HRSJ 5260

Drawing on geography, sociology, anthropology, and law, students examine contemporary capitalism as a system connecting extraction, production, consumption, and disposal at different spatial scales and across political jurisdictions, as well as differing cultural and social contexts. Beginning with the moral economists’ critique of capitalism and its redefinition of human relations, students examine economic globalization under de-regulated capitalism. Students may examine moral economies in terms of production, labor, commoditization, valuation, and/or consumption with various themes and case studies. Students will also explore social movements that resist capitalist extraction and exploitation through labor, migrant, environment, or gender justice movements.