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21A.429[J] Environmental Conflict
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Not offered academic year 2024-2025Graduate (Fall)
(Same subject as STS.320[J])
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
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Explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States. Use of environmental conflict to draw attention to competing understandings and uses of "nature" as well as the local, national and transnational power relationships in which environmental interactions are embedded. In addition to utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, subject draws upon a series of ethnographic case studies of environmental conflicts in various parts of the world.
C. Walley