No Planet B: Class, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice

3 credits · Undergraduate

How do old and new environmentalist movements relate to social justice struggles and other collective actors? Why do they emerge in some countries and not in others? How do environmentalist groups shape political decisions at the local, national, and transnational level? What differences and commonalities exist in environmentalist movements and their forms of contention across Italy and Europe? To address these questions, this course will look at environmental contentious politics in Europe and Italy, drawing on debates developed in political economy, social movement studies, environmental sociology, political ecology, and labour environmentalism.