POLT 213 - The Politics of Oil

FC SSCI

4 credits
Extractive industries-especially the oil industry-play an outsized role in domestic and international politics.This course focuses primarily on the colonial and neocolonial politics of oil: oil wars, the resource curse, and the power of transnational corporations. It then exploresthe links between (literal) resource extraction and the (figurative) extraction of value from the economy through practices like futures trading, data mining, and the patenting of genomes and indigenous knowledges.
This course is appropriate for new students.