Race, Nature & Power
Geography 472
Next up, Spring 2024
This undergraduate class explores the role that racial formation and power relations play in the cultural, political and spatial production of nature. Students will bring together the insights of political ecology (usually associated with the rural Third World) and environmental justice (usually associated with the urban US) across three modules:
- Racial formations in place-making;
- (Un)natural disasters and the distribution of risk; and
- Body politics, including debates over reproductive justice and Native American DNA.
There are no prerequisites, but it's helpful if you have taken a relevant lower-division course. Possibilities include: Environmental Justice (Geog272), Geography of Food & Eating (Geog271), and/or Geographies of Health (Geog280).