SD 3800 CLASSICS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Fall 2015
M, W, F, LLR 221
Dr. Anatoli Ignatov
E-mail: anatoli@appstate.edu
Phone: 828-262-6316
Office: LLA 212
Required Course Texts (physical):
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2000.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring, anniversary edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
Neidjie, Bill. Gagudju Man. Marleston, SA: Gecko Books, 2007.
Saro-Wiwa, Ken. A Month and a Day & Letters, with forward by Wole Soyinka. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony, introduction by Larry McMurtry. New York: Penguin Deluxe Edition, 2006.
Thoreau, Henry D. Walden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Required Course Films:
Sweet Crude (2009), directed by Sandy Cioffi
Delta Force (1995), directed by Glen Ellis
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, produced and written by Neil Goodwin (PBS)
Life and Debt (2003), directed by Stephanie Black
In the Light of Reverence (2001), directed by Christopher McLeod
Ten Canoes (2006), directed by Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer
Electronic Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:
De Heer, Rolf. “Personal Reflections on Whiteness and Three Film Projects” Australian Humanities Review 42 (AugustSeptember 2007) http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-August-September-2007/Deheer.html
Chapter 3 “Pipedreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Micro-minority Rights” in Rob Nixon. Slow Violence
and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 103-27.
Thoreau, Henry D. “Walking” in Excursions. Watchmaker Publishing, 2010, pp. 93-121.
Bernie Krause. “Voices from the Land” and “Biophony: The Proto-Orchestra” in The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the
Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012, pp. 36-53, 68-105.
Chapter 2 “Techniques of the Self” in Bennett, Jane. Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild. New York: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2002, pp. 16-46.
Borrows, John. “Living between Water and Rocks: First Nations, Environmental Planning, and Democracy” University of
Toronto Law Journal 47, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 417-468.
"Return to Concord" in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.
3-42.
Other Videos and Movies:
Indian Givers, by Sarnia/Aamjiwnaang-based Kiijig Collective, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pot411GJzdM
TED Talks: The Economics of Enough: Dan O’Neill, < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIG33QtLRyA>
Grand Avenue (1996), directed by Daniel Sackheim (HBO movie)
Skins (2002), directed by Chris Eyre
Thoreau’s Cabin Redux: Tiny Homes and Happiness, http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/thoreaus-cabin-redux-tinyhomes-and-happiness/
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