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SOCA1314 - Society and environment
Credits :
5
Lecturer :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.
Timetable :
Second term
Monday from 10:45 to 12:45 at Ommegang Om21SdE
Language of instruction :
Dutch (even the reading material).
Learning outcomes :
The course aims at getting a better understanding of today's environmental problems and their socio-political implications. For the environment involves societal stakes and political claims that are arresting and even difficult to grasp, let stand to resolve. That's why the course explores the classics, texts, theories and research that helped to disclose the foremost political nature of the environmental question.
Prerequisites :
 For the Bachelor in Information and Communication :
For the Bachelor in Political Sciences: General :
For the Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology :
Co-requisites :
None
Course contents :
During the course, we'll gain a better understanding of the impact environmental matters have had on society's political choices. Natural-cultural entanglements take us well beyond managerial questions and open the way to Political Ecology.
In terms of cases, authors and theories, the course will explore some of the founding texts of the environmental movement and of the so-called « political » ecology as it appears in the 1960-‘70s (see bibliography below).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Lectures and discussion in class.
Compulsory reading of articles.
Assessment methods and criteria :
Open-book oral exam.
Recommended or required reading :
In-depth exploration of six classic books (excerpts will be made available) :
Rachel CARSON, Dode lente, Amsterdam: Becht, 1963 (translation of Silent Spring, 1962).
Dennis MEADOWS & Donella MEADOWS & Jørgen RANDERS & Williams BEHRENS, Rapport van de Club van Rome: de grenzen aan de groei, Utrecht & Antwerpen: Spectrum, 1972 (translation of The limits to growth : a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind, 1972)
Barry Commoner, Overleven we dit? Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1972 (translation of The Closing Circle, 1972).
Ivan ILLICH, Naar een nieuwe levensstijl: voorwaarden voor gelukkiger samen-leven, Baarn: Wereldvenster, 1973 (translation of Tools of Conviviality, 1973).
André GORZ, Ecologie en vrijheid: politieke opstellen over milieu, energie en economische groei, Amsterdam : Van Gennep, 1977 (translation of Ecologie et liberté, 1977)
Other information :
Face-to-face reading seminar, in 13 sessions.
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