The objective of the course is to explore the articulation between environmental attitudes and worldviews and how they contribute to shape green political action in a context where the imminence of a global ecological crisis (global warming, threats on biodiversity, scarcity of resources) is no longer in question. The course covers a diversity of social sciences approaches: how conceptions of nature shape our attitudes to its enjoyment, understanding and exploitation; the challenges to environmentally friendly public policies at the national and international levels; the role of individuals from collective mobilisation to the emergence of the “citizen-consumer”; the parliamentary and the extra-parliamentary strategies of environmental movements and of the counter-movements.
Florence FAUCHER
Séminaire
English
None but notions of political science and sociology help.
Autumn 2021-2022
Assessment for this class is based on (1) a book review (30%), a group project (30%) and (3) an end of semester essay (30%). A weekly blog is also required.
John S. Dryzek, Jonahtan Pickering, The Politics of the Anthropocene, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Weekly readings of about 40 pages. First week: Johan Rockström, A safe operating space for humanity, Nature, 461(24), 2009 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/full/461472a.html
Robert O. Keohane, The Global Politics of Climate Change: Challenge for Political Science, PS: Political Science & Politics, January 2015, doi:10.1017/S1049096514001541