ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Contemporary History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Historical roots of the contemporary ecological crisis and social implications at various territorial scales: the debate on the origins of the so-called Anthropocene and the specificities of environmental change from agrarian and industrial revolutions. The division of the world into rural and urban and the breakdown of metabolic cycles. Mechanization of productive processes and the empire of fossil energy. The unequal ecological exchange between colonial centres and peripheries. The toxicity of industrial progress: major accidents and daily pollution. The epoch of the so-called Great Acceleration (from 1945 to the present): the «green revolution», the nuclear threat and the exponential growth of the population. The origins and evolution of a global ecological consciousness.
1. Introduction to environmental history.
2. The role of demography in the contemporary ecological crisis. The growth of consumption.
3. Fordism, standardization and mass production. The post-war social pact and its crisis in neoliberalism
4. International trade. Second globalization.
5. Energy transitions and trends in material consumption
6. Green Revolution and agri-food systems.
7. The environmental impacts of economic growth
8. Environmentalism and ecological transition
Armiero, Marco (2023). Wasteoceno. La era de los residuos. Madrid, Catarata
Barca, Stefania (2020). Forces of reproduction. Notes for a counterhegemonic Anthropocene. Cambridge U.P.
Brand, Ulrich; Wissen, Mark (2021) The imperial mode of living. Everyday life and the ecological crisis of capitalism. Verso
Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2022). El clima de la historia en la época planetaria, Alianza
Ellis, Erle (2022) El Antropoceno. Una breve introduccion, Alianza editorial
Fisher-Kowalski, Marina; Haberl, Helmut, orgs (2007) Socioecological transitions and global change. Trajectories of social metabolism and land use. Elgar
Gil Farrero, Judit (2020) “La protección de la naturaleza : problemáticas, métodos e historiografía”, Rubrica contemporanea, Vol. 9, Nº. 18, 2020, págs. 141-159
Gallego, Domingo (2022). Los caminos del progreso. Una historia del desarrollo económico. Granada: Comares.
González de Molina, Manuel, Toledo, Victor (2011). Metabolismos, naturaleza e Historia. Una teoría de las transformaciones socioecológicas, Barcelona: Icaria.
González de Molina, Manuel et al. (2019). Historia de la agricultura española desde una perspectiva biofísica 1900-2010.
Guha, Ramachandra (2000). Environmentalism. A Global History. New York, Longman.
Guillem, Ximo; Nieto, Agustí, orgs (2020). Tóxicos invisibles. La construcción de la ignorancia ambiental. Barcelona: Icaria.
Johnson, Sarah, org (2010), Landscapes, The White Horse Press
Iriarte, Iñaki; Infante, Juan (2024). Impactos ambientales del crecimiento económico en España. Una perspectiva histórica, Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.
Martínez Alier, Joan (2009). El ecologismo de los pobres. Barcelona: Icaria.
Mazoyer, Marcel; Roudart, Laurence (2016), Historia de las agriculturas del Mundo. Oviedo. KRK.
McNeill John R. (2003). Algo nuevo bajo el sol, Historia medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX, Madrid: Alianza.
McNeill, John R.; Engelke, Peter (2014). The Great Acceleration. An environmental history of the Anthropocene since 1945. Harvard U.P.
McNeill, J.R., Pomeranz, K. (2015). The Cambridge World History, Volume VII: Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Merchant, Carolyn (2020). La muerte de la naturaleza. Mujeres, ecología y revolución científica, Comares
Mignon Kirchhof, Astrid; McNeill, John R. (2019). Nature and the iron curtain. Environemntal policy and social movements in communist and capitalist countries, 1945-1990, Pittsburgh U.P.
Moore, Jason (2020). El capitalismo en la trama de la vida.: Ecología y acumulación de capital. Madrid: Traficantes de sueños.
Moore, Jason (2022). Antropoceno ou Capitaloceno? Natureza, história e a crise do capitalismo, Elefante
Naredo, José Manuel (2019). Taxonomía del lucro, Madrid.: Siglo XXI.
Pérez Cebada, Juan Diego (2014). Tierra devastada. Historia de la contaminación minera. Madrid: Síntesis.
Patel, Raj y Jason W. Moore (2023), Unha historia do mundo en sete cousas baratas, Consorcio Editorial Galego
Scheidel, W. (2018). El gran nivelador. Violencia e historia de la desigualdad desde la Edad de Piedra hasta el siglo XXI”. Barcelona: Crítica.
Knowledge:
Con3: Human geography
Con4: Physical geography 2 environment
Abilities:
H/D1: Managing geographical complexity and teritorial planning
H/D2: Understanding geographical problems in a multidimensional way, interrelating the physical-natural with the human and social sphere
H/D3: Interrelating phenomena at different territorial scales
H/D4: Finding, generatinge, sorting and synthesizing geographic information
H/D5: Exposing and transmiting geographical knowledge, methods and results
Skills:
Comp1: Knowing, understanding, analyzing and interpreting the territory, the physical-natural environment, the environment and the landscape
Comp6: Preparing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information
Comp7: Explaining the diversity of places, environments, cities and regions
-Expository classes
-Case studies
-Discussions
-Oral presentations
- Problem solving
- Field practice
The evaluation will be continuous and will take into account the participation of the students in the proposed activities throughout the semester.
The final grade will be obtained as follows:
There will be a final exam on the date indicated in the official calendar drawn up by the Faculty Secretariat, in which students must answer questions related to the topics of the program developed in the expository and interactive classes, computing 50% of the final grade. In order for this grade to be taken into account, the students will have to obtain a minimum grade of 5 out of 10 in the exam. Those students who do not achieve the required minimum grade will have to take the exam again at the second opportunity.
The remaining 50% will be obtained from the grades obtained in the interactive sessions and field work, based on the readings and reviews, work proposed by the teachers, attitude and participation in the classroom, in addition to other activities. In order to be able to average the exam grade, students must obtain an overall average grade of 5 out of 10 in the interactives. Completing the internships within the indicated deadlines is a mandatory condition to be able to take the exams and pass the subject. Those students who do not achieve the minimum grade required will have to examine the practical part in the second opportunity.
Students with a dispensation granted will have to take the final exam of the subject, on the official date on the expository and interactive content.
For the cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and review of qualifications will apply.
CRITERIA according to which the students' comments/work will be graded:
1.- Level of content mastery.
2.- Level of mastery of the general and specific historical terminology of the subject.
3.- Ability to synthesize and prioritize the relevant aspects in the preparation of a topic.
4.- Capacity for critical analysis and interpretive reasoning.
5.- Ability to relate and/or compare, as appropriate, when developing a topic.
6.- The presentation and general organization of the exercises.
7.- The level of mastery of the formal presentation techniques of the works.
8. Uncritical and unquoted use of material obtained from the network will be penalized.
Estimated study time:
24 face-to-face hours of full group lectures
12 face-to-face hours of interactive seminar classes
12 interactive laboratory/computer classroom teaching
12 hours of work preparation and/or the development of field practices
2 hours of mandatory personalized tutoring
3 hours evaluation
85 hours of personal study
TOTAL: 150 HOURS
It is essential that students assimilate the philosophy and requirements of the continuous assessment system established by the new EEES methodology, so it is recommended:
- Reading culture magazines.
- Regular consultation of a historical dictionary.
- Consultation and reading of the recommended works.
- Consultation of cultural internet sites promoted by institutions of proven intellectual solvency.
David Soto Fernandez
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812638
- david.soto.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Andrea Rivas Fiel
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- andrearivas.fiel [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
Stefania Barca
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- stefania.barca [at] usc.es
- Category
- Investigador/a Distinguido/a
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| 17:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 07 |
| Thursday | |||
| 17:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 07 |
| 12.19.2024 09:00-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 08 |
| 06.16.2025 09:30-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 09 |