[gep-ed] Undergraduate climate change majors

[Paul Steinberg]

Dear GEP Colleagues,

Does anyone know of existing surveys of undergraduate majors specifically
focused on climate change, or specific examples of such majors?

We are in the early stages of expanding offerings in climate change at
Harvey Mudd College, with the possibility of eventually offering a climate
solutions major that would consist of 2/3 STEM courses and 1/3 humanities,
social sciences, and/or the arts (HSA).  This reflects the current
curricular balance at the school, which offers only STEM majors, balanced
with general coursework in HSA.

I am hoping to get a sense of what is already out there.  Certainly there
are atmospheric science majors and environmental studies majors galore, but
I wonder what majors exist with a specific focus on the scientific and
social dimensions of climate change?  If you don't know of surveys, but do
know of specific examples, that would also be helpful.

For ease of collection, kindly post any information or insights on the
following google doc:

http://bit.ly/climatemajors

Thank you in advance,

Paul Steinberg

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Paul F. Steinberg
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy
Malcolm Lewis Chair in Sustainability and Society
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Harvey Mudd College
http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg

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[gep-ed] My book, /Resource Radicals/ out with Duke UP & on sale

[Thea Riofrancos]

Hi All,

My book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in
Ecuador , is out with Duke
University Press and covers topics of interest to many on this list (brief
description below). It's also on sale with the rest of the catalogue at 50%
off, using code FALL2020. And, you can download and read the introduction
on the book's website, linked to above.

Yours warmly,
Thea
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Thea Riofrancos (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute (2020-2021)
Fellow, Carnegie Corporation (2020-2022)
http://www.theariofrancos.com/

*Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador *
In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the
“twenty-first-century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots
activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side
declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of
socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In *Resource
Radicals*, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms:
on the one hand, the administration's resource nationalism and focus on
economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots
activists who condemned the government's disregard for nature and
indigenous communities. In this archival and ethnographic study, Riofrancos
expands the study of resource politics by decentering state resource policy
and locating it in a field of political struggle populated by actors with
conflicting visions of resource extraction. She demonstrates how Ecuador's
commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a
unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological
foundations of global capitalism.

“*Resource Radicals* is an insightful and ultimately optimistic
interpretation of social mobilization around natural resource extraction in
Ecuador. Thea Riofrancos eschews simple resource curse theory, viewing
mobilization as a potential pathway toward more productive modes of
governing extractive industry. Sensitive to both anti-extractivist and
‘Pink Tide’ approaches to resource extraction, she offers a nuanced
analysis of resource politics and the complex challenges facing regimes
that seek to govern the subsoil for progressive change.” — Anthony
Bebbington, coauthor of *Governing Extractive Industries: Politics,
Histories, Ideas*

“This is a valuable, sensitive, and generous study of the new shapes that
left politics has taken in the twenty-first century as crises of ecology
and inequality swirl together. It's an essential basis for understanding
the challenges ahead.” — Jedediah Purdy, author of *This Land Is Our Land:
The Struggle for a New Commonwealth*

"[Riofranco's] scholarship is an example of internationalist solidarity in
critical practice, the kind to which we may all aspire, and to which our
current moment demands." — Hilary Goodfriend, *Jacobin Magazine*

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