Environmental Political Thought
This course examines key paradigms of environmental thought, such as political ecology, ecomodernism, ecosocialism, and ecofascism, to investigate their diagnoses and prescriptions for environmental harm.
Summary
Lectures are mid-sized, with a median of 60 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Understand and apply interpretive approaches to works of environmental political thought.
Analyze and evaluate concepts and arguments in environmental political thought.
Articulate and develop conceptual claims and arguments in environmental political thought.
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the class
Consider key paradigms of environmental thought, including political ecology, ecomodernism, ecosocialism, and ecofascism. In light of environmental degradation and crisis, investigate how these conceptual lenses offer divergent diagnoses of and prescriptions for environmental harm. Investigate the ways in which environmentally related domination and inequity may be linked to the legacies of racism, colonialism, and gender hierarchy. Analyze whether and in what way these forms of domination and inequity can be conceptualized as environmental injustices. Finally, explore different drivers of and impediments to environmental political action, ranging from environmental social movements and calls for climate justice, to climate denialism and potentially apathy-inducing phenomena like eco-anxiety.
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Topics
- Environmental domination and inequity linked to racism, colonialism, and gender hierarchy.
- Drivers and impediments to environmental political action, including social movements, climate justice, denialism, and eco-anxiety.
Skills
- Apply interpretive approaches to works of environmental political thought.
- Analyze and evaluate concepts and arguments in environmental political thought.
- Articulate and develop conceptual claims and arguments in environmental political thought.
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