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SOCI 450: Environmental Sociology (Rev. 2 and 3) Report a Broken Link

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Ashnan Films (producers), Hijacked Future, 2009, 43-minute. Reproduced with permission of David Springbett.

Unit 1

Required Readings

Foster, John Bellamy, “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology,” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 2, September 1999, pp. 366-405.
Goldman, Michael and Rachel A. Schurman, “Closing the ‘Great Divide’: New Social Theory on Society and Nature,” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 26, 2000, pp. 563-584.
Murphy, Joseph, “Ecological Modernisation,” Geoforum, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2000, pp. 1-8.
Supplementary Materials

Recommended Websites
Green Economics

and http://www.greeneconomics.net/
Thomas Berry, Cultural Historian and Geologian, Dies at 94.
Kennedy Jr., Robert F., “Crimes Against Nature,” Rolling Stone, December 11, 2003.
Ecological footprint calculator: http://www.myfootprint.org/
Ecological footprint calculator: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/
Bullard, Robert D., Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
Jhally, Sut, “Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse,” in Anderson, Robin and Lance Strate (eds.), Critical Studies in Media Commercialism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 27-39.
United Nations. 2018. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf.
How to Boil a Frog
Grassroots international Agrofuels Violate the Human Right to Food 
“Fuelling Destruction in Latin America” by Friends of the Earth, 2008.
Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report
The Oakland Institute’s “Voice from Africa” Report:
La Via Campesina
The Greenbelt Movement
Modern Diplomacy Fair Trade – an alternative made to Aid and Free Trade?

Unit 2

Required Readings
Charman, Karen, “Ecuador First to Grant Nature Constitutional Rights,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 131-132.

Unit 3

Required Readings
Charman, Karen, “False Starts and False Solutions: Current Approaches in Dealing with Climate Change,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 29-47.
Bond, Patrick, “The State of the Global Carbon Trade Debate,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 89-106.

Unit 5

Required Readings
Altieri, Miguel A., “Small farms as a planetary ecological asset: Five key reasons why we should support the revitalization of small farms in the Global South,” Food First, Posted May 9th, 2008.