Environmental Inequality

Catalog description

This course explores the relationship between humans and their environments, with an emphasis on issues of power and inequality. Not limiting our understanding of the environment to “nature”, readings cover the environmental politics of workplaces and homes, cities and rural areas, and global issues such as climate change and infectious disease pandemics. The course centers decolonial, indigenous, critical race, and feminist perspectives on the environment, while engaging topics such as extractive economies, conservation, toxicity, and multispecies relations.