Middlebury

GEOG0205A-S17

Nature, Power, and Society

Geographies of Nature, Power, and Society
This course provides an introduction to the contributions of human geography to the interdisciplinary field of political ecology. Political ecology offers a framework for understanding and critically rethinking explanations of human interactions with the environment, working toward equitable and sustainable solutions. For political ecologists, environmental change and social conflict result from uneven access to resources, and hence from power relations. Human geographers contribute concepts of scale, space, place, spatial interactions, and situated knowledge. We will integrate concepts from both fields to study human-environment interactions, and to analyze the production of knowledge and discourses about environmental problems. 3 hr. sem.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
21573
Subject Code:
GEOG
Course Number:
0205
Section Identifier:
A

Course

GEOG 0205

All Sections in Spring 2017

Spring 2017

GEOG0205A-S17 Lecture (Holler)