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Geography 5801, Climate Justice, is back in our lineup of courses offered AU 16

July 26, 2016

Geography 5801, Climate Justice, is back in our lineup of courses offered AU 16

G5801

This Autumn Joel Wainwright will be teaching, PDF icon GEOG 5801.pdf

This is a course on the politics of environmentalism at a time of planetary emergency. In the face of rapid climate change, what are our political prospects? To answer this question, we will study three core themes: planetary climate change; the interrelation of nature and society; and capitalist social relations. This is a broad and complex set of issues. To bring them into focus and organize our studies, we will consider them mainly by way of philosophical inquiry combined with critical political economy. We will also draw from a series of case studies to examine how ideas about nature, climate change and conservation translate into concrete practices and policies.