Race, Colonialism, & the Env

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the confluence of race, colonialism, economy, and ecology and how such forces and realities informed the modern world through a series of open ended and yet to be concluded historical processes. It considers how the implementation of European extractive economies contributed to environmental degradation, deforestation, and global climate disruption. The course centers the struggles of indigenous peoples across continents in their responses to the philosophical, religious, cultural, and legal baggage of Western civilization. It considers how indigenous peoples transcended such impositions by relying on their cultural and religious traditions and their socio-economic relations with their respective environments.