Race, Nature & Power

Fall 2025
Section ID: 968068
Tu/Thu 11:00am - 12:20pm

~ all prerequisites will be waived for this quarter ~

digital illustration of a large pink and green haunted house with ghosts and stars. text reads, 'my body is not a temple, it is a haunted house.'

Image: “My body is not a temple, it is a haunted house” by Liberal Jane

This class brings together the insights of environmental justice (usually associated with ground-up community based movements in the urban US) and political ecology (usually associated with ‘First World’ academics who make sense of environmental degradation in the rural ‘Third World’) and across three broad themes: land, body politics and relations of repair. The course moves from what might seem familiar and intimate to make it strange, and then invites speculations towards making a world we all can live in.