Seminar: BA: Engaging the Chemical World - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: BA: Engaging the Chemical World
Course number	BA_LHGZ
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	32
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Thursday, 22.05.2025 14:15 - 15:45, Room: Seminarraum Ethnologie
Learning organisation	Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.
Performance record	Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
SWS	2

Lecturers

• Dr. Rishabh Raghavan

Rooms and times

Seminarraum Ethnologie

Thursday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly (13x)

Fields of study

• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies) > Faculty of Philosophy I
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Bachelor Ethnologie 60/90

Module assignments

• Ethnologie Ethnologie60, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Wahlpflichtbereich > PHI.07683.01 - Lokales Handeln in Globalen Zusammenhängen (LHGZ) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 3: Course (Seminar oder Übung)
• Ethnologie Ethnologie90, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Wahlpflichtmodule > PHI.07683.01 - Lokales Handeln in Globalen Zusammenhängen (LHGZ) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 3: Course (Seminar oder Übung)
• Ethnologie Ethnologie90, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Wahlpflichtbereich ohne Bachelorarbeit im Fach Ethnologie > PHI.07683.01 - Lokales Handeln in Globalen Zusammenhängen (LHGZ) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 3: Course (Seminar oder Übung)

Comment/Description

This course takes students through an overview of the anthropology of pollution, toxicity and chemical relations. It presents research over the years that have all probed questions about chemical toxicity and pollution, spiralling in directions that have influenced environmental justice movements, queer studies as well as labour and health reform. The course is designed around a set of key questions and challenges in the anthropological study of toxicity, pollution and chemical relations. Its purpose is not only to provide a survey of the field, but rather also introduce students to a set of questions and analytic tools and invite them to quickly move towards applying them to real-world cases.