APY 619SEM - Political Ecology: Nature, Capital and Climate Change

The term “political ecology” has become a useful shorthand for the growing recognition, in several disciplines, of the extent to which environmental changes and societal processes are intertwined. Understanding this intertwinement has become especially relevant to analyze our new global reality and the effects of climate change. This course interrogates the relationship between social and environmental processes through the engagement with a wide spectrum of disciplinary frameworks, ranging from environmental history to human geography, and from social anthropology to world-systems theory, ecological economics and eco-marxist approaches. Credits: 3