ANTH 332
Environmental Justice
Spring 2016
Division II
Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
ENVI 332 / GBST 332 / JLST 332
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
This course explores the concept of justice and the ways in which interested parties have defined that term in relation to man-made environmental hazards. We will analyze episodes of environmental injustice recounted in ethnography, literature, and historical works. To familiarize ourselves with the remedies available to people disproportionately affected by environmental perils, we will read domestic and international legal doctrine as well as documents produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Our initial readings will include philosophical treatises on justice as well as texts outlining the spatial dimensions of social inequality. In the United States, our case studies will range from air quality in the South Bronx to water pollution in New Jersey and West Virginia. Internationally, we will study the effects of oil extraction in the Niger Delta as well as climate change adaptation in nations that emit relatively little carbon dioxide. Throughout the course, we will discuss how lawyers and the communities they represent mobilize scientific evidence to achieve desired ends. Simultaneously, we will consider the extent to which otherwise marginalized people participate in environmental law- and policymaking. This course satisfies the EDI requirement, by critically examining the unequal exposure of different social groups to environmental harms.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3343
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3343
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
one 15- to 20-page research paper, an in-class presentation, one 6-page essay, and three 1-page response papers
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
Anthropology and Sociology majors, ENVI majors/concentrators and Justice and Law concentrators
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ANTH 332 Division II ENVI 332 Division II GBST 332 Division II JLST 332 Division II
ANTH 332 Division II ENVI 332 Division II GBST 332 Division II JLST 332 Division II
Attributes:
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
ENVI Environmental Policy
ENVP PE-A Group Electives
ENVP PE-B Group Electives
ENVP PTL-A Group Electives
ENVP SC-A Group Electives
ENVP SC-B Group Electives
JLST Interdepartmental Electives
PHLH Nutrition,Food Security+Environmental Health
ENVI Environmental Policy
ENVP PE-A Group Electives
ENVP PE-B Group Electives
ENVP PTL-A Group Electives
ENVP SC-A Group Electives
ENVP SC-B Group Electives
JLST Interdepartmental Electives
PHLH Nutrition,Food Security+Environmental Health
Class Grid
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ANTH 332 - 01 (S) SEM Environmental Justice
ANTH 332 - 01 (S) SEM Environmental JusticeDivision II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity InitiativeNatalie B. VenaTR 11:20 am - 12:35 pm
Greylock D3343
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