PLSI-3464 Environmental Political Theory

Explores how key political concepts, categories, and concerns can be extended to encompass the more-than-human world, exploring concepts of representation, the social contract, agency, voice, sovereignty, governance, democracy, and power as applied to the environment, non-human animals, and nature. Analyzing points of alignment and places of friction for a politics of the morethan- human world, this course assesses how changed modes of human subjectivity, embodiment, affect, and relationship may be important parts of the politics of addressing climate change.