LACS 30.15 Media and the Activist Amazon
The course will foreground the role of Indigenous peoples in defending the Amazon while also investigating pressing issues such as extractivism and land demarcation. Texts from fields including anthropology, sociology, visual studies, and architecture will provide an interdisciplinary approach to media objects that range from a Netflix series about a detective who reads the forest to a virtual reality piece that allows you to become a kapok tree in Madre de Dios.
Instructor
Broner