The course offers an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary catastrophes and their relation to globalization processes. Contemporary catastrophes ("complex humanitarian – or political – emergencies") are multi-dimensional events that transcend national boundaries, defy traditional ways of containing the rapid dissemination of their destructive effects, activate trans-national mechanisms of relief and intervention, and give rise to new forms of political and moral discourse. The course analyzes catastrophes as a sort of laboratory for the study of certain aspects of globalization (global civil society, multi-national corporations, perceptions of and preparations for environmental global disaster), and examines the effect of the latter on the experience and representation of catastrophes.
The course is offered to junior faculty and advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, and NGO activists with appropriate academic backgrounds, who are interested in cultural, sociological, political, and moral aspects of the way contemporary societies cope with recent, foreseeable, or imaginary catastrophes.
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