Study programme

The micro credential ‘The political ecology of sustainable development and green policies’ consist of twelve sessions  of two hours in which both the central concepts and debates underpinning global discourses and policies on “sustainable development” and the “green economy” are critically assessed.

Tentative overview of the different sessions:

• Session 1: Sustainabilities & environmentalisms: a political economic history
• Session 2: Sustainabilities & environmentalisms: a political economic history
• Session 3: Conservation-development paradigms & “green economy” myth
• Session 4: Conservation-development paradigms & “green economy” myth
• Session 5: Extractivism: the value of “resources”
• Session 6: Extractivism: resources for the “green transition”
• Session 7: Capitalism & neoliberal conservation: critiques
• Session 8: Capitalism & neoliberal conservation: critiques
• Session 9: Extractivism: indigenous struggles
• Session 10: Alternative social-ecological futures
• Session 11: Alternative social-ecological futures
• Session 12: Class discussion