This course will synthesize activist practice, humanities scholarship, ecological literature and public policy to evaluate alternatives to ongoing ecocide. With an emphasis on Indigenous thought and contemporary voices from the (so-called) Global South we will investigate what an environmentalism by and for the people might look like. Following Tuck and Yang's 2012 declaration that decolonization is not a metaphor, this class will evaluate practical, anti-colonial and imaginative solutions to the quagmire of intersecting crises that define our present.
3-5 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
This course will synthesize activist practice, humanities scholarship, ecological literature and public policy to evaluate alternatives to ongoing ecocide. With an emphasis on Indigenous thought and contemporary voices from the (so-called) Global South we will investigate what an environmentalism by and for the people might look like. Following Tuck and Yang's 2012 declaration that decolonization is not a metaphor, this class will evaluate practical, anti-colonial and imaginative solutions to the quagmire of intersecting crises that define our present.