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 of imminent global ecological crisis (global warming, threats on biodiversity, scarcity of resources). The course covers a diversity of social sciences approaches from anthropology to political science and sociology: how conceptions of nature shape our attitudes to its enjoyment, understanding and exploitation; the challenges to environmentally friendly public policies at the national, the European and the international levels, including; 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, in the EU and beyond.
Florence FAUCHER
Séminaire
English
Notions of political science and sociology.
Autumn 2025-2026
Assessment for this class is based on
continuous assessment including logs and class exercises (40%)
a group project presented in class (30%)
an end of semester essay (30%)
Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore, Steven Bernstein, Graeme Auld, Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change, Policy Sciences, 2012, 45:123–152, doi: 10.1007/s11077-012-9151-0
Dubuisson-Quellier, S. (2022). How does affluent consumption come to consumers? A research agenda for exploring the foundations and lock-ins of affluent consumption. Consumption and Society, 1(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1332/UHIW3894
Raul Pacheco-Vega (2020) Environmental regulation, governance, and policy instruments, 20 years after the stick, carrot, and sermon typology, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Burke, Miriam, Ockwell, David and Whitmarsh, Lorraine 2018. Participatory arts and affective engagement with climate change: The missing link in achieving climate compatible behaviour change? Global Environmental Change 49, pp. 95-105.