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BLCK 320 Black Environmentalism: A Global South Perspective Units: 3.00
This course examines the historical and contemporary environmental issues facing the global South today, including climate and environmental change, resource management (resource extraction and habitat conservation), toxic waste dumping, informal recycling economies, environmental (in)justice, etc. through an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on literature from Racial Capitalism, Environmental Studies, Political Ecology, Black Eco-poetics, Black Studies, and Geographies, and more broadly, using case studies from the global South and works from global South scholars.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 3 or above) or permission of the Department.
Exclusion BLCK 380/3.0 (Topic Title: Black Environmentalism: A Global South Perspective - Winter 2023, Winter 2024).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Explain key theoretical approaches and concepts in the field of Black Environmentalism and Ecologies.
- Describe the relationship between race, colonialism, capitalism, and how it leads to the inequitable distributions of environmental harms and/or externalities on communities of colour.
- Reflect on how the histories and lived experiences of black communities in the global south have been shaped by the processes of racism, colonialism, and uneven global development.
- Compare how culture informs one's values and beliefs on issues of environmental injustice and anti-black racism prior to and after this course.
- Communicate a key concept from the course (i.e., environmental racism) in plain language format to a nonacademic audience to practice transferrable skills beyond the class.
- Demonstrate competency in, and a commitment to equity-related principles, e.g., anti-black racism by exploring their own relationships to power, and privilege within their personal and professional interactions.
- Practice effective time management techniques to improve concentration and productivity.