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Session 11: Capitalism’s Nature

More traditional understandings of capitalism often missed its inherent need to separate the human from the non-human. This is changing with narratives of the Anthropocene. Have we been “losing the world knowingly”?

Published onJan 19, 2021
Session 11: Capitalism’s Nature
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  • Sheila Jasanoff: Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Ch. 2: Controlling Narratives). 

  • Book review by Sarah-Louise Ruder (Clive Hamilton. Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017).

Please access the Globinar Cloud here (password: nature).

Movie/Narratives:

Crude (The Story of Chevron - Texaco's Ecuador Disaster)

Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

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