EA 163 PZ -Chemical Pollution & Social Life

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Chemical Pollution and Social Life The present is marked by a ubiquitous exposure to different sorts of toxic chemicals: from disasters that affect entire communities to the built environments in which we live and work, from the traces of pesticides in our food to the worldwide disrupting effects of oil production. This course will introduce different perspectives and frameworks to think through the interactions between processes of chemical pollution and social life. What forms of analysis and concepts have been developed by social scientists in order to address the interactions between processes of chemical pollution and social worlds? How is it possible to account for the agency of non-human chemical elements in human social processes and human lives?

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

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