PECO 5501F/PSCI 5501F/SOCI 5504F
Political Ecology of Food Systems
Instructor: Harriet Friedmann
This course explores historical trajectories food and agriculture, relations of property, power, exchange, knowledge, and culture. Key themes and literatures will be farming systems (including land, labour, kinship/community/market/state), and landscapes (natural places shaped by human activities), which require trans-scalar approaches to time and place.
Tuesdays, 2:30 – 5:30
SOCI 5806C
Sociology of Transitions
Instructor: Harriet Friedmann
This course examines different approaches to transitions of social systems at various scales of time and space: social and technical complex transitions, using a “multi-level” perspective of “landscape,” “regime” and “niche;” politics (more firmly rooted in Sociology); and longue durée transformations focusing on cities.
Fridays, 2:30 – 5:30