Clate J Korsant
Dr. Clate Korsant is the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs and faculty within the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He has also taught within the anthropology departments of John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York), Bard College’s Prison Initiative, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Clate completed his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a dissertation titled, "Environmentalisms in Practice: From National Policy to Grassroots Activism in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula." His subsequent ethnographic documentary film, "Lifting the Green Screen," was based upon this work, and has been internationally screened and awarded. Most recently, his article, “A Freirean Ecopedagogy or an Imposition of Values? The Pluriverse and the Politics of Environmental Education,” was published in Globalizations Special Issue: Education and Socio-Environmental Justice in the Pluriverse. Clate’s active public profile includes invited talks, screenings, academic presentations across numerous conferences, and other research dissemination. In particular, Clate has developed scholarship at the intersection of political ecology, environmental theory, socio-political justice, and conservation.
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Students will gain an understanding of visual anthropology, documentary film, film and media theory, ethnography, sociopolitical history in Latin America, political economy, political ecology, systemic violence, sexuality, indigeneity and race, and questions of identity and belonging. Of particular interest will be – within the postcolonial and interdisciplinary world of Latin American studies – a critical look at the intersection of everyday life and the dynamics of power that help to inform the possibilities for being human.
This course situates itself within environmental and visual anthropology, political ecology, media studies, and socio-environmental thought. Students will review Latin American cases, both ethnographic and historical, to illuminate how nature has been imagined and the socio-political consequences of those various treatments of nature. Through image, film, and media analysis, review of social and environmental theory, and political and ecological history in Latin America, students will lead engaged discussions and analyze forms of socio-environmental interaction in order to rethink nature as a site of conflict, controversy, wonder; and, as inherently entangled within scholarly understandings of Latin American history.
Students will gain an understanding of visual anthropology, documentary film, film and media theory, ethnography, sociopolitical history in Latin America, political economy, political ecology, systemic violence, sexuality, indigeneity and race, and questions of identity and belonging. Of particular interest will be – within the postcolonial and interdisciplinary world of Latin American studies – a critical look at the intersection of everyday life and the dynamics of power that help to inform the possibilities for being human.
This course situates itself within environmental and visual anthropology, political ecology, media studies, and socio-environmental thought. Students will review Latin American cases, both ethnographic and historical, to illuminate how nature has been imagined and the socio-political consequences of those various treatments of nature. Through image, film, and media analysis, review of social and environmental theory, and political and ecological history in Latin America, students will lead engaged discussions and analyze forms of socio-environmental interaction in order to rethink nature as a site of conflict, controversy, wonder; and, as inherently entangled within scholarly understandings of Latin American history.