, Chiara Stefanoni
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 5.325 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Nowadays, the world is rifled with political violence of all sorts: wars, state violence, uprisings, guerrillas, genocides, tortures, mass shootings, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, exterminations, terrorism, as well as gender and racial violence. However, there is little theoretical engagement with the issue outside the mainstream of liberal political theory and even less practical engagement with it in our "pacified democracies". In this seminar, we will draw a trajectory relying mostly on classic and recent texts to answer the following questions: what is political violence? What are the relations between violence, law, and political institutions? And what about revolutionary violence? Is violence inherent to change? Why does there seem to be a strong connection between violence, myth, and religion? Is non-violence an alternative? What is the relation between violence and capitalism? And what about ethics? In particular, we will mainly focus on the theory of the victimage sacrifice in René Girard, Freud's theorization of the death drive, Marx's analysis of the "gewalt", Sorel's Reflections on Violence, Benjamin's Critique of Violence, contemporary theories of insurrections and civil war by anarchist collective "invisible committee" and Butler's recent reflections on non-violence.