Race, Nature & Power
Geography 472
Next up, Spring 2024
Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:30 - 4:20pm
SLN: 15027
This upper-división seminar explores the role that racial formations and unequal power relations play in the cultural, political and spatial production of nature. This class brings together the insights of political ecology (usually associated with ‘First World’ academics who make sense of environmental degradation in the rural ‘Third World’) and environmental justice (usually associated with ground-up community based movements in the urban US) across three broad themes:
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You can check out a draft syllabus here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c7XgEoL_FjBv4Spz_Nlej3EtKCdoHviAKqhuIbRznKo/edit?usp=sharing