Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

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PSCI0452A-S15

Global Environmental Justice

Ecocriticism and Global Environmental Justice
Many global environmental problems—climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, clean water, and transboundary waste movement—are ineffectively managed. In this course we will take a critical look at these failures and ask: do existing norms and attitudes make effective, sustainable environmental management more difficult? In doing so, we will examine institutions and phenomena such as the sovereign nation-state, free market capitalism, and the authority of scientific knowledge. We will ask whether sustainable management is compatible with these institutions and phenomena, or whether they contribute to environmental injustice, racism, political marginalization, and gender and class inequity by studying contemporary and historic examples. 3 hrs. sem. (International Relations and Foreign Policy)/
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22342
Subject Code:
PSCI
Course Number:
0452
Section Identifier:
A

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PSCI 0452

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Spring 2015

PSCI0452A-S15 Seminar (Fuentes-George)