Inequality, Conflict, and the Environment

Catalog description

This course explores the nature/ society interactions through the lenses of inequality and conflict over environmental resources. By framing environmental conflicts through the perspective of human geography, the class will explore the spatial implications of difference and inequality for debates over environmental resources. Case studies relating to contemporary resource conflicts, drawn from different parts of the world, will provide contexts for understanding key debates in nature/society relations, environmental justice, and political ecology. Course themes may include, but are not limited to, topics such as race, colonialism, indigeneity, urban informality, environmental toxins, waste, pollution, and activism.