Summer 2024 Anthropology S2724 section 001

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE C

Call Number 10008
Day & Time
Location
MW 5:30pm-8:40pm
214 Pupin Laboratories
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Fern M Thompsett
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course focuses on some of the present, and possible future, socio-ecological conditions of life on planet
earth. In particular we will work to understand the historic, economic, political, and socio-cultural forces that
created the conditions we call climate change. With this we will take a particular interest in the question of how
race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, and gender articulate with the material effects of climate change. The course
also focuses on how we, as scholars, citizens, and activists can work to alter these current conditions in ways
that foster social and ecological justice for all living beings. Although we will ground our scholarship in
anthropology, to encourage interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary thought, weekly readings will be drawn
from across scholarly and activist canons. While becoming familiar with scholarly and activist conversations
about space and place, risk and vulnerability, and ontology and epistemology, we will work through a series of
recent events as case studies to understand causes, effects, affects, and potential solutions.

Web Site Vergil
Subterm 05/20-06/28 (A)
Department Summer Session (SUMM)
Enrollment 7 students (50 max) as of 2:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number S2724
Section 001
Division Summer Session
Section key 20242ANTH2724S001