NAME OF COURSE: Medioambiente y justicia social: nuevos caminos contra el cambio climático América Latina

TEACHING: Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya (pedro.achondo@pucv.cl)

HOURS: 60 class hours

CLASS SCHEDULE: TBA

CREDITS: 04

Course description:  The climate crisis has been presented as the most important and urgent challenge of our century, but the ecological problem cannot be understood or addressed in isolation from othe topics of life on the planet. One of them corresponds to the abysmal social inequality. Hence, many authors speak of the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor as two great manifestation of the suffering of life. Social justice has been one of the permanent challenges contemporary societies and not only in Latin America. In this course we will deal with different dimensions of the social crisis understood from the point of view of injustices in its diversity or manifestations and its links with the environmental crisis. The cry of the planet and the suffer of human communities can be understood as a single big problem that requires creative solidarity, resistance and collective action to design livable future.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course the student should be able to critically discuss about -Major socio-environmental problems in Latin America - Different ways of understanding social justi - Concepts and practices related to the design of alternative territori Contents - Concepts related to socio-environmental thinking in Latin America - Social justice and territorial justice - Importance of social and environmental imagination - Climate change and alternatives in Latin America - The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. - Integral Ecology.

Course units

Thematic unit 1: Introduction to the Climate Change, a Latin-American persp Global Warming, Climate Change and others. The idea of the Anthropocene. Critics from th Global South. Humans and nature: The world of complex interconnections. Complex relat between society and environment. Decisions and challenges. Optimism or pessimism? Where t start? Where to hide? Possible actions: education, information, ethics, politics and influence.

Thematic unit 2: Social justice and territorial justice: The c Spacial turn, the concept of territory. The Latin-American thought about the territory. Hybrid spaces, community and resistances. Spatial justice, the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.

Thematic unit 3: The importance of social and environmental imaginati Ontologies, Designing livable futures, Imagination and limits for human life. More-than-human relations, vitalistic materialism, post-humanism. The idea of the pluriverse, a specule concept from Latinoamérica 

Thematic unit 4: New paths in Latin America, where? Who? How Resistance, community and power. Design the future, Where? Who? In which directions Against what? Knowing some local solutions. Ways to reimagine the life and the world. The idea of Integral Ecology.

Field Trip (to confirme place and experience). 

Grading Two essays …………………………………………60%

Field Trip ………………………………………………………20%

Participation weekly workshops ……………………….20%

Course Policies

Attendance is require

Punctuality is mandatory

All assignments must be turned in via the professor´s mail (pedro.achondo@pucv.cl)
You may use your preferred citation style, provided it is applied consistently. However, the AP citation is considered appropriate for academic work. You can find the guidelines in: ht www.awelu.lu.se/referencing/quick-guides-to-reference-styles/apa About Plagiarism: Acts of plagiarism, including reproducing text from websites and paraphrasing from another source (including other students) without proper citation, will lead to hars consequences such as failure to receive credit for the course.
 

Bibliography for each thematic uni Thematic unit 1: Introduction to the Climate Change, a Latin-American persp Mansilla Quiñones, P.; Melín Pehuén, M., y Alberto Curamil Millanao. (2023). Confronting coloniality o n a t u r e : S t r a te g i e s to r e co v e r w a te r a n d l i fe i n m a p u c h e te r r i to r y . D e c e m b e r 2023,GEOFORUM 148(2):103922. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103922 Ojeda D., y Caicedo, A. (2023). Intervention Symposium—“Plantation Methodologies: Questioning S Space, and Subjecthood”. Ibarra, T., et al. (2024). While clearing the forests: The social–ecological memory of trees in the Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02008 Ulloa, A. (2023). Aesthetics of green dispossession: From coal to wind extraction in La Guajira, Colomb Journal of Political Ecology. https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id Ulloa, A. (2017). Indigenous Knowledge Regarding Climate in Colombia. https://www.academia.ed 41700042/Ulloa_Astrid_2019_Indigenous_Knowledge_Regarding_Climate_in_Colombia Tsing, A., Swanson, H., Gan, E. y Bubandt, N. (Editors) (2017). Arts of living on a damaged planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Moore, J. (ed). (2016). Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism. PM Press. Armiero, M. (2021). Wasteocene, Stories from the Global Dump. Cambridge University Press. Thematic unit 2: Social justice and territorial justice: The Pope Francis (2015). Laudato Si’. On care for our common home. Boff, L. (2002). Ecology: Cry of the earth, cry of the poor. Orbis Book Guevara, G. (2023). Triespacialidad e injusticia espacial en la realización de derechos económicos sociales: análisis de barreras espaciales de acceso a programas públicos en Chile. Tesis Doctoral Universidad de Chile. Podcast from: https://networkingwithplants.org/the-podcast-2 Thematic unit 3: The importance of social and environmental imaginat Vidalou, J-B. (2018). We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle. Polity Powers, R. (2018). The Overstory. Random House International De la Cadena, M. & Blaser, M. (eds). (2018). A world of many worlds. Duke University Press, London. Introduction: Pluriverse, Proposals for a World of Many Worlds, p.1-22. Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. Capítulo 2: Tentacular Thinking, p.30-57. Cap 4: Making Kin, p.99-103. Escobar, A. (2020). Pluriversal Politics. The Real and the Possible. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Capítulo 3: The Earth-Form of Life, p.46-66 y Cap4: Sentipensar with the Earth, p.67-83. Thematic unit 4: Local environmental solutions and new paths to design the futu Escobar, A. (2017). Autonomía y diseño La realización de lo comunal. Tinta Limón. Rivera Cusicanqui, S. (2010). Ch’ixinakax utxiwa. Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discur descolonizadores. Tinta limón. Rivera Cusicanqui, S. (2018). Un mundo ch’ixi es posible Ensayos desde un presente en crisis. Tinta Limón. Sundberg, J. (2014). Decolonizing posthumanist geographies. Cultural geographies, 21(1), 33-47. Mancuso, S. (2017). El futuro es vegetal. Galaxia Gutenberg. Achondo, P.P. (2024). «Si los hombres hubiéramos construido la floresta” Poesía, emergencia climátic espiritualidad. Revista Christus, pp. 36-39.

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