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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | INSTB220001 |
| Course Title | Poli. Ecology & Enviro Justice |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Environmental Studies |
| Instructor | Carby Denning,Nicholas |
| Times and Days | TTh 01:10pm-02:30pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2869 This course is an introduction to the fields of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice. Through ethnographic accounts, documentary film, graphic novels, photography and other multimedia, students will be introduced to ethnographic case studies of environmental justice struggles, conflicts over resources, and the impacts of extractive industries on indigenous and other frontline communities across the Global South and North. How, we will ask, do environmental problems, such as climate change, pollution and toxicity, biodiversity loss and extinctions, and struggles over resource extraction intersect with questions of identity and inequality, such as race, ethnicity, nation, indigeneity, and gender? Students will make use of the theoretical and methodological tools offered by environmental justice and political ecology to critically examine: processes of globalization, development, and the racialized postcolonial geographies of resource extraction; the problem of environmental racism, and social movements for indigenous sovereignty and climate justice; and science and technology studies inquiries into the relations between humans and non-humans. Together, we will trace the historical roots, colonial logics, and contemporary effects of extractive capitalism and learn from the legacies of movements social and environmental justice in order to interrogate our own positionality within the global political ecology of resource extraction and consumption. Prerequisite: Intro to International Studies recommended as preparation Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Attentive; Enrollment Cap: 22; f the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: INST and ENVS majors and minors by class with preference to INST (INST Senior, then ENVS Senior, then INST Junior, then ENVS Junior, then INST Sophomore, then ENVS Sophomore) then Freshmen, then all other majors by class (Senior, then Junior, then Sophomore). |
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