Political Ecologies: Nature, Humans and Non Humans

This final Take-Home Exam of the course Political Ecologies: Nature, Humans, and Non-Humans consists of two essay questions being answered through the use of academic literature in combination with the additional material being covered in the lectures. (The year 2024) This document relates to the in-depth understandings and elaboration of key concepts such as multispecies communities, forms of risk and care, exploring more-than-human communities, technological manipulations of nature, and t...

This individual research paper as an assignment of the course Political Ecologies: Nature, Humans, and Non-Humans consists of an in-depth research, based on academic literature, on the subject of harvesting avocados in Michoacan State, Mexico and its relation to socio-economic, political and cultural influence as a consequence. The aim of this research paper was to demonstrate an understanding of literature and tools discussed in this course by developing a case study within one of the main ...

This document contains a literature summary of all compulsory literature for the course Political Ecologies in the year 2023/2024, given at Utrecht University.