The rise of anti-democratic politics and a worsening climate crisis demand critical and interdisciplinary attention across the social sciences and humanities. Through a humanistic social science lens, this course examines today's dual-pronged democratic and climate crisis through the study of theories of democracy, social change, media, and climate justice. In this course, students will engage with a range of classic and contemporary texts from political theory, media studies, the environmental humanities, decolonial studies, and postcolonial theory, among other fields, to understand how today's present conditions of crisis came to be and what can be done about it. Topics to be discussed include: theories of news, media, and democracy; radical democracy and the green energy transition; petro-nationalism and the settler nation-state; digital capitalism, neoliberalism, and authoritarianism today; climate justice and activist media; the pluriverse and decolonization; internationalism and concepts of solidarity across borders.