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RELS 342 Indigeneity and Nature Units: 3.00
The seminar deals with the knowledges and practices through which Indigenous peoples conceptualize and approach what the West calls "Nature". Applying their underlying principles, we further analyze contemporary initiatives to promote interspeciesism, and to grant rights to Nature and legal personhood to different elements of the environment.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Seminar, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 3 or above) or (6.0 units of RELS at the 100-level).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify Indigenous conceptualizations of their environment to reinterpret the Nature/Culture divide as a specifically Western cultural product.
- Examine Indigenous social, technical, and ritualized practices to compose their epistemological approaches to the environment.
- Analyze the human/no-human relationships in Indigenous contexts to debate on the inter-speciesist movement and the rights of Nature.