This course will utilize social theory and recent social science and humanities scholarship to explore the ways in which environments and people produce one another. How are environments - bodies of water, lands, plants - and their relations and economies produced by people? How are categories of people - classed, racialized, gendered, nationalized, othered - produced by and in relation to environments? How are these two processes of the production of environments and people simultaneous and interwoven? We will draw from multiple disciplines and subdisciplines to explore these questions, including medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, human geography, sociology, "new plantation" and plantationocene studies, critical and phenomenological studies of the body, and political economy. The course will include the reading of ethnographic monographs, social theory, and social science and humanities articles and will culminate with the writing of a final paper focused on the topic of each students' choosing in relation to what might be called "enviro-anthropo-genesis". show less