Industrial Food & Plantation Ecology - 4 Weeks

Mon+Th, 6-8pm ET

4 weeks, Feb 4-28

This course examines the cultural, economic, and ecological structures of industrial food. We review its origin in slave economies and colonial plantations, to current-day labor abuses and monocultures. We analyze literature, film, and theory to connect social and environmental problems  to the colonization of the planet. We assess how these systems transform biodiverse ecosystems into cash-crop factories, animals into raw materials, and people into disposable workers. 

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Instructor: Leila Christine Nadir is an Afghan-American educator, writer, and Associate Professor at the University of Rochester where she founded one of the first environmental humanities academic programs in the US. She researches geopolitical, environmental, and colonial violence, and holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.