A private university in New York City is offering a course titled “Critical Political Ecology/Economy: From Extraction Regeneration” that puts forward “(eco)feminism” and “(eco)Marxism” as “viable alternatives” to current political structures. 

According to The New School’s website description, the fall course’s premise examines capitalism’s alleged failures from an ecological and economic perspective. Students will study what is “necessary” to “substantiate viable alternatives” to the system. 

The course’s subject matter uses several disciplines to examine how capitalism supposedly “disrupts Earth system processes.”

 “. . . in analyzing the making of the world-system economy/ecology of Euroamerican colonial capitalist modernity, [the course] also charts the histories of alternative social ecologies,” the description says.

The “living history” course seeks to “substantiate viable alternatives and transformative paradigms like (eco)feminism,(eco)Marxism; postcolonialism, decolonialism, Indigenous, post-development, degrowth, post-extractivism, and environmental/climate justice.”