ENST 372 - Topics in Human Geography

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as GEOG 372 and INTL 372) This seminar focuses on advanced debates in the socio-spatial organization of the modern world. The specific topic of inquiry varies from year to year. Students may repeat the course for credit of the topc changes.

Topic for 2022/23a: Political Ecology: Nature, Borders, and Mobility. The relationship between environmental change and the livelihoods of peoples across the planet has long been a central concern of geographers. Political ecology is a particular, albeit multifaceted, approach to such matters. Broadly concerned with the dialectical ties between nature and society, it centers its analysis on socio-spatial relations, social power and difference, geographic unevenness, and issues of socio-ecological (in)justice. This seminar explores these matters through a focus on borders, territory, and movements of people and other forms of life. In doing so, the course engages various theoretical approaches ranging from actor network theory and post-humanism to Marxism and post-coloniality. It includes case studies from Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, and North America—as well as from borderlands within and between these regions. Joseph Nevins.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: CLS