ULEC2592

This course provides an introduction to select topics in critical and radical environmental geographies. Weekly lectures by New School faculty as well as special guest speakers are combined with weekly small group seminar discussions to provide the opportunity for exploring how race, space and dispossession can be understood geographically and environmentally. Sample topics covered in the course include the following: War and Migration; Plantation Economies; The Problem of Parks; Ancestor Oil; Food as Social Object; Prison Ecologies; and, Methods of Resistance. Students must register for both the lecture and discussion section of the course. [This ULEC is in category 1, Tools for Social Change.]