BSE is assembled through courses, projects, independent studies and internships. We mobilize collaborative, engaged teaching and research methods and ground ourselves in economic anthropology, political ecology, black feminism, and anti-essentialist political economy. We are in dialogue with a broad range of social theory and place-based knowledges. Through this work we aim to:
Transform ourselves: BSE creates lines of connection for students—-material and relational, ideological and historical—-to initiatives, communities, and social movements that are creating the conditions for ways of being in the world that reject and evade the dictates of capitalist modernity, and embrace ways of being that privilege the interdependent well-being of people and planet over profit.
Advance well-being: BSE helps to advance, and amplify initiatives, efforts, and communities that are engaged in such world-making projects
Gain knowledge, skills and joy: BSE develops deep understandings about how culture (broadly conceived) enables and limits what is possible in the world. Students develop a stance of critical curiosity, learn research skills, practice and hone writing and other modes of communication, and center collaborative leadership through both academic and non-academic modes and relations. We build and practice super-fun, caring, joyful relationships!
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