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| 0669-6118-01 | The Identity @ Environmental Action Lab 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The Identity & Environmental Action Lab (http://www.tau.ac.il/tarbut/Maabadat-Sebiba/index.html) provide a learning and research framework for graduate students who wish to pursue studies concerning the link between identity and social action, and environmental action in particular, as MA or PhD dissertations. While Environmental discourse rapidly evolves, it has eventually been recognized that so far, the Environmental movement has failed to bring on a change. To explain this failure, attention is growingly drawn to social factors and questions of cultural competence as crucial dimensions in the reception or rejection of the Environmental agenda. The Identity & Environmental Action Lab addresses the need of developing qualitative research within the field of Environmental Studies. Proceeding from ‘practice theories’ and the cultural approach to the study of social movements, it provides theoretical and methodological tools to explore such topics as the spread of environmental habitus, environmental literacy, activism and local communities, the interplay between policy making and grassroots processes, the role perception of environmental mediators, and aspects of local environmental histories.
The Lab framework includes a research seminar, where students’ projects are developed and discussed. The seminar meetings are dedicated to discussions of theoretical and research literature, as well as to practicing working with interviews, transcribing and preparing the research materials, and using an elaborate method of discourse analysis.
The Lab framework includes a research seminar, where students’ projects are developed and discussed. The seminar meetings are dedicated to discussions of theoretical and research literature, as well as to practicing working with interviews, transcribing and preparing the research materials, and using an elaborate method of discourse analysis.