LAMS 230. Arts of Extraction: Hemispheric Representations of Ecological Injustice. 1 Credit.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3
Explore the social and environmental histories of capitalism in Latin America and the US through literary, filmic and photographic representations of resource extraction. Environmental collapse is imminent, but many can't see it. Can the arts help us see our world differently so that we might forestall its worst effects? Crosslisted as HUMN 230.