SUST-312P War Ecologies
3 Credits
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SUST-312P-01
Wednesday
9:00 am â 11:50 am
Main Building, 301
War has immense environmental effects, and the environment itself shapes the course of war. This course considers how war creates new ecologies, how militarism and science work together to produce enduring environmental changes, and how war ecologies can be both destructive and reparative. Students will explore examples such as nuclear weapons testing, chemical warfare, ecocide, greenwashing, and the making of colonial laboratories. In doing so, they will gain a better understanding of how material and affective relations of power, ongoing conflicts, and organized violence shape the environment and relationships to it.