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This module explores the complex and contested knowledge practices at the heart of contemporary environmental science and politics, examining how social scientists have contributed to understanding the processes of environmental knowledge production, consumption and articulation. The module explores these issues through examining the relationships between nature, environment, and government; new governance approaches to resources; notions of waste and repair; urban and rural environmental politics; and the dynamics of environmental knowledge controversies.
The course aims:
- To introduce students to the social and geographical study of environmental knowledge
- To foster understanding of a range of contemporary approaches to the study of environmental knowledge such as through the risk society, co-production, expertise, actor-network theory, political ecology, local and indigenous knowledge, and techniques of counter-mapping and controversy mapping.
- To encourage critical understanding and reflection on a series of key issues in the study of environmental knowledge.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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