Environmental Insurgency, Dispossession, and Slavery in Latin America

Undergraduate

Exploration of when, how, and why processes of dispossession and enslavement have been shaped by environmental insurgency amidst European colonization of Latin America. This lecture course emphasizes on correlated human and nature interventions in the shaping of colonial societies and the disputes over domesticated environments in Latin America by Indigenous peoples and Afro-descended communities.Therefore, this course adopts various scales of analysis, from local and regional to hemispheric, to approach key themes of colonial Latin American history (15th-19th centuries) from an environmental lens to adress policies and social mobilization over colonization, dispossession, enslavement, environmental degradation, but also adaptive usages of emancipatory technical knowledge to navigate exploitation and unfreedom regimes. HU 0 Course cr HTBA