ENS282 Politics, Ideology and Environment

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Mikuláš Černík (lecturer)
Mgr. Patrik Gažo (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Dostalík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Bc. Petra Burišková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 20. 2. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 27. 2. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 5. 3. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 12. 3. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 19. 3. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 26. 3. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 2. 4. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 9. 4. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 23. 4. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 30. 4. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 7. 5. 12:00–13:40 U23, Thu 14. 5. 12:00–13:40 U23
Prerequisites
! ENSb1282 Politics, Ideology and Environ &&!NOW( ENSb1282 Politics, Ideology and Environ )
The presumption for the participation on the module is the acknowledgement with basic terminology of environmental studies and general knowledge of political structure in the Czech Republic.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those 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.
Learning outcomes
Course participants will be able to:
- analyze ideological presuppositions of environmental policies
- distinguish between main environmentally-relevant ideological streams
- describe histroy of environmentally-focused political efforts
- orient themselves in a politics of "green parties"
- define terms commonly used in environmental politics
- describe legislatory structure of environemntal politics and policy
- compare legislation frameworks of onvironmental politics in European countries
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
Active attendance on seminars
Essay
Final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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 2016, Spring 2018.
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