SOST 890BF

This directed reading course examines the influence of resource extraction on social relations of production and reproduction. The course will explore (1) class, gender, and racialized divisions of labour in resource contexts; (2) changing rural ways of life, social and technical organization of work, and society-nature relationships due to the advancement of technology and machinery in extractive sectors; (3) human-environment relations as mediated by labour; and (4) the connections between ideology, identity, and political-economic formations, including the impact of ideologies on collectivity and activism.