Indigenous Rights, Development and Environmental Justice in Latin America
LAS 6938
This graduate seminar investigates how environmental change, development, and extractivism intersect with Indigenous struggles for justice. The course begins with a focus on environmental justice, research ethics, and decolonial politics to provide a theoretical and methodological framework for our engagement during the semester. We will then consider how radical cartographies, ecologies of knowledge, and frontier intimacies shape, and are shaped by, contemporary Indigenous movements in the context of extractive development. This interactive discussion-based seminar will engage ethnographies and interdisciplinary studies that highlight key issues from Mexico and Guatemala to the Southern Cone while centering Indigenous perspectives. Students will develop a critical theoretical and ethical framework to better understand and study relationships between environmental change, Indigenous rights, and development. In-person and online sections of the class will meet synchronously in the “HyFlex” format with an emphasis on building community and inspiring interaction.
Taught by Dr. Joel Correia
Email: joel.correia@ufl.edu
LAS 6938
In person: Section 0104, Course # 15271
Online: Section 0105, Course # 29794
Days: Wednesdays
Times: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES