Politics 373 - Political Ecology of Latin America

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Whitman College

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not offered 2008-09 This course examines the environmental politics of Latin America. It focuses on struggles over different natural resources - water, land, minerals, forests, and even raw genetic material - with an eye toward understanding how these struggles affect environmental health and human livelihoods. Topics include water politics, rainforest deforestation, bioprospecting, mining, ecotourism, "sustainable development", rapid urbanization, race, gender, and environmental justice movements. In the end, it uses these cases to explore the cultural politics of nature-society relations in Latin America by asking how our very conceptions of what constitutes "nature", "resources", and "the environment" are produced, and how those categories themselves are sites of material and symbolic struggle. Prere quisites: Consent of instructor based upon previous coursework on Latin America in any dis

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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