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Since the 1970s, the social sciences have undergone an “environmental turn” as many scholars have attempted to adapt their theoretical and methodological tools to better respond to the growing environmental crisis. Environmental and political issues are important topics for social science and Science and Technology Studies (STS), not only because of the urgency of the environmental problems facing modern society, but also because the social study of the environment has opened up a highly interconnected web of social, cultural, and political controversies involving competing professional knowledge, social organization, notions of progress, modernity, and debates over freedom and justice within democracy. In addition, the focus of this course acknowledges a “planetary turn”. The advent of the Anthropocene means that the cumulative impact of the human species on the Earth system as a whole now exceeds the influence of key geological forces, making humans one of the major driving forces behind geological or geophysical change. The Earth has left the Holocene era and entered a new geological epoch, the characteristics of which are yet to be defined and explored in this course. This not only places the humanities and social sciences at the center of the task of understanding the fate of the Earth, but also challenges social scientists to imagine how large-scale environmental politics can be intertwined with art exhibitions.
This course explores several basic challenges that exist within the visions of a sustainable system and society and examines the claim of low-carbon transition from different perspectives such as technological, institutional, and political-economic. Firstly, it will start with a review of the understanding of sustainability and ask what the underlying conceptualization of Nature is in this encompassing term. What are the different and sometimes competing strategies to achieve sustainability? A historical relationship between Nature and Society follows, pointing out that nature is not an existing entity that is just over there. The concept of "Nature" is actively constructed by modern society through ideas such as conservation, natural history. Secondly, it explores the theme of environmental politics and governance, foregrounding the institutional and power effects of environmental issues such as the politics of Climate Change; Lastly, we are going to discuss the buzzing term, Anthropocene, the scientific controversy, and social and cultural implications it brings to contemporary social studies on the planetary Earth.
Guest lecturer:
Dr Leslie Mabon, Lecturer in Environmental Systems, School of Engineering & Innovation, The Open University, United Kingdom.
Dr Yi-Chen Huang, PhD in Human Geography, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom.
Dr Aleksandra Wagner, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
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Week-by-week Syllabus and Readings
9/12 Week 1 Topic: Course orientation
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9/19 Week 2 Topic: Approaches to sustainable development
Required reading: Kierstin C. Hatt, Debra J. Davidson, and Ineke Lock (2005) Power and Sustainability., in Davidson, Debra J; Hatt, Kierstin C (eds.) Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change. 2005, p8-19.
Ana João Gaspar de Sousa & Elisabeth Kastenholz (2015) Wind farms and the rural tourism experience – problem or possible productive integration? The views of visitors and residents of a Portuguese village, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 23(2015), 1236-1256 (the parts before methodology)
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9/26 Week 3 Topic: Grassroot innovation for sustainability
Required reading: Gill Seyfang & Adrian Smith (2007) Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda, Environmental Politics, 16:4, 584-603
Edith Chezel and Olivier Labussière (2018) Energy landscape as a polity. Wind power practices in Northern Friesland, Landscape Research, 43(4), 503-516. (the parts before section 3)
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10/3 Week 4 Topic: Key concepts in environmental politics and governance Guest lecturer: Dr Leslie Mabon
Required reading: Asayama, S., Bellamy, R., Geden, O., Pearce, W., & Hulme, M. (2019). Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous. In Nature Climate Change (Vol. 9, Issue 8, pp. 570–572). Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0543-4
Mike Hulme (2019). Climate Emergency politics is dangerous. Issues in Science and Technology, 36 (1), 23-25. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.46233
Mike Hulme (2020) Climate change forever: the future of an idea, Scottish Geographical Journal, 136:1-4, 118-122 , DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2020.1853872
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10/10 Week 5 Holiday |
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10/17 Week 6 Topic: Colloquim on energy teansition of Taiwan, Poland and UK Presenters: Taiwan (Prof Yang, CID), Poland (Prof Wagner, Mr Rudek ) Discussant: UK (Dr Leslie Mabon)
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10/24 Week 7 Topic: The science-policy interface for environmental governance Guest lecturer: Dr Leslie Mabon
Required reading: Dunlop, C. A. (2012). Epistemic communities. In E. Araral, S. Fritzen, M. Howlett, M. Ramesh, & X. Wu (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (pp. 247–261). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097571-28
Lo, A. Y., & Chen, K. (2019). Policy selection of knowledge: The changing network of experts in the development of an emission trading scheme. Geoforum, 106, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.021
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10/31 Week 8 Topic: The case of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster Guest lecturer: Dr Leslie Mabon
Required reading: Mabon, L and Kawabe, M (2017) ‘Making sense of post-disaster Fukushima fisheries: a scalar approach‘ Environmental Science and Policy 75: 173-183
Wong, C. M. L., & Lockie, S. (2018). Sociology, risk and the environment: A material-semiotic approach. Journal of Risk Research, 21(9), 1077–1092. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2017.1422783
Supplementary reading: Renn, O., Klinke, A., & van Asselt, M. (2011). Coping with Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Risk Governance: A Synthesis. AMBIO 2011 40:2, 40(2), 231–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/S13280-010-0134-0
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11/7 Week 9 Mid-term Week (Catching up week)
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11/14 Week 10 Invited talk: GOGORO’s energy network Speaker: Data Scientist, Tsai Alpha Discussants: Chengchi University, Jagiellonian University
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11/21 Week 11 Topic: Resilience and its contestations Guest lecturer: Dr Leslie Mabon
Required reading: Lockie, S. (2016). Beyond resilience and systems theory: reclaiming justice in sustainability discourse. In Environmental Sociology (Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 115–117). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2016.1182308
Cheek, W. W., & Chmutina, K. (2021). ‘Building Back Better’ is Neoliberal Post-Disaster Reconstruction. Disasters. https://doi.org/10.1111/DISA.12502
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11/28 Week 12 Topic: The politics of ‘nature-based solutions’ Guest lecturer: Dr Leslie Mabon
Required reading: Haase, D., Kabisch, S., Haase, A., Andersson, E., Banzhaf, E., Baró, F., Brenck, M., Fischer, L. K., Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., Krellenberg, K., Kremer, P., Kronenberg, J., Larondelle, N., Mathey, J., Pauleit, S., Ring, I., Rink, D., Schwarz, N., & Wolff, M. (2017). Greening cities – To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities. Habitat International, 64, 41–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.04.005
BarbaraSowińska-Świerkosz, JoanGarcía. (2022). What are Nature-based solutions (NBS)? Setting core ideas for concept clarification. Nature-Based Solutions 2022(2).
Supplementary reading: Nyelele, C., & Kroll, C. N. (2020). The equity of urban forest ecosystem services and benefits in the Bronx, NY. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 53, 126723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126723
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12/5 Week 13 Topic: Citizen science Guest lecturer: Dr Leslie Mabon
Required reading:
Irwin A (2015) ‘Citizen science and scientific citizenship: same words, different meanings?’ in Science Communication Today – 2015 (Bernard Schiele, Joëlle Le Marec and Patrick Baranger eds) Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine: Nancy pp 29-38.
Supplementary reading:
Aya H. Kimura (2019) Citizen Science in Post-Fukushima Japan: The Gendered Scientization of Radiation Measurement, Science as Culture, 28:3, 327-350, DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2017.1347154
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12/12 Week 14 Topic: Low-carbon transitions Guest lecture: Dr Yi-Chen Huang
Required reading: Geels, F. W., Berkhout, F., & van Vuuren, D. P. (2016). Bridging analytical approaches for low-carbon transitions. Nature Climate Change, 6(6), 576-583. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2980
Supplementary reading: Liu, J. C.-E., & Chao, C.-W. (2022). Equal rights for gasoline and electricity? The dismantling of fossil fuel vehicle phase-out policy in Taiwan. Energy Research & Social Science, 89, 102571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102571
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12/19 Week 15 Topic: Environmental ethics and values Guest lecture: Dr Yi-Chen Huang
Required reading: Rolston III, H. (1991). Environmental ethics: values in and duties to the natural world. Ecology, economics, ethics: The broken circle, 73-96.
Supplementary reading: Stern, P. (2000). Toward a coherent theory of environmentally significant behavior. Journal of social issues, 56(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-4537.00175
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12/ 26 Week 16 Topic: Environmental justice Guest lecture: Dr Yi-Chen Huang
Required reading: Schlosberg, D. (2013). Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse. Environmental politics, 22(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755387
Supplementary reading: Brush, E. (2020). Inconvenient truths: pluralism, pragmatism, and the need for civil disagreement. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 10(2), 160-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-020-00589-7
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1/2 Week 17 Holiday
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1/9 Week 18 Final exam week
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Extra Readings McNeill, John Robert. (2001) Something New Under the Sun : an Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York:Norton & Company.（有中譯本）
Latour, Bruno. (2017). Facing Gaia : Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime Cambridge, UK ;: Polity Press. （有中譯本）
Scott, James C. (2017) Against the Grain : a Deep History of the Earliest States. New Haven: Yale University Press. （有中譯本）
Castree, Noel (2014) ‘The Anthropocene and geography I: the back story,’ Geography Compass, 8(7), pp. 436-49.
Davies, Jeremy. 2016. "Versions of the Anthropocene." In the Birth of the Anthropocene. Oakland: University of California Press. pp.41-68.
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