| CODE | IRL3010 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Norms, Rights and Climate Justice | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | International Relations | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will familiarize students with the tools used to understand why stringent environmental and in particular climate regulations have been difficult to enact at international and national levels. It also investigates why positions are so entrenched on key aspects of the agenda, such as compensation and financing of climate change mitigation. More specifically, students will analyze notions of climate justice, climate reparations, climate finance, and climate litigation. The study unit will examine issues related to climate change from international, intergenerational, economic and social justice lens. It will also look at global governance, human rights and democracy in the era of climate change. Study-Unit Aims: - to give an overview of concepts such as climate justice, climate reparations, climate finance, and climate litigation. - to enable students to analyse from various perspectives the reasons for the weaknesses of climate protection at the international level. - to critically assess how human rights and democracy are faring in an era of climate change. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - elucidate general concepts such as justice, human rights and democracy and their interrelationship; - explain specific concepts including climate justice, climate reparations, climate finance, and climate litigation; - examine critically the present and potential implications of climate change from a broad justice perspective; - discuss in a nuanced manner why global measures to tackle climate change have been so limited. - analyze and evaluate climate policies and processes from a justice perspective. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - write more competently on issues at the interface between international relations and philosophy; - discuss more complex international phenomena with some confidence and level of professionalism; - communicate informed ideas and arguments related in written and oral form; - prepare and execute a presentation on a complex topic in front of an audience Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: -havnani, K. K., Foran, J., Kurian, P. A., & Munshi, D., eds. (2019). Climate futures: Reimagining global climate justice. Bloomsbury Publishing. - Caney, S. (2014). Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens. Journal of Political Philosophy, 22(2): 125-149. https://doi:10.1111/jopp.12030 - Caney, S. (2018). Justice and Posterity. In: Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy, eds. R. Kanbur and H. Shue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 157-174. - Dolšak, N., & Prakash, A. (2022). Three faces of climate justice. Annual Review of Political Science, 25, 283-301. - Grady-Benson, J., & Sarathy, B. (2016). Fossil fuel divestment in US higher education: student-led organising for climate justice. Local Environment, 21(6), 661-681. - Purdon, M. Neoclassical realism and international climate change politics: moral imperative and political constraint in international climate finance. J Int Relat Dev 20, 263–300 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2013.5 - Schapper, A. (2018). Climate justice and human rights. International Relations, 32(3), 275-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117818782595 - Szulecki, K. (2018) Conceptualizing energy democracy, Environmental Politics, 27:1, 21-41, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2017.1387294 - Victor, D. G. (2006). Toward effective international cooperation on climate change: Numbers, interests and institutions. Global environmental politics, 6(3), 90-103. Supplementary Readings: - Bacchi, C., & Goodwin, S. (2016). Making Politics Visible: The WPR Approach. In: Poststructural Policy Analysis. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52546-8_2 - Gardiner, S.M., Caney, S., Jamieson, D., & Shue, H., eds. (2010). Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Miller, D. (2009) Global Justice and Climate Change: How Should Responsibilities Be Distributed?. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Delivered at Tsinghua University, Beijing, 24-25 March 2008. [Available online]. - Roser, D., & Seidel, Ch. (2016). Climate Justice: An introduction. London: Taylor & Francis. - Shue, H. (2014). Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection. Oxford: Oxford University Press - Vanderheiden, S. (2008). Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Seminar | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Jean-Paul De Lucca Roberto Debono Yasmin Anna Gunilla Khakee |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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