Environmental Technologies: Infrastructure, Ethics, and Society

How do technologies, infrastructures, and large-scale environmental interventions tangle with social, political, and ethical concerns? This course considers infrastructures like dams, canals, pipelines, power facilities, and others, in the process of creating new environments, also create new ideas of power, governance, and political economy. We think globally with the history of large-scale environmental infrastructures, from colonial landscape interventions to actual and proposed plants for generating green power, to explore how environmental technologies interact with societies across time and space.