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