HIS1028H: Planetary Cold War: Society, Technology, and Environment

This graduate seminar reconceptualizes the Cold War by considering its planetary ramifications as a lived, material, and ecological condition that reshaped societies across the world. Beyond the binary standoff between geopolitical powers, the course focuses on how infrastructures, technologies, environments, cultures, and labour were mobilized under Cold War imperatives.

Key topics include everyday mobilization, nuclearity, extractivism, secret cities, spectacle, and ecological afterlives. Readings draw from history, anthropology, cultural studies, and science and technology studies (STS) to situate the Cold War within planetary and deep-time frameworks.

Credit Value (FCE)

0.50

Campus(es)

St. George

Delivery Mode

In Class

School of Graduate Studies University of Toronto 63 St. George Street Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2Z9
Tel: 416-978-6614

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