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Winter 2004
This information effective for Winter 2004. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Politics
[POLI-160B] [POLI-174] [POLI-214]
160B. Global Organization
Instructor: Annette Clear
Course Description:
This is an upper division core course for international relations. It addresses how and to what extent global organizations are changing the international system, increasingly creating a global system. It examines the impact of multilateral institutions, such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank on the domestic politics and foreign policies of member states. It also explores regional organizations in various geographic areas, such as Europe, Africa, and Latin America, but with an emphasis on Asia. The final segment of this course looks at nonstate actors, including private corporations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and transnational networks, examining how their existence and activities are transforming global politics. The overriding concern of this course is to discern macro-historical changes in global politics by exploring how these global organizations are affecting the role and primacy of the state.
174. Global Environmental Politics
Instructor: Ronnie Lipschutz
Course Description:
This is an upper-division course focused on the global environmental "problematique" and the ways in which it is being played out in a variety of political and policy arenas. The course is intended to provide students with insights into the following:
- The political structure and context of transnational environmental issues;
- The intergovernmental mechanisms established for addressing problems in the atmospheric "global commons," such as oceans and climate change;
- The treatment of environmental problems that occur in many different places but are not necessarily linked, such as biodiversity and environmental justice;
- Transnational environmental activity, including that through social movements, non-governmental organizations, and corporate actors;
- Domestic environmental politics in a comparative context in several different countries.
The syllabus for Spring 2001 (which will be changed for Winter 2004) can be found at:
214.
Thinking Green
Instructor:
Ronnie Lipschutz
Phone: 459-3275; e-mail: rlipsch@ucsc.edu
Draft
Course Description:
This is a graduate seminar in environmental and ecological politics, ethics, and political economy, on Green political thought and practice. It is intended to permit examination of the question: What does it mean to "think Green"? In it, we shall examine the origins and content of ecological politics, ethics and political economy, and ask whether they offer a "realistic" alternative to neo-liberalism and other political ideologies. The workload for the graduate section is substantial. In addition to intensive reading, students will be expected to write a substantial and substantive paper, of publishable quality, that analyzes and critiques some issue raised by the readings and draws on additional materials, as well.
Readings
(all texts are on reserve at McHenry Library: *
indicates selected chapters)
- Robyn
Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory (SUNY, 1992)
- John H.
Meyer, Political Nature (MIT Press, 2001)
- Thom Kuehls,
Beyond Sovereign Territory (Minnesota, 1996)
- *David
Harvey, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference (Blackwell,
1996)
- *David
Harvey, Spaces of Hope (UC Press, 2000)
- Timothy
Luke, Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology (Illinois, 1999)
- Neil Evernden,
The Social Creation of Nature (Johns Hopkins, 1992)
- *Anna
Peterson, Being Human (UC Press, 2001)
- Will Wright,
Wild Knowledge (Minnesota, 1992)
- Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (Routledge, 1993)
Syllabus
Week 1 (3/27):
No class meeting
Week 2 (4/1-3): What is "Thinking Green?"
Eckersley, ch. 1-2; Luke, Introduction & ch. 1; Meyer, Introduction
& ch. 1
Week 3 (4/8-10):
Constructing nature & culture
Peterson, ch. 1-3; Evernden, Part I; Kuehls, Introduction & ch. 1;
Plumwood, ch. 2
Week 4 (4/15-17):
Making nature political
Harvey (1996), Part II; Meyer, ch. 4-6; Kuehls, ch. 2-4; Plumwood, ch.
6
Week 5 (4/22-24):
Knowing nature
Wright; Plumwood, ch 3-5
Week 6 (4/29-5/1):
Women and nature
Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto."; Plumwood, ch. 1 & Conclusion
Week 7 (5/6-8):
Liberalism & green thought
Luke, ch 2-3; Meyer, ch. 7
Week 8 (5/13-15):
Conservatism & green thought
Peterson, ch. 7-8; Evernden, Part II; Luke, ch. 4-5; Plumwood, ch. 7
Week 9 (5/20-22):
Humanism & green thought
Luke, ch. 7-8; Eckersley, ch. 4-7; Harvey (2000), ch. 10-11.
Week 10 (5/27-29): Student presentations