FINAL PAPER

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HERE IS COURSE GOAL: This course is organized around three themes: the Past, the Present, and the Future. Section one analyzes the history of environmental sociology and the recent history of the earth’s environment,

specifically in the United States. This historical information is strategic in the sense that it helps us understand more fully section two, which investigates the ways the environment is shaping society and being reshaped, itself, in the present. Finally, section three looks to the future, imagining what could be—both for the discipline of sociology and for the environment, itself.

All essay topics should engage the course themes and readings. I will approve paper topics on a case-by-case basis.

PLEASE READ THREE OF THEM, YOU CAN DECIDE BY YOURSELF OF THE THEME, BUT YOU MUST NEED TO ADDRESS THE PROMPTS!

1. Riley Dunlap and Robert Brulle. 2015. Introduction in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. ed. by Riley Dunlap and Robert Brulle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press

2. Zeke Baker. 2017. Climate State: Science-State Struggles and the Formation of Climate Science in the US from the 1930s to 1960s. Social Studies of Science. 47.6: 861-887

3. Eugene Rosa, et al. 2015. The Human (Anthropogenic) Driving Forces of Global Climate Change in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. ed. by Riley Dunlap and Robert Brulle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press

4. Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2009. The Climate of History: Four Theses. Critical Inquiry. 35.2: 197-222

5. Charles Perrow and Simone Pulver. 2015. Organizations and Markets in Climate Change and

Society: Sociological Perspectives. ed. by Riley Dunlap and Robert Brulle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press

6. Sheila Jasanoff. 2010. A New Climate for Society. Theory, Culture & Society 27.2-3: 233–253

7. Timothy Mitchell. 2009. Carbon Democracy.

Economy and Society. 38.3: 399-432

8. Erik Swyngedouw. 2010. Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change. Theory, Culture & Society. 27.2-3: 213–232

9. Sherilyn MacGregor. 2014. Only Resist: Feminist Ecological Citizenship and the Post-politics of Climate Change. Hypatia 29: 617–633

10. Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2019. The Planet: An Emergent Humanist Category. Critical Inquiry 46.1: 1-34

11. Rebecca Elliot. 2018. The Sociology of Climate Change as a Sociology of Loss. European Journal of Sociology.59.3: 301-337