SHUM 4640 - Racial Ecologies of Transpacific Nuclearism

(crosslisted) AAS 4640, AMST 4640, COML 4640, FGSS 4641
(CU-ITL, CU-SBY)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Co-meets with FGSS 6641/SHUM 6640.

Y. Cho.

This course examines contemporary literary and cultural memory work that mediates the emergence of nuclear energy in Asia and the Pacific after World War Two as a transpacific settler colonial and racial institution and discourse. Building on current environmental humanities scholarship on the nuclear Pacific, this course foregrounds racial ecologies as well as women of color and queer of color critique as key methods to analyses of geo-cultural politics of transpacific nuclear modernity. For longer description and instructor bio, visit societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses