DALE JAMIESON - CARLETON COLLEGE - SPRING TERM 97
ENTS 370
Time: 12:30-2:15 T Th
Place: LIBR 306
Instructor: Dale Jamieson, Willis 415 (office), 4121 (phone), Djamieso@Carleton.Edu (E-mail)
Office Hours:2:30-4 T Th or by appointment
Environmental Justice, Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1995 (no author).
Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict, Zed Books, 1993, Wolfgang Sachs, editor
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, Island Press, 1993, Robert Gottlieb.
Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995, Laura Westra and Peter Wenz, editors.
In addition, there is a packet on reserve in the library.
From North Carolina to India concerns about environmental justice have been raised in recent years. In this seminar we will analyze these concerns, and try to develop a conceptual framework that can be applied to local, national, and international issues. We will draw on a wide variety of sources that concern the nature of justice and the characters of environmental benefits and harms, as well as those that directly address movements for environmental justice.
The main objectives of this course are (1) to improve your ability to think critically, read closely, and to argue well about issues of environmental justice: (2) to introduce you to the history, sociology, and philosophy of the environmental justice movement; and (3) to develop some case studies of what has been regarded as infractions of environmental justice; and (4) to aid you in arriving at your own rational and clear-minded views about the matters under discussion.
Requirements: Students working in pairs will be required to develop two cases: one international, and the other domestic. These presentations of about 2,500 words should describe the facts of the case, identify the values at stake on all sides, and issue some recommendations. In addition to writing up these cases, students will be expected to submit a detailed outline and bibliography, and to discuss and present them in class. There will also be an exam of some sort. The due-dates for these requirements will be set by mutual consent. I will also expect students to prepare for, attend, and participate in every class.
I care deeply about the issues that we will be discussing this term and I want you to care deeply about them as well. I will do everything that I can to get you to work hard on these issues and to produce the best work of which you are capable. Be warned that sometimes this involves goading as well as guiding.
4.1--Course Introduction (varieties of justice, create teams, establish due-dates, discuss research methods)
4.3--The Environmental Movement: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots (Gottlieb Part I)
4.8--The Contemporary Movements: Gottlieb Part II
4.10--Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class: Gottlieb Part III
4.15--Theories of Justice—Utilitarianism: WW 57-71, Hare, Rawls (on reserve)
4.17--Theories of Justice—Egalitarianism: Rawls, Nozick (on reserve)
4.22--Theories of Justice--:Libertarianism: Nozick, Singer (on reserve) 4.24--Critique of Conventional Theories of Justice: Jamieson, Young (on reserve)
4.29--First discussion of domestic environmental justice cases 5.1--Norman Myers on Global Environmental Justice: Sachs (on reserve)
5.6--Rio and Sustainability: Sachs Parts I and II
5.8--Global versus Local: Sachs Parts III and IV
5.13--Racism in Africa: WWPart III; EJ 100-116
5.15--Discussion of international environmental justice cases
5.20--Domestic Environmental Justice: Economics versus Race: EJ 1-59
5.22--Racism in North America: EJ 60-69; WW 41-55, 75-159
5.27--The Role of Government: EJ 70-99; WW 3-39
5.29--Catch-Up
6.3--Final presentation of cases