"Transcending Whiteness: Nature and the Moral Imaginary""Transcending Whiteness: Nature and the Moral Imaginary"http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/123542Gest Center 1012010-02-09T16:30:002010-02-09T18:30:00
February 9, 4:30PM
Gest Center 101
A talk by Yuka Suzuki
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Prof. Yuka Suzuki will be giving a talk entitled "Transcending Whiteness: Nature and the Moral Imaginary." Prof. Suzuki received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Yale University. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. She currently is a postdoctoral Fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. Her book manuscript Nature Conquest and White Imperial Debris centers on tansformations in the symbolic and material economy of wildlife in Western Zimbabwe. Her fieldwork has focused on a community of white settler farmers who ranch wildlife and explores how the dynamics of race have shaped debates about wildlife politics at specific politically charged moments. In linking the sociality of wildlife, space, racial politics, nationhood, and the symbolic logic of daily life, Suzuki posits new directions in anthropology of the environment. Recently she has begun researching the production of knowledge about nature at the Bronx Zoo. She is ethnographically linking the spatial orientation of the zoo-both its ordering of animals and humans-to ideas about the scarcity of wild places in the world and urbanization. Suzuki is an award-winning teacher who teaches courses across an array of areas. She has been instrumental in developing environmental studies at Bard College. She has also taught classes such as Japanimation on Japanese animation, Cultural Politics of Animals, and Environment, Development, and Power.
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