ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antonio Gramsci, Societal Racism, Manufacturing Consent

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

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Racial projects, housing projects, and engineering projects - outline. Today: take stock of what we"ve covered, the significance of power and race in the context of katrina, structural and ideological racism & marginality. Review - new orleans as a racially segregated landscape of differentiated risk. Formation of identity tied into policies and historical legacies and processes that go to shape racial formation and identity. Power plays a role in all of these processes, embedded in government policies and opportunities offered to each person. The moral of his story: it is impossible to separate social. Kelman: and environmental issues in n. o. , because it is a network of human and non-human intermingled, straddling the nature/culture divide. Max weber on power: that opportunity existing within a social relationship which permits one to carry out one"s own will even against resistance and regardless of the basis on which this opportunity rests.