EVS 449—Social Theory & Sustainability

This seminar looks closely at foundational ideas about how society works across major social scientific disciplines and asks how these ideas have shaped understandings of the environmental challenges we face. Topics will include political economy, power and the state, feminist theory, racial formation and intersectionality, indigeneity and decolonization, and science and technology studies, among others. In each case the focus will be on the tools a given theoretical approach provides for understanding processes of environmental change, the links between everyday experiences and global environmental phenomena, and implications for socio-ecological transformation. Dual-listed with EVS 549.