Course Info: CSI-0223

CourseCSI-0223 Global Insecurity
Long TitleGlobal Insecurity: Climate Change, Inequality, and War in the 21st Century
Term2021F
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Meeting InfoFranklin Patterson Hall ELH on M,W from 2:30-3:50
FacultyOmar Dahi
Capacity23
Available5
Waitlist0
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Additional InfoStudents should generally expect to spend 6 hours per week on work outside of class time.
Description

This is the first of a year-long two semester course taught in conjunction with Security in Context, an international research initiative tackling urgent issues of global importance including climate change, inequalities, and war. Traditionally, security has been understood through the prisms of militaries, policing, borders, and surveillance. However, for many populations around the world, these traditional practices of security lead to insecurity in their daily lives: economic precarity, social dislocation, imprisonment or marginalization. The course will introduce students to alternative notions of security from an interdisciplinary and global South perspective that challenges narrow Western ideas of security. Students who complete the two semesters will co-produce original content for the initiative in the form of articles, interviews, videos, podcasts or other material. Keywords: Climate change, politcal economy, global institutions