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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2019 |
Registration ID | ENVSH309A001 |
Course Title | People, Place, and Collaborative Research in the Urban Environment |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Environmental Studies |
Instructor | Moses,Joshua |
Times and Days | TF 12:10pm-02:55pm
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Room Location | FRDCTR1 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2505 Taught in Philadelphia as part of the Tri-Co Philly Program, this transdisciplinary, Philadelphia-based, course focuses on critical urban environmental issues. With the blunt challenges of global warming and inequality in mind, we seek to apply theory to the practice of engagement with ongoing urban struggles. Collaborative environmental work with urban communities is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on anthropology, urban planning, public health, ecology, and geography. Themes will include the intersections of race, class, and gender; environmental justice; rethinking bioregionalism; urban environmental social movements; urban farming/gardening; brownfields; radical municipalism; tactical urbanism; transformative education; Afrofuturism; action research; and ideas of place, home and nature. The course will focus on the ethics and practice of community collaboration and community-based research in environmental work in urban settings. Students will work directly with community groups, developing relationships, and collaborating on research relevant to their efforts. As the course title indicates, the arts of collaboration—on multiple levels—are central to this course. Readings include: Joan Iverson Nassauer, Roger Sanjek, Peter Berg, Donald Schon, Anne Rademencher, Gregory Bateson, Jane Jacobs, Grace Lee Boggs Meredith Minkler, Baltimore Ecosystem Study, adrienne maree brown, Davydd Greenwod, Miles Horton; Eve Tuck, Kim Fortun, Julian Agyeman.; Crosslisted: Anthropology, Environmental Studies; Enrollment Limit: 15. Priority in registration will be given to students participating in the Philly Program. Remaining seats are available to other Tri-Co students, by lottery, if demand exceeds remaining spaces in the course. If you are interested in the Philly Program, you must fill out the application (https://www.haverford.edu/tri-co-philly-program/student-application), which is due on Friday, March 29 at 5 pm. This program includes registering for the program’s core course, Fight for #PhlEd: Urban Educational and Environmental Justice (EDUC 067), and one of the following three elective courses: Environmental Justice: Theory and Action (ENVS 035/POLS 043B); Place, People and Collaborative Research in Philadelphia (ANTH H309/ENVS H309); or Math Modeling and Sustainability (MATH B295). You will be notified by Monday, April 8 if you have been accepted into the program. Those not participating in the Philly program do not need to complete the application and can simply pre-register for the course. Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: SO, B) |
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