Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Reims campus
Course Title:
Decolonizing the Ecological Debate
Course Number:
Course Description:
This course aims to re-present indigenous South and North American voices in the global ecological debate by discussing specific case studies of these groups’ negotiations with environmental entities – from restricting state policies to neoliberal carbon markets – in light of key cosmological, ecological, political, and social categories prevalent in these groups. Using insights drawn from anthropological research, we will deconstruct Western commonplaces pervading the ecological debate, such as collective ownership as well as co-existence with Nature in non-modern societies, and, more importantly, we will problematize the Nature/Culture dichotomy that stands at the core of our environmental imagination. Considering these groups’ economic situation and development aspirations, we will discuss the equation of cultural preservation with ecological conservation. We will question the possibility and implications of granting indigenous ecological knowledge scientific validity, and, taking into account the colonialist reverberations of a global ecological perspective, we will consider if it can be
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 399
Attachment Files:
syllabus-decolonizing the global ecological debate-April-update.pdf
