Ideas of progress and development in the context of climate crisis 3800-IPR23-S-OG

During the seminar we will critically analyse philosophical concepts of progress and development in the 21st century scientific and philosophical debate, in the context of the climate crisis, and their axiological assumptions and ethical implications.
Special attention will be paid to peripheral philosophies, that is philosophies outside the North American and European core. They deserve particular interest, because the global peripheries experience the effects of the climate crisis much more acutely than the global core. They also seem to be a particularly relevant voice in contemporary debates on development.
The seminar is conducted within the project: Ideas of progress and development in the context of the climate crisis in peripheral philosophy in the 21st century, National Science Centre Poland, 2021/43/B/HS1/03354.

Type of course

general courses
elective seminars

Prerequisites (description)

(in Polish) znajomość języka angielskiego na poziomie pozwalającym na lekturę tekstów naukowych i filozoficznych.

Course coordinators

Katarzyna Bielińska
Magdalena Środa

Assessment criteria

- activity during classes (including presence, knowledge of given readings, participation in discussions) – 50%,
- preparation of a seminar paper – 50%.

Additional criteria for PhD students:
- delivering a presentation

Number of absences: 2

Bibliography

The list of readings is preliminary and indicative. The detailed reading list and the planned schedule will be presented at the first seminar meeting.
Excerpts from the following works:

Blanc G. (2022). The Invention of Green Colonialism. H. Morrison (trans.). Polity.
Büchs, M., Koch, M. (2017). Postgrowth and wellbeing: Challenges to sustainable welfare. Springer.
Bustos, B., Engel-Di Mauro, S., García-López, G., Milanez, F., Ojeda, D. (Eds.). (2023). Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment. Taylor & Francis.
Dussel E. (2013). Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion. Vallega A. (trans.). Duke University Press Books.
Foster J.B. (2022). Capitalism in the Anthropocene. Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution. Monthly Review Press.
Frank A.G. (1970). Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy. New York London: Monthly Review Press.
H. Veltmeyer, P. Bowles (eds.). (2017). The essential guide to critical development studies. Routledge.
Hickel J. (2022). Mniej znaczy lepiej. O tym, jak odejście od wzrostu gospodarczego ocali świat. J.P. Listwan (trans.). Karakter.
Homborg A., McNeill J.R., Martinez Alier J. (eds.). (2007). Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, AltamiraPress.
Jackson T. (2021). Post Growth: Life after Capitalism. Wiley John + Sons.
Krenak A. (2023). Life Is Not Useful, Translated by Alex Brostoff, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Polity.
Martinez Alier J. (2002). The Environmentalism of the Poor. A study of ecological conflicts and valuation. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Mignolo W.D., Escobar, A. (eds.). (2010). Globalization and the Decolonial Option.
Moraña M, Dussel E, Jáuregui C.A, (eds.). (2008). Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate New York, USA: Duke University Press,
Pineault E. (2023). A Social Ecology of Capital, Pluto Press.
Saito K. (2022). Marx in the Anthropocene. Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Cambridge University Press.
Santos F.D. (2021). Time, Progress, Growth and Technology. Cham: Springer.
Stemplowski R. (ed.). (1987). Ameryka Łacińska. Dyskusja o rozwoju. Czytelnik
Svampa M. (2019). Development in Latin America Toward a New Future. Fernwood Publishing/
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). (2020). Human Development Report 2020: The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene. New York.

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