Indigenous Ecologies and Climate Change

Course Details

  • Acronym AIS 385
  • Quarter Spring 2020
  • Credits 5
  • Meeting Times TTh 1030-1220
  • Location SMI 309
  • Fullfills Climate Minor Application Option

Course Description

Diverse ways in which Indigenous peoples around the world understand, experience, and are responding to contemporary global climate change. Topics include: the politics of traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous environmental justice movements, community-scale climate “adaptation” practice, as each is related to Indigenous health and wellbeing, cultural continuance, and political sovereignty.