Listed in: Anthropology and Sociology, as SOCI-342 | Environmental Studies, as ENST-342
Hannah A. Holleman (Section 01)
(Offered as SOCI 342 and ENST 342) If you learn about the major trends shaping human societies and the rest of the planet in our era, you might ask these questions: How do we reduce the vast inequalities threatening democracy and undermining the self-determination of peoples around the world? How do we address global-scale crises like climate change, the pollution of the earth’s lands and waters, and anthropogenic extinction of species? How do we heal social divisions to build movements based on solidarity and reparation that transcend a “single-issue” focus while emphasizing the distinct needs of diverse communities? Can we imagine a society geared toward meeting culturally-determined human needs and deepening human happiness, while at the same time restoring the earth systems on which we depend? How do we engage such daunting issues with strength and, at times, joy?
These are massive questions now asked by scholars, scientists, activists, and communities around the world. This course explores answers to these questions through in-depth sociological analyses of critical victories and visions toward ecological and social change emerging internationally in the past decade. Such case studies represent hopeful challenges to the xenophobic, racist, anti-ecological, homophobic, misogynistic, winner-takes-all politics threatening much of life on earth.
Students must have at least one course in either SOCI or ANTH, or ENST 120, or other courses addressing the trends that are central to this course.
Limited to 18 students. Admission with consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Professor Holleman.
Section 01
M 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM MORG 110
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What is Critical Environmental Justice? | Polity Press | Pellow, David Naguib | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need | Haymarket Books | Klein, Naomi | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming | Haymarket Books | LaDuke, Winona | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color | SUNY Press | Moraga, Cherrie and Anzuldua, Gloria | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.