Obiectivele cursului:
Schimbările climatice produc efecte la nivel global, dar și local, ce nu mai pot fi ignorate. Unele dintre aceste efecte sunt evidente pentru că ne afectează direct. Multe altele, însă, se petrec departe de noi (uneori fizic, alteori doar figurativ). Comunitățile vulnerabile sunt cele mai afectate de schimmbările climatice, iar acest lucru nu este întâmplător. În ciuda faptului că, în discursul instituțional, în strategiile și politicile publice vulnerabilitatea este un aspect important, în pracatică, de multe ori, aceste comunități ajung într-o stare de vulnerabilitate încă și mai acută. Cum ne uităm noi, sociologii, la acest fenomen? Ce comunități sunt cele mai afectate și ccare sunt acele fenomene conrete are afectează (și cum afectează) aceste comunități? Toate acestea sunt parte dintre întrebările la care vom încerca să răspundem acest semestru.
În cadrul acestui curs vă veți familiariza cu concepte din zona justiției de mediu. Vom discuta despre factorii sociali, politici și economici care facilitează acest fenomen și despre grupurile cele mai afectate.
Vom analiza împreună și efectele pe care injustiția de mediu le are asupra comunităților și indivizilor și modurile în care s-a născut, funcționează și se dezvoltă mișcarea de contracarare a acestui fenomen.
Vom discuta despre instrumentele de cercetare pe care sociologia le folosește pentru cercetare în acest domeniu și cum anume, concret, sociologia contribuie la reducerea inechităților din zona de inegalități de mediu.
Obiective de învățare:
Înțelegerea factorilor politici, sociali și economici în domeniul justiției sociale;
Înțelegerea efectelor pe care încălzirea globală le are asupra cumonităților vulnerabile;
Utilizarea metodologiei de cercetare antropologie angajată.
Cerințele cursului:
Nu există condiții minime de participat la cursuri pentru a intra în examen. Cu toate acestea, mizez pe colaborarea voastră astfel încât cursul să fie unul interactiv, să putem dezbate împreună și să contruim împreună conținuturile.
Evaluarea este compusă din:
1 punct din oficiu
4,5 puncte examenul scris
2,5 puncte activitatea voastră la curs (implicarea în discuțiile din cadrul întâlnirilor)
2 puncte prezentarea (după ce au fost urcate în platforma MT) a unor studii de caz relevante pentru temele de discuții din cadrul cursului și a unor fișe de lectură din textele de seminar (doar fisele de lectură redactate pe template-ul dat de mine sunt contorizate ca teme făcute).
Activitatea de seminar = intervenții relevante în cadrul discuțiilor noastre.
Pregătirea și prezentarea unor studii de caz = în cadrul fiecărui curs vă invit să prezentați, pe rând, un studiu de caz relevant pentru temele de discuție din cadrul cursului. Vom lucra în Microsoft Teams. În mod ideal, studiile de caz vor fi în relație cu temele propuse de mine mai jos, pentru fiecare dintre săptămâni (cu toate acestea, nu e obligatoriu - puteți prezenta și studii de caz care nu sunt în strânsă legătură cu tema de discuție din întâlnirea în care veți prezenta). După prezentare, vom discuta cu toții pe marginea studiului de caz prezentat (în mod ideal, veți modera chiar voi discuția :) ). Pentru fiecare dintre întâlniri vom avea maxim două prezentări (în ordinea înscsrierilor în Mircosoft Teams). Structura prezentărilor este la latitudinea voastră. Important de reținut este că aceste studii de caz pot fi inclusiv subiecte pentru examenul final.
Examenul final = examenul final va fi sub formă de examen scris, cu subiecte de sinteză care vor acoperi temele discutate la curs și studiile de caz prezentate de-a lungul semestrului.
Săptămâna 1:
Discuții organizatorice, prezentarea temelor cursului. Ce este și de ce ne interesează justiția de mediu?
Săptămâna 2:
Anthropocene
Reading: Lidskog, Rolf, and Claire Waterton. "Anthropocene–a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?." Environmental Sociology 2.4 (2016): 395-406.
Săptămâna 3:
Environmental (in)justice & race, class (1)
Reading: Creţan, Remus, et al. "Everyday Roma stigmatization: Racialized urban encounters, collective histories and fragmented habitus." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46.1 (2022): 82-100.
Săptămâna 4:
Environmental (in)justice & race, class (2)
Reading: Cole, L. W., & Foster, S. R. (2001). From the ground up: Environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement (Vol. 34). NYU Press, pg. 23-36
Săptămâna 5:
Environmental (in)justice & neoliberal practices
Săptămâna 6:
Environmental (in)justice research – methodological conundrums & a possible ethical response
Reading: Low, S. M., & Merry, S. E. (2010). Engaged anthropology: diversity and dilemmas: an introduction to supplement 2. Current anthropology, 51(S2), S203-S226.
Săptămâna 7:
Environmental privileges and the fight for environmental justice
Reading: Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, p. 1-30
Săptămâna 8:
Dispossessions and green-fication - state led environmental injustice
Reading. Cole, H. V., Lamarca, M. G., Connolly, J. J., & Anguelovski, I. (2017). Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification. J Epidemiol Community Health, 71(11), 1118-1121.
Săptămâna 9:
Environmental (in)justice & global inequalities
Reading: Shue, Henry. "Global environment and international inequality." International affairs 75.3 (1999): 531-545.
Săptămâna 10:
Water, air, energy – access for the vulnerable (1)
Reading: Andeobu, L., Wibowo, S., & Grandhi, S. (2023). “Informal E-waste recycling practices and environmental pollution in Africa: What is the way forward?”. International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 252, 114192.
Săptămâna 11:
Environmental governance – who decides what for whom?
Reading:
Săptămâna 12:
Urban communities, gender and childhood from environmental justice perspective
Reading: Pearse, R. (2017). Gender and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8(2), e451.
Săptămâna 13:
Final remarks: employing sociology into fixing climate change
Bibliografie opțională:
Environmental (in)justice – anthropocene
Lövbrand, Eva, et al. "Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene." Global Environmental Change 32 (2015): 211-218.
Lidskog, Rolf, and Claire Waterton. "Anthropocene–a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?." Environmental Sociology 2.4 (2016): 395-406.
Houston, Donna. "Crisis is where we live: Environmental justice for the Anthropocene." Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics. Routledge, 2016. 97-108.
Schlosberg, David. "Disruption, community, and resilient governance: environmental justice in the Anthropocene." The Commons in a Glocal World. Routledge, 2019. 54-71.
Environmental (in)justice & race, class, gender
Cooper, Tim. "Recycling modernity: waste and environmental history." History Compass 8.9 (2010): 1114-1125.
Barca, Stefania. "Telling the right story: Environmental violence and liberation narratives." Environment and History 20.4 (2014): 535-546.
Dunajeva, Jekatyerina, and Joanna Kostka. "Racialized politics of garbage: waste management in urban Roma settlements in Eastern Europe." Ethnic and Racial Studies 45.1 (2022): 90-112.
Pearse, R. (2017). Gender and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8(2), e451.
Cole, H. V., Lamarca, M. G., Connolly, J. J., & Anguelovski, I. (2017). Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification. J Epidemiol Community Health, 71(11), 1118-1121.
Creţan, Remus, et al. "Everyday Roma stigmatization: Racialized urban encounters, collective histories and fragmented habitus." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46.1 (2022): 82-100.
Cole, L. W., & Foster, S. R. (2001). From the ground up: Environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement (Vol. 34). NYU Press.
Kabisch, N., Haase, D., & Annerstedt van den Bosch, M. (2016). Adding natural areas to social indicators of intra-urban health inequalities among children: A case study from Berlin, Germany. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(8), 783.
Sze, J. (2006). Noxious New York: The racial politics of urban health and environmental justice. MIT press.
Vann R. Newkirk II, “Trump’s EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real”, The Atlantic, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-trump-administration-finds-that-environmental-racism-is-real/554315/
Environmental (in)justice & neoliberal practices
Change, Global Environmental. "The elephant in the room: Capitalism and global environmental change." Global environmental change 21 (2011): 4-6. (editorial)
Faber, Daniel. "Global capitalism, reactionary neoliberalism, and the deepening of environmental injustices." Capitalism Nature Socialism 29.2 (2018): 8-28.
Bullard, Nicola, and Tadzio Müller. "Beyond the ‘Green Economy’: System change, not climate change?." Development 55.1 (2012): 54-62.
Escobar, Arturo. "Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation." Sustainability science 10 (2015): 451-462.
Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, p. 1-30
Environmental (in)justice & global inequalities
Shue, Henry. "Global environment and international inequality." International affairs 75.3 (1999): 531-545.
Martinez-Alier, Joan, et al. "Is there a global environmental justice movement?." The Journal of Peasant Studies 43.3 (2016): 731-755.
Agyeman, Julian, et al. "Trends and directions in environmental justice: from inequity to everyday life, community, and just sustainabilities." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41.1 (2016): 321-340.
Temper, Leah, Daniela Del Bene, and Joan Martinez-Alier. "Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas." Journal of Political Ecology 22.1 (2015): 255-278.
Andeobu, L., Wibowo, S., & Grandhi, S. (2023). Informal E-waste recycling practices and environmental pollution in Africa: What is the way forward?. International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 252, 114192.
Course objectives:
Climate change is producing global, but also local, changes that can no longer be ignored. Some of these effects are obvious because they affect us directly. Many others, however, happen far away (sometimes physically, sometimes only figuratively). Vulnerable communities are the most affected by climate change, and this is no accident. Despite the fact that vulnerability is an important issue in institutional discourse, public strategies and policies, in practice, these communities often end up in an even more acute state of vulnerability. How do we sociologists look at this phenomenon? Which communities are most affected and what are those concrete phenomena that affect (and how do they affect) these communities? These are some of the questions we will try to answer this semester.
In this course you will familiarize yourself with concepts in the area of environmental justice. We will discuss the social, political and economic factors that facilitate this phenomenon and the groups most affected.
Together we will also analyze the effects that environmental injustice has on communities and individuals and the ways in which the movement to counteract this phenomenon was born, functions and develops.
We will discuss the research tools that sociology uses for research in this area and how, concretely, sociology contributes to reducing inequalities in the area of environmental inequalities.
Learning objectives:
Understand the political, social and economic factors in social justice;
Understanding the effects that global warming is having on vulnerable communities;
Using engaged anthropology research methodology.
Course requirements:
There are no minimum course attendance requirements to enter the exam. However, I am counting on your collaboration so that the course is interactive and we build the content together.
The assessment is composed of:
1 point by default
4,5 points written exam
2,5 points for your activity in the course (involvement in discussions during the meetings)
2 points presentation of case studies relevant to the course discussion topics (after being uploaded to the MT platform) and uploading reading materials (on the template required) in teams.
Seminar activity = relevant interventions in our discussions and going through the texts we will discuss in the meetings. For most meetings we will have academic articles relevant to our meetings to go through. We will discuss them together.
Preparation and presentation of case studies = in each course I invite you to present, in turn, a case study relevant to the topics of discussion in the course. We will work in Microsoft Teams. Ideally, the case studies will be related to the topics I propose below for each of the weeks (however, this is not mandatory - you may also present case studies that are not closely related to the discussion topic in the meeting in which you will present). After the presentation, we will all discuss the case study presented (ideally, you will moderate the discussion yourself :) ). So those of you who wish to present a case study - you should announce it on MT by the end of the week before the week you will present (including, briefly, the topic you have chosen, so that there are no two case studies on the same topic). For each of the meetings we will have a maximum of two presentations (in the order of your Mircosoft Teams entries). The structure of the presentations is up to you. Important to note is that these case studies can also be topics for the final exam.
Final exam = the final exam will be in the form of a written exam, with summary topics covering the topics discussed in the course and the case studies presented throughout the semester.
Week 1:
Organizational matters, presentation of course topics. What is environmental justice and why are we interested in it?
Week 2:
Anthropocene
Reading: Lidskog, Rolf, and Claire Waterton. "Anthropocene–a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?." Environmental Sociology 2.4 (2016): 395-406.
Week 3:
Environmental (in)justice & race, class (1)
Reading: Creţan, Remus, et al. "Everyday Roma stigmatization: Racialized urban encounters, collective histories and fragmented habitus." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46.1 (2022): 82-100.
Week 4:
Environmental (in)justice & race, class (2)
Reading: Cole, L. W., & Foster, S. R. (2001). From the ground up: Environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement (Vol. 34). NYU Press, pg. 23-36
Week 5:
Environmental (in)justice & neoliberal practices
Reading: Change, Global Environmental. "The elephant in the room: Capitalism and global environmental change." Global environmental change 21 (2011): 4-6. (editorial)
Week 6:
Environmental (in)justice research – methodological conundrums & a possible ethical response
Reading: Low, S. M., & Merry, S. E. (2010). Engaged anthropology: diversity and dilemmas: an introduction to supplement 2. Current anthropology, 51(S2), S203-S226.
Week 7:
Environmental privileges and the fight for environmental justice
Reading: Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, p. 1-30
Week 8:
Dispossessions and green-fication - state led environmental injustice
Reading. Cole, H. V., Lamarca, M. G., Connolly, J. J., & Anguelovski, I. (2017). Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification. J Epidemiol Community Health, 71(11), 1118-1121.
Week 9:
Environmental (in)justice & global inequalities
Reading: Shue, Henry. "Global environment and international inequality." International affairs 75.3 (1999): 531-545.
Week 10:
Water, air, energy – access for the vulnerable (1)
Reading: Andeobu, L., Wibowo, S., & Grandhi, S. (2023). “Informal E-waste recycling practices and environmental pollution in Africa: What is the way forward?”. International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 252, 114192.
Week 11:
Environmental governance – who decides what for whom?
Reading:
Week 12:
Urban communities, gender and childhood from environmental justice perspective
Reading: Pearse, R. (2017). Gender and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8(2), e451.
Week 13:
Final remarks: employing sociology into fixing climate change
Optional bibliography:
Environmental (in)justice – Anthropocene
Lövbrand, Eva, et al. "Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene." Global Environmental Change 32 (2015): 211-218.
Lidskog, Rolf, and Claire Waterton. "Anthropocene–a cautious welcome from environmental sociology?." Environmental Sociology 2.4 (2016): 395-406.
Houston, Donna. "Crisis is where we live: Environmental justice for the Anthropocene." Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics. Routledge, 2016. 97-108.
Schlosberg, David. "Disruption, community, and resilient governance: environmental justice in the Anthropocene." The Commons in a Glocal World. Routledge, 2019. 54-71.
Environmental (in)justice & race, class, gender
Cooper, Tim. "Recycling modernity: waste and environmental history." History Compass 8.9 (2010): 1114-1125.
Barca, Stefania. "Telling the right story: Environmental violence and liberation narratives." Environment and History 20.4 (2014): 535-546.
Dunajeva, Jekatyerina, and Joanna Kostka. "Racialized politics of garbage: waste management in urban Roma settlements in Eastern Europe." Ethnic and Racial Studies 45.1 (2022): 90-112.
Pearse, R. (2017). Gender and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8(2), e451.
Cole, H. V., Lamarca, M. G., Connolly, J. J., & Anguelovski, I. (2017). Are green cities healthy and equitable? Unpacking the relationship between health, green space and gentrification. J Epidemiol Community Health, 71(11), 1118-1121.
Creţan, Remus, et al. "Everyday Roma stigmatization: Racialized urban encounters, collective histories and fragmented habitus." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46.1 (2022): 82-100.
Cole, L. W., & Foster, S. R. (2001). From the ground up: Environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement (Vol. 34). NYU Press.
Kabisch, N., Haase, D., & Annerstedt van den Bosch, M. (2016). Adding natural areas to social indicators of intra-urban health inequalities among children: A case study from Berlin, Germany. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(8), 783.
Sze, J. (2006). Noxious New York: The racial politics of urban health and environmental justice. MIT press.
Vann R. Newkirk II, “Trump’s EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real”, The Atlantic, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-trump-administration-finds-that-environmental-racism-is-real/554315/
Environmental (in)justice & neoliberal practices
Change, Global Environmental. "The elephant in the room: Capitalism and global environmental change." Global environmental change 21 (2011): 4-6. (editorial)
Faber, Daniel. "Global capitalism, reactionary neoliberalism, and the deepening of environmental injustices." Capitalism Nature Socialism 29.2 (2018): 8-28.
Bullard, Nicola, and Tadzio Müller. "Beyond the ‘Green Economy’: System change, not climate change?." Development 55.1 (2012): 54-62.
Escobar, Arturo. "Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation." Sustainability science 10 (2015): 451-462.
Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, p. 1-30
Environmental (in)justice & global inequalities
Shue, Henry. "Global environment and international inequality." International affairs 75.3 (1999): 531-545.
Martinez-Alier, Joan, et al. "Is there a global environmental justice movement?." The Journal of Peasant Studies 43.3 (2016): 731-755.
Agyeman, Julian, et al. "Trends and directions in environmental justice: from inequity to everyday life, community, and just sustainabilities." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41.1 (2016): 321-340.
Temper, Leah, Daniela Del Bene, and Joan Martinez-Alier. "Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas." Journal of Political Ecology 22.1 (2015): 255-278.
Andeobu, L., Wibowo, S., & Grandhi, S. (2023). Informal E-waste recycling practices and environmental pollution in Africa: What is the way forward?. International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 252, 114192.