Climate Change Leadership – Power, Politics and Culture (distance) – Weeks 16-19 Culture

Updated 2019-04-15 at 16:28 DM

… for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.

– Umberto Eco

… at every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

– Roberto Unger

This is the Merriam-Webster definition of ‘culture’ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture

1 a : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time
b : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
c : the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic
d : the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations

Learning outcomes week 16-19

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

critically relate to prerequisites, possibilities and limitations for a sustainable leadership within the climate field;

analyse and evaluate different proposed solutions and their opportunities, limitations and risks within the climate field;

Assignment week 16-19 Culture

Assignment for week 16-19 will be released April 29, 2019, at 12.00.

Open, non-mandatory events in Uppsala

May 11: Sustainability Slam

May 12: ALL ABOARD The Sustainability Express Edit

Course book for week 16-19 Culture

During week 16-19 you will read:

EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities Book by Jeff Edmundson, John Lupinacci, and Rebecca A. Martusewicz – Chapter 9 (available online: full access through UU Library: http://tinyurl.com/yxmzdnv6)

Texts (click on bold title to access the text), videos, audio and visuals

Introducing Culture, Leadership, Solutions and Climate Change

The Real Politics of the Planetary Crisis
– Alex Steffen, 2017

Climate Change and Culture – Analyzing, Critiquing, Putting in Perspective

Climate Change, Economic Systems and Limits

Climate Change, Food and Agriculture

Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledge and Non-Western Perspectives

Briefing Note: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the 2030 Agenda
– OHCHR and the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations, 2017

Including Indigenous Knowledge and Experience in IPCC Assessment Reports
– James D. Ford et. al., 2016