Modern natures and postcolonial ecologies

7.5 credits

Crisis of the climate and the environment sweeps the world today. The present urgency has a long history of modern development, excessive extraction, and loss of ecologies and livelihoods. There are also concerted efforts for turning the wheels. The course combines a longterm view on human-nature relations with key events of conflict, conservation, and action.

Spring 2026

Växjö, Half-time, Distance learning

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Växjö, Half-time, Campus

4HI493 Master’s level Cultural Studies Syllabus Half-time, Distance learning 20 English Växjö 19 Jan, 2026 - 29 Mar, 2026 August 15 LNU-F3061

1-90 credits including an independent project of 15 credits in a subject in the humanities or the social sciences or the equivalent, English 6, or the equivalent.

100% Higher Education Credits

13,700 SEK 13,700 SEK

Department of Cultural Sciences

Join a global community at an international university!

This course is an elective course within the master's programme in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. The programme is designed to meet the societal and academic need for a discerning and critical analysis of the impact and consequences of colonialism in history and today. A special focus lies on how the modern world has been shaped through the colonial exercise of power, discourse, networks, and knowledge, and how these factors continue to impact economic, social, cultural, and political relations in postcolonial contemporary society. There is a close collaboration with the international research centre Concurrences.

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