Envirnoment, Sustainability and Social Movements
Objectives
At the end of the UC students should be familiar with the main debates in the area of environment and sustainability and their impact on cities and be able to autonomouslyreflect on the topics addressed during the semester.
General characterization
Code
02105858
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Iva Maria Miranda Pires
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Harper, K., & Afonso, A. I. (2016). Cultivating civic ecology: a Photovoice study with urban gardeners in Lisbon, Portugal. Anthropology in Action, 23 (1), 6-13.
Michaelowa K.; Michaelowa, A., (2012). Negotiating climate change. Climate Policy, 12(5): 527-533.To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2012.693393
Godfray H.C.J.; Crut E I.R.; Haddad L.; Lawrence D.; Muir J. F.; Nisbett N.; Pretty J.; Robinson S.; Toulmin C.; Whiteley R. (2010). The future of the global food system.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365, pp. 2769-2777.
Schiavoni, C. (2017). The contested terrain of food sovereignty construction: toward a historical, relational and interactive approach, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 44:1, 1-32,DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2016.1234455
Thomas Dax & Michael Fischer (2018) An alternative policy approach to rural development in regions facing population decline, European Planning Studies, 26:2, 297-315,DOI:10.1080/09654313.2017.1361596
Teaching method
The teaching-learning process articulates theoretical sessions of knowledge transmission, presentation of concrete research experiences, practical sessions of debate, anddiscussion of projects as well as autonomous work of the students.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Methodologies - - Elaboration of a final written work framed in one of the topics of the discipline (individual)(70%), - Presentation and discussion in class of individual written work(30%)
Subject matter
1. Environment, sustainability and ecological problems
2. Social movements and environmental resistance
a. Man and the environment: anthropocene and capitalocene
b. Environmental Movements and Environmental Conflict
c. Urban networks and activist practices
3. Case studies:
a. Climate change and climate justice movements
b. The future of food, food sovereignty and food waste. Movements for food sovereignty and fair trade
c. Low density territories and their challenges. Neo-rural movements
d. Activism, right to the city and urban resistance. Urban gardens.