Introduction

Announcements

AS1

AS2

SP1

Assessment & Coursework

AS1 Guidance

AS2 Guidance

AS2 essay titles

AS1 - sample paper - death &amp; daal

AS1 - sample paper - hair everywhere

AS1 - sample paper - hauntings on an Arab/Jewish Plate

AS1 - sample paper - letter of appreciation to Lila

AS1 - sample paper - my grandmother the beauty queen

AS1 - sample paper - Anthropoops

Wk 1 - Introduction: Critical Life Studies

Stevenson (2015) Life Beside Itself

Fassin (2018) Life: A Critical User’s Manual - a short excerpt

Lecture 1 slides

Wk 2 - Biology

Kirksey (2021) Living Machines Go Wild

Bharadwaj (2013) Subaltern Biology?

Gilbert (2013) Re-Visioning Local Biologies

Haraway (2017) Staying with the Trouble - audio-visual lecture

Helmreich (2011) What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies

Kirksey (2018) Queer Love, Gender Bending Bacteria, and Life after the Anthropocene

Lecture 2 slides - Biology

Wk 3 - Blood

Jacobsen-Bia (2014) Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging in the Navajo

Anagnost (2006) Strange Circulations: The Blood Economy in Rural China

Copeman (2013) The Art of Bleeding: Memory, Martyrdom, and Portraits in Blood

Love in the Time of Blood Quantum - podcast by Native American women

Lukasik (2021) Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialisation of American Copts

Reddy (2008) Good Gifts for the Common Good

The Black Blood Donnor Crisis – a BBC Radio production

Wk 4 - Fertility

Schurr (2016) From Biopolitics to Bioeconomies

Deomampo (2015) Defining Parents, Making Citizens

Deomampo 2022 Purchasing Race - audio-visual

Dow (2016) What Gets Left Behind for Future Generations?

Inhorn (2006) Making Muslim Babies

Lamoreaux (2022) (In)Fertile Environments - audio/visual

Pande (2019) Visa Stamps for Injections

Roberts (2007) Extra Embryos: The Ethics of cryopreservation in Ecuador and Elsewhere

Vora (2014) Experimental Sociality and Gestational Surrogacy in the India ART Clinic

Lecture 4 slides

Wk 5 - Toxicity

Kumaki (2022) Suspending Nuclearity

Podcast - Toxicity, Disability, and the Environment - transcript included

Blanchette (2019) Living Waste and the Labor of Toxic Health on American Factory Farms

Brown (2020) Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster - Audio/Visual

Langwick (2018) A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Ntapanta (2021) ‘Lifescaping’ Toxicants: Locating and Living with E-Waste in Tanzania

Roberts (2017) What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City

Rodriguez (2021) Everyday Resistances to Environmental Racism, Mestizo Geographies, and Toxicity in Oaxaca

Stawkowski (2016) “I Am a Radioactive Mutant”

Lecture 5 slides

Wk 7 - Vulnerability

Butler (2016) Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance

Bargu (2015) Weaponization of Life: Human Shields and Hunger Strikers. [a Funambulist Podcast]

Alaimo (2010) The Naked Word: The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of the Protesting Body

Bargu (2016) Bodies against War: Voluntary Human Shielding as a Practice of Resistance

Diabate (2020) Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy [from her book Naked Agency]

Hedva (2015) My Body Is a Prison So I want to Leave It Like a Mystic But I Also Love It &amp; Want It to Matter Politically. [an audio-visual presentation - with transcript]

Mathebula &amp; Canham (2022) The Affective Afterlife of Naked Body Protests

Phillips (2021) Where Has Vulnerability Gone?

Tzelepis (2016) Vulnerable Corporealities and Precarious Belongings in Mona Hatoum’s Art

Lecture 7 slides - Vulnerability

Wk 8 - Caring

Taylor (2008) On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia

Disability, Charity, Entitlements and Human Rights - short audio-visual

Ahlin (2017) Only Near Is Dear?

Buch (2013) Senses of Care: Embodying Inequality and Sustaining Personhood

Dokumaci (2020) People as Affordances: Building Disability Worlds through Care Intimacy

Eales &amp; Peers (2021) Care Haunts, Hurts, Heals. The Promiscuous Poetics of Queer Crip Mad Care

Friedner (2020) Disability, Anonymous Love, and Interwordly Socials in Urban India

Hunleth (2019) Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring

Kaur Gill (2022) Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch

Louw (2022) Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds

Sadruddin (2020) The Care of “Small Things”: Aging and Dignity in Rwanda

AS1 - sample paper - death & daal

Hedva (2015) My Body Is a Prison So I want to Leave It Like a Mystic But I Also Love It & Want It to Matter Politically. [an audio-visual presentation - with transcript]

Mathebula & Canham (2022) The Affective Afterlife of Naked Body Protests

Eales & Peers (2021) Care Haunts, Hurts, Heals. The Promiscuous Poetics of Queer Crip Mad Care

Duggan & Munoz (2009) Hope and Hopelessness: A Dialogue