Syllabus
Weekly Themes of the Modules and Assigned Materials
MODULE I. Climate Change & the Anthropocene: Drivers, Governance & (In)Justice in a World of Convergent Crises
Week 1: Climate Change in the Context of the Anthropocene’s Convergent Crises
Week 2: Climate Governance
Week 3: Climate Justice, Colonial Legacies, Ecological/Climate Debt, Ecological Imperialism, Ecologically Unequal Exchange
Week 4: Anthropocene, Climate at the Intersection of Power Relations and Global
MODULE II. Complex Intersections: Exploring the Links of Climate Change to Other Crises
Week 5: Climate Change in Relation to Land Grabs and the Food System Crises
First Short Paper
Week 6: Energy, Minerals, Climate & "Anthropocene" Crises
Week 7: Climate Change and Economics in the Anthropocene
Term Project Research Proposal
Week 8: Climate Change & Migration
Week 9: Climate Change and Health
Week 10: Climate Change and the Governance, Militarization and Security Crises in the Anthropocene
Second Short Paper
MODULE III. Hegemonic Solutions / Counterhegemonic Alternatives: Reinforcing, Reforming or Transforming the System?
Week 11: Roots of Anthropocene/Climate Crises and their Contemporary Policy Manifestations I: Geoengineering & Epistemologies of Mastery
Week 12: Contemporary Manifestations of Root Challenges in Proposed Solutions