Topics for 2024
This year, the course will be taught by Marta Mboka Tveit and Patrick Brock, and focus on the nexus between colonialism and ecology, with special attention to Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. From situated viewpoints we critically examine extractivism, developmentalism and progress-thinking. Then we turn to new pathways and possibilities, examining recent social-ecological movements, such as Buen Vivir and the African Water Commons Collective, that can be called both anti-colonial and environmentalist, and possible strategies for imagining ecologies otherwise from the Global South.