R SOC 271
The Politics of Food and Natural Resources
Winter 2019
Topics
- To employ a Sociological perspective to the study of food and natural resources politics
- To provide the students with an opportunity to develop critical thinking and writing skills
Readings
- Gaventa, J. (2006). Finding the spaces for change: A power Analysis. IDS Bulletin (37) 6: pp.23-33
- Smil V (2010) ‘Science, energy, ethics, and civilization.’ Ch 35 in Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology and Conciousness, C.Y. Chiao et al . eds. Cambridge University Press. Pp 709-729
- Pellizzoni L. (2018) Joining People with Things. The Commons and Environmental Sociology. In: Boström M., Davidson D. (eds) Environment and Society. Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
- Watts, M. (2008) ‘Blood Oil: The anatomy of a petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 52: 18-38
- Gramling R. and Freudenburg W.R. (2011) ‘A century of Macondo: United States energy
- Van Assche, K., Beunen, R., & Duineveld, M. (2014). Evolutionary Paths. Ch 4. In Evolutionary Governance Theory (pp. 29-33). Springer
- Van Assche K., Beunen R., & Duineveld M. (2015) An Overview of EGT’s Main Concepts Ch2 In: Beunen R., Van Assche K., Duineveld M. (eds) Evolutionary Governance Theory. Springer. Pp 19-33
- Gupta, J. 2016. WIREs Climate Change; 7:192–210. doi: 10.1002/wcc.388
- Guarín, A. (2013), The Value of Domestic Supply Chains: Producers, Wholesalers, and Urban Consumers in Colombia. Development Policy Review, 31: 511-530. doi:10.1111/dpr.12023
- Smedshaug, C. Anton. (2010). ‘Ideas about agriculture, trade and society through changing times’ Ch 3 In: Feeding the world in the 21st century: a historical analysis of agriculture and society. London: Anthem Press. Pp. 91-114
Winter 2018
Topics
- To employ a Sociological perspective to the study of food and natural resources politics
- To provide the students with an opportunity to develop critical thinking and writing skills
- Introduction to the Politics of Environment and Democracy in the 21st Century
- A complex systems perspective on complex problems
Readings
- Friedrichs, Chapter 1, pp. 1-12
- Gaventa, J. (2006). Finding the spaces for change: A power Analysis. IDS Bulletin (37) 6: pp.23-33
- Smil V (2010) ‘Science, energy, ethics, and civilization.’ Ch 35 in Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness, R.Y. Chiao et al. eds., Cambridge University Press. Pp. 709-729
- Friedrichs, Chapter 4, pp. 77-106
- Murphy DJ and Hall CAS (2010) ‘Year in Review—EROI or energy return on (energy) invested.’ Ann New York Acad of Sci (1185): 102-18
- Watts, M. (2008) ‘Blood Oil: The anatomy of a petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 52: 18-38
- Gramling R and Freudenburg WR (2011) ‘A century of Macondo: United States energy policy and the BP blowout catastrophe.’ American Behavioral Scientist DOI: 10.1177/0002764211413115
- Friedrichs, Chapter 2, pp. 13-46
- Friedrichs, Chapter 3, pp. 47-76
- Friedrichs, Chapter 5, pp. 107-140
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- R SOC 271 POLITICS OF FOOD AND NATRL RES · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- 2018-Winter-R-SOC-271-LECTURE-B1 ↗2018
- 2019-Winter-R-SOC-271-LECTURE-B1 ↗2019
- Partial automated extraction.
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.