AP/POLS4261 3.0 A: Security, Capitalism, Ecology
Offered by: POLS
Session
Summer 2020
Term
S1
Format
BLEN (Blended online and classroom)
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
Analyses how the development and contradictions of global capitalism affect human security, basic conditions of existence, forms of livelihood and social and ecological sustainability. Interrogates concepts such as: human security, capital, commodity, commons, primitive accumulation, environment, ecology and food sovereignty from a variety of different theoretical perspectives, including neoliberalism, ecofeminism, eco-socialism and historical materialism. Course credit exclusions: None.
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