HIST 157 PZ -Our Extractive World

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Our Extractive World: Resources, Capitalism, and the Anthropocene This course is about exploring the lives of those?often located in the Global South?who make a world based on subterranean resources possible. In exploring these subterranean lifeworlds we will traverse the coal mines of Appalachia, the offshore oil rigs lining both sides of the Atlantic, theuranium mines of Central Africa and Central Asia, among others. Each week we will discuss a present-day conflict, crisis, or dilemma over environmental resources, and then we will work to collectively understand the history and context that produced that situation. Our overarching goal will be tounderstand the social, political, and cultural conditions that shape our resource-dominated global economy.

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

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