About GEOG 3780 A
Advanced offerings in political ecology and political economy, particularly at global and regional scales. Possible topics include Third World economic restructuring, globalization, international environmental movements. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisites: Vary with course content; minimum Junior standing.
Notes
Pre-reqs: GEOG 1760 or GEOG 1780 or ENVS 1500; Six hours in Geography. GEOG majors only for first week of registration; Minimum Junior standing; PACE students with permission and override System waitlisting enabled for this section.
Section URL
https://soc.uvm.edu/?details&srcdb=202701&crn=14581
Section Description
This course is a geographically-oriented weekly seminar examining how environmental issues interact with inequalities in society including race, gender, and poverty within the United States and internationally. Each week, our group will approach a different place for the purposes of analyzing and discussing the dynamics behind local iterations of environmental (in)justice. Seminars will include lectures and screening elements. Students will all have the opportunity to lead a discussion, including providing literature for research, on an EJ case study of their choice. Some case studies this class may explore include post-Katrina New Orleans (Louisiana), Lote Ocho (Izabal, Guatemala), the Michigan PBB Crisis, the history of mass displacement and the Mamberamo Mega-Project (West Papua), as well as the spatiality of oil spills and "wild"fires throughout North America.
Section Expectation
After successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: (1) Define environmental justice and describe its historical origins and the contributions to environmental justice movements from marginalized groups; (2) Describe major forms of environmental injustice in the United States and internationally; (3) Compare and contrast the causes and consequences from environmental inequality from multiple perspectives; (4) Describe legal hurdles and solutions to environmental injustice; and (5) Think geographically to understand how environmental injustice occurs due to race, gender, and poverty and the intersection of these marginalized groups.
There will be one required text: The Poisoning of Michigan by Joyce Egginton (9780870138676). Other readings will be provided digitally, unless physical texts are chosen by students in the class as part of their seminar leadership responsibilities.
Evaluation
This section will operate as a seminar, with students and instructor engaging weekly in a forum of discussion about the intersections of place and environmental justice. Students will also be submitting written reports/analyses of their case studies, along with responses to classmates over the course of the semester. Students will also be responsible for shorter reading responses and two exams.
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