Sensory Ecologies

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This seminar critically examines how sensory experiences mediate various kinds of relationships, including between humans, nonhumans, and environments. Drawing from anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), environmental humanities, art theory and practice, and sensory ethnography, the course explores how ecologies are lived, perceived, created, and contested through embodied practice. We will analyze how sensory regimes are shaped by power hierarchies, labor, infrastructures, and histories, and how they inform knowledge production, governance, resistance, refusal, and creative endeavors. Students will engage multimodal methods to investigate how ecological relations, broadly conceived, are felt, negotiated, and made meaningful.