Course description

This course introduces postgraduate students to the emerging subfield of critical political ecology in the anthropology of development. Drawing on a political ecology lens, students will critically examine, understand and debate the complex relations between nature and society through an analysis of how political economic structures intersect with, shape, and are shaped, by local responses to access to, use of, and control over natural resources. Students will consider how different groups of people experience, understand and engage their social and biophysical environments in contested arenas of development and change across time and space in the 'first' and 'third' world. This reading and writing intensive course involves a multi-scale analysis of how broader political economic processes intersect with a variety of local, social, and environmental issues including gender relations, ethnicity, environmental violence, and global conservation initiatives, among others.

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