Instructor: Dr. Litsa Chatzivasileiou
An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural overview of contemporary environmental issues, as they relate to gender equality and social justice challenges and initiatives that respond to ecological crises. Recommended prerequisite: GRSJ 101.
Description:
An intersectional overview of environmental issues as they relate to colonial philosophical
thought and capitalist economy at the root of social phenomena such as settler colonialism,
imperialism, and the refugee crisis intertwined with the climate crisis. The second half focuses
on hopeful decolonial alternatives based on Indigenous knowledge of radical care for the Earth,
and practices of sound ecology, Indigenous land back movements, deep ecology and the anti
capitalist degrowth movement.