[PeDAGoG] Fwd: [REDlistserve] Starts next week: Legacies of Environmental Radicalism (10 week class, Inst. for Social Ecology)

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Subject: 	[REDlistserve] Starts next week: Legacies of Environmental 
Radicalism (10 week class, Inst. for Social Ecology)
Date: 	Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:44:08 -0400
From: 	Brian Tokar <briant at pshift.com>
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Please help spread the word and encourage folks to /register now/, so we 
can meet the threshold for the class to run this cycle: 
https://social-ecology.org/wp/courses/legacies-of-environmental-radicalism/. 
College credit is available (either graduate or undergraduate) for those 
who are interested, through Vermont State University’s Center for 
Schools (additional fees apply). Please stay tuned to social-ecology.org 
<http://social-ecology.org/> for updates and additional fall classes, 
including our acclaimed 10-week overview class, Ecology, Democracy and 
Utopia, starting in mid-September. You can also sign up for our 
occasional e-newsletter to receive ongoing announcements of classes and 
special events.

  Legacies of Environmental Radicalism

/Begins August 29, class sessions on Tuesdays from 7 pm to 8:30 pm US 
Eastern time for ten weeks. *Instructor: Brian Tokar. *Via Zoom./

Over nearly six decades, radical ecologists with widely varied outlooks 
and philosophies have begun to transform the field – frequently a tool 
of colonialism and corporate resource management in its earlier years – 
and developed modes of thought and action that are aimed toward the 
radical transformation of society. This ten-week class will examine that 
evolution in depth, and illustrate how social ecologists and many others 
have helped advance the story of environmental radicalism from the 1960s 
to the present.

We will explore a variety of perspectives both in theory and praxis, 
many of which were influenced by social ecology and also helped shape 
its own development. We will also examine recent trends toward 
nihilistic and apocalyptic views in the environmental movement and how 
social ecology and a broadly internationalist perspective can help us 
reach beyond those tendencies.

This course aims to offer a comprehensive overview of many philosophical 
and activist
approaches that have shaped environmental radicalism from the 1960s to 
the present, such as social ecology, deep ecology, environmental 
justice, ecofeminism, ecosocialism, animal liberation and more. We will 
examine several of these perspectives in depth, drawing from both 
historical and contemporary sources and a wide range of unique examples. 
How have each of these perspectives broadened our understanding of human 
societies and our relationships with the natural world? What modes of 
thought and action have proved effective in challenging a status quo 
that tends to relegate ecological concerns to the margins of politics? 
How has mainstream environmentalism evolved in response to these radical 
challenges, and how can we move beyond despair in response to current 
ecological and political challenges?

*Specific topics will include:*

Early environmental outlooks: From colonization to revolution

The outlook and contributions of social ecology

Ecofeminism and environmental justice

Ecosocialism and ecological Marxism

Animal rights and animal liberation

Origins of environmental direct action

What is deep ecology?

Eco-nihilism: Sabotage, anti-civilization and state repression

Critical international perspectives

Is an ecological future still possible?

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Brian Tokar
Institute for Social Ecology
P.O. Box 48
Plainfield, VT 05667
social-ecology.org <http://www.social-ecology.org/>

/Latest book: //https://www.routledge.com///Climate-Justice-/ 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>
/and-Community-Renewal-/ 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>/Resistance-and- 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>//Grassroots- 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>/
/Solutions 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>/// 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>//Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491 
<https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-and-Community-Renewal-Resistance-and-Grassroots-Solutions/Tokar-Gilbertson/p/book/9780367228491>/

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