Students are expected to write a research paper which contributes to the anthropological take on climate change. Anybody reading the essay should be able to grasp the topic as well as the class material being discussed. The connection of the topic to the class material must also be clearly presented.
1. Try to cover these questions in the essay:
a. Explain the topic in detail. How does the topic relate to climate change?
b. Why is it important to study this topic?
c. How does your topic relate to the broad theme of an ‘uncertain future’?
d. How does your research on the topic provide a way to think about uncertainty (a bleak future)?
e. What stance are you taking on the topic? (What are you arguing for?)
2. The basics of an essay should include
a. An argument or stance using data and theory
b. Material/ for the essay need to fulfil the following criteria:
i. At least 3 academic sources must be identified out of the class material.
ii. At least 3 sources from the class material should be used
iii. At least 3 non-academic sources should also be identified (policy reports, creative work, newspaper article, blog posts)
3. The essay should not be longer than 2000 words.
minimum 3 sources from the module :
• Crate, S. A., & Nuttall, M. (Eds.). (2016). Anthropology and climate change: from actions to transformations. Routledge
• Cons, J. (2018). Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands. Cultural Anthropology, 33(2), pp. 266-294.
• Barnes, J., Dove, M., Lahsen, M. et al. Contribution of anthropology to the study of climate change. Nature Climate Change 3, 541–544 (2013).
• Tacoli, C. (2009). Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility. Environment and Urbanization, 21(2),
minimum 3 of these, Here are sources the writer can use to frame the argument to Anthropology and climate change :
•Bridget, Guarasci, Amelia Moore and Sarah E. Vaughn. “Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment Sarah E. Vaughn”. Annual Review of Anthropology. 2021. 50:275–90
•O’Brien, A.J. and Elders, A. (2022), Climate anxiety. When it’s good to be worried. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 29: 387-389.
•https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2018/feb/13/why-we-need-to-rethink-climate-change-with-timothy-morton-books-podcast
•SCHNEGG, M. (2021), Ontologies of climate change. American Ethnologist, 48: 260-273.
Minimum 3 ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC SOURCES NOT FROM MODULE:
•A people-centred perspective on climate change, environmental stress, and livelihood resilience in Bangladesh Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson1,2 • Kees van der Geest1 • Istiakh Ahmed3 • Saleemul Huq3 • Koko Warner1
•Climate change perceptions and local adaptation strategies of hazard-prone rural households in Bangladesh G.M. Monirul Alam a,b,c,⇑, Khorshed Alam a, Shahbaz Mushtaq c
•Role of community based local institution for climate change adaptation in the Teesta riverine area of Bangladesh
A. Rezaul Karim a, Andreas Thiel b
•Artisan fishers’ perception of climate change and disasters in coastal Bangladesh
Zaheed Hasan & Melissa Nursey-Bray
•Community-based Disaster Management and Its Salient Features: A Policy Approach to People-centred Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
M. Abul Kalam Azad1, 2, M. Salim Uddin1,4, Sabrina Zaman2 and Mirza Ali Ashraf3
•Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment
Shaikh Mohammad Kais 1,* and Md Saidul Islam 2
*And minimum 3 NON ACADEMIC SOURCES about bangladesh and embankments .(ive provided two that may be helpful below) Frame it in anthropology and climate change way using the class material and the sources I’ve provided.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-unfolding-tragedy-of-climate-change-in-bangladesh/
https://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2019/09/10/coastal-resilience-in-bangladesh-protecting-coastal-communities-from-tidal-flooding-and-storm-surges