ANTH 129 - Disasters!

3 unit(s)
Anthropological exploration of disasters as historically produced processes across sociocultural contexts and through time. Students will learn how to critically interrogate the concept of “nature” and how disasters are produced. The course centers on everyday social relations, political-economic histories, and human relationships with other species and material environments to show how risk, hazards, and vulnerability are made-and remade-in place. Topics include nature, resource use, climate change, biodiversity, waste, disaster governance and humanitarian response, displacement and recovery, and cooperation and social support. Through comparative ethnographic cases, students gain tools to critically assess media and policy claims and to envision sustainable, community‑grounded approaches to disaster risk reduction.

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 11
Grading: Letter Graded

Sustainability Focused - SDG 13: Climate Action SDG 15: Life on Land

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