Deep Futures: Feminist Ecological Imaginaries from Latin America
New School for Social Research: Anthropology
CRN: 17246
Credits: 3
n this course, we address socio-environmental questions through the lens of feminist ecological imaginaries. Drawing on political ecology, Latin American feminist thought and practice, and subaltern socioecological struggles, we will build a theoretical and pedagogical toolkit for imagining, creating, and enacting “Deep Futures”: nonlinear, relational timescales centred around life-affirming human-nature relations. New Latin American feminisms have emerged from environmental and ecological movements, initially linked to resistance against capitalism and modernity. Increasingly, these voices also challenge coloniality and patriarchy and call for a reimagination of theory, methods, and everyday practice to address socioenvironmental and gender issues. This feminism is committed to linking theory, research, and pedagogy with the responsibility to enable other possible futures for human and more-than-human communities. It also draws attention to how violence traverses ecologies, just as it traverses racialized, disabled, nonbinary, and/or colonized women’s or feminized bodies. Together, these feminist voices are opening new horizons for Deep Futures. Inspired by this Deep Futures framework, we will strive in this course to cultivate intersectional and engaged methods that involve both humans and more-than-humans as part of our daily practice. An important class component involves students presenting their pedagogical tool, which I call “recuperdas.” Since it takes time to present and practice this tool, the class duration is 2 hours and 40 minutes, followed by a seminar discussion.
College: New School for Social Research (GF)
Department: Anthropology (ANT)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Seminar (R)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 18
Add/Drop Deadline: September 9, 2025 (Tuesday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 17, 2025 (Monday)
Seats Available: Yes
Status: Open*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 5:42pm EDT 3/26/2025