Week-by-week Syllabus and Readings

2/19 Week 1

Course Orientation

2/26 Week 2

Nature and Society

Required reading:

Hinchliffe, S. (2008) “Reconstituting Nature Conservation: Towards a Careful Political Ecology” Geoforum 39: 88-97

3/5 Week 3

Nature Reconstructed: Sustainabilit(ies)

Required reading:                                                           

Kierstin C. Hatt, Debra J. Davidson, and Ineke Lock (2005) Power and Sustainability., in Davidson, Debra J; Hatt, Kierstin C (eds.) Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change. 2005, p8-19.

Ana João Gaspar de Sousa & Elisabeth Kastenholz (2015)  Wind farms and the rural tourism experience – problem or possible productive integration? The views of visitors and residents of a Portuguese village, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 23(2015), 1236-1256 (only the paragraphs before methodology)

3/12 Week 4

Grassroots Innovation or Market

Required reading:

Gill Seyfang & Adrian Smith (2007) Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda, Environmental Politics, 16:4, 584-603

Edith Chezel and Olivier Labussière (2018) Energy landscape as a polity. Wind power practices in Northern Friesland, Landscape Research, 43(4), 503-516. (only the paragraphs before section 3)

3/19 Week 5

Following Actors: Your Issue and Case Study Workshop

Based on STS’s Actor-Network-Theory (ANT),

we are going to draw an environmental controversy map locating and documenting the more-than-human actors and knowledge claims

Winds of Change - Offshore Wind in the North Sea

3/26 Week 6

Documentary:

Rewilding, restoring and reconnecting with nature in Derbyshire

4/2 Week 7

Holiday

4/9 Week 8

Globalised Environmental Knowledge

Required reading:

Mike Hulme (2020) Climate change forever: the future of an idea, Scottish Geographical Journal, 136:1-4, 118-122 , DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2020.1853872

Clark A. Miller. (2004) Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order. In Sheila Jasanoff edited States of Knowledge, The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order. New York: Routledge

4/16 Week 9

Mid-term Week (Catching up week)

4/23 Week 10

Environmental Governance and Politics

Required reading:

Dunlop, C. A. (2012). Epistemic communities. In E. Araral, S. Fritzen, M. Howlett, M. Ramesh, & X. Wu (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (pp. 247–261). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097571-28

Lo, A. Y., & Chen, K. (2019). Policy selection of knowledge: The changing network of experts in the development of an emission trading scheme. Geoforum, 106, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.021

4/30 Week 11

 Environmental Justice and Pluralism

Required reading:

Schlosberg, D. (2013). Theorising environmental justice: The expanding sphere of a discourse. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 37–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755387

Brush, E. (2020). Inconvenient truths: pluralism, pragmatism, and the need for civil disagreement. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 10(2), 160-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-020-00589-7

5/7 Week 12

Citizen Science and Participatory Knowledge

Required reading:

Irwin A (2015) ‘Citizen science and scientific citizenship: same words, different meanings?’ in Science Communication Today – 2015 (Bernard Schiele, Joëlle Le Marec and Patrick Baranger eds) Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine: Nancy pp 29-38.

Fan, Fa‐ti, and Shun-ling Chen. 2019. "Citizen, Science, and Citizen Science." East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 13, no. 181-193.

5/14 Week 13

Resilience and Nature-based Solutions

Required reading:

Lockie, S. (2016). Beyond resilience and systems theory: reclaiming justice in sustainability discourse. In Environmental Sociology (Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 115–117). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2016.1182308

Mabon, L and Kawabe, M (2017) ‘Making sense of post-disaster Fukushima fisheries: a scalar approach‘ Environmental Science and Policy 75: 173-183

5/21 Week 14

University Anniversary Sports Day

5/28 Week 15

Documentary: Anthropocene - The Human Epoch

6/ 4 Week 16

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Required reading:

Castree, Noel (2014) ‘The Anthropocene and geography I: the back story,’ Geography Compass, 8(7), pp. 436-49.

Davies, Jeremy. 2016. "Versions of the Anthropocene." In the Birth of the Anthropocene. Oakland: University of California Press.

6/11 Week 17

Self-Learning Week

6/18 Week 18

Self-Learning Week