ENS282 Politics, Ideology and Environment

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lukáš Kala, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Nicholas Paul Orsillo (lecturer)
Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Skalík (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Veronika Išová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 9:45–11:15 U53
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Course provides to the students basic orientation in political ideologies and in their importance for the environmental issues, putting an accent to the situation in the Czech Republic. Participants will obtain general overview about environmental dimension of the Czech party system and they will adopt basic conceptual framework to theoretically discuss and analyze the political discourse in both historical and global context.
Syllabus
  • 1) Ideology, power, polity and politics
  • 2) Main political ideologies form environmental perspective (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism)
  • 3) Eco-dictatorship, ecofascism
  • 4) Ideological roots of ecological movement
  • 5) Evolution of the czech ecological politics
  • 6) Czech party system from environmental perspective
  • 7) Green parties in both the Czech Rep. and worldwide
  • 8) European and global environmental politics
  • 9) Final debate with a politician
Literature
  • SCRUTON, Roger. Ochrana přírody jako konzervativní téma. Praha: Občanský institut, 2008, 15 s. ISBN 9788086972398. info
  • HEYWOOD, Andrew. Politické ideologie. Translated by Zdeněk Masopust. 4. vyd. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2008, 362 s. ISBN 9788073801373. info
  • BIEHL, Janet and Peter STAUDENMAIER. Ekofašismus : poučení z německé zkušenosti. Translated by Martin Konvička. V Olomouci: Votobia, 1999, 101 s. ISBN 8071983551. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class disicussion, reading
Assessment methods
Discourse analysis
Essay
Final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2020.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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