Postgraduate - UnitAPG5804 - Environmental revolutions

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Human Geography
Offered	Clayton First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Haripriya Rangan

Notes

Previously coded IDA5130

Synopsis

This unit explores the ways in which ideas about nature, science, and human action have revolutionised theories, practices and politics of international development and global environmental change. It explores the major historical and contemporary debates in the natural and social sciences concerning nature and human agency , reflexive modernity, environmental risk and uncertainty, biopolitics, and emergence of current thinking about the relationships between post-humanity, techno-science and nature.

Outcomes

Students who have regularly attended the seminar each week and fulfilled all requirements during the semester will:

understand the history of ideas and conceptions of the environment;
understand key theoretical perspectives regarding changing relationships between science, nature, and human subjectivity; and
have critically analysed the genealogies of contemporary debates about environmental crises, ecological change, and biopolitics of development.

Assessment

Written work: 75% (4000 words)
Oral presentation: 25%

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Haripriya Rangan

Workload requirements

One 3-hour seminar per week