POLI 385 - Disaster, Displacement, and Diasporic Worldmaking

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This seminar engages with critical ecological approaches to human displacement and environmental disaster towards recognizing ways in which racism functions as a material force shaping relations between humans and the non-human world. Centering forms of relationality and resistance emanating from the Caribbean, the seminar investigates the implications for movements and mobilizations for racial and environmental justice. The seminar also examines how non-human materialities such as water, landform, and atmosphere are implicated in global systems of capital accumulation and dispossession. Through forms of fugitivity and marronage born out of diasporic invention, the seminar concludes by charting new courses towards forms of worldmaking that contest the temporalities and divisions within disaster and displacement frameworks. Benjamin Scherrer.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: CLS