Introduction to Culture, Technology and Environment

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Investigates the dominant critical perspectives about three of the most fundamental constituents of human civilization: culture, environment and technology. The attention to the interaction and interdependence between environment and technologies (old and new) has been recently rising. Brings in culture--from the biological to the mammal--as another node to the approach, helping students realize the co-existence of these aspects in our life, to see how these topics interact, and the profound influence they have on contemporary issues. After introducing various notions of culture, environment and technology, draws on concrete, hands-on and interactive case studies that epitomize how culture, environment and technology have been connected throughout human history and, indeed, have shaped the modern, technologized and globalized world in which humans and their nonhuman planet mates live today.