ANTH 380 - Energy in Crisis (3)

What constitutes an energy crisis? Our ways of life - our relationship to our cars, cities, industries, and governments - are shaped by our ability to harness, distribute, and consume energy commodities. However, the belief in supply shortages, the wildly fluctuating prices of energy markets, anti-democratic politics, environmental degradation, and climate change force us to question the sustainability of our present energy usage. This course will explore how tensions within these processes manifest throughout energy networks in ways that both create possibilities for and limitations to social change, the environment, democracy, and economic development. In this course, we will trace how energy connects us to communities, the media, corporations and the state, making an energy crisis something that is intimately experienced in our daily lives. (Fall)

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 103077
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: ANTH 211 or SOCY 101 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.