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This course explores the relationships among science, technology, and social environments, with an eye to inequalities of race, class, gender, region, and nation-state. It engages STS from the vantage of environmental justice and public health activism, with an emphasis on California and the Bay Area. Topics include: the social construction of ¿the environment;¿ risk assessment and the politics of science; undone science; food justice; built environments and regional equity; climate change and green jobs initiatives; greenwashing and the politics of sustainability.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Holzmeyer, C. (PI)
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