SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biogeochemical Cycle, Anthropocene, Degrowth

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Topic: social sciences in dialogue with the sciences of nature: the role of the military and market- based approaches in environmental destruction. Readings: thanatocene: power and ecocide, 122-147; phagocene: consuming the planet 148-169. Film: the wisdom to survive: climate change, capitalism & community (2013). Key terms: consumerism, degrowth, capitalist expansion, happiness index, healthy life expectancy; Taylorism; disciplinary hedonism, chiffonage, throw away culture, planned obsolescence, gdp, credit, Cold war keynesianism; thermocene vs. thanatocene (141), ecocide (vietnam war), military- industrial complex, scorched earth military strategy, agent orange (monsanto), ddt, defoliants, napalm (dupont), (wartime) state of exception, suburbs, liberty ships (140), the great acceleration (144). Lecture notes: degrowth, the great acceleration of the 1950s points to the key role played by wwii in the history of the. Anthropocene, and the us war effort in particular. Industrial mobilization for the war, followed by the creation of civilian markets designed to absorb the excess industrial capacity (144).