Criminology 3903 Apocalypse Criminology, weblog winter term 2025-6, MWF 12.30 --> 1.20 MMH202  Outline     Gradesheet

proposal: 
A- 16  B+ 15  B 14.5  B- 14  C 13  C- 12  D 10
classmark: Bonus=A21  10=A-20   9=B18.5  8=B-17.5  7=C16  6=C-15  5=D14  <4=F10

week one jan 5-9
mon:
wed: intro & overview I
fri: cont. II
week five feb 2-6 popcult II
mon: anger&activism Q6
wed: promise of violence Q7
fri: have been a witness Q8
week nine mar 2-6 reading
mon: Uni closed
wed: --------------
fri: -----------------
week thirteen apr 30-3 presentations
mon: storey; hickey
wed: xam prep
fri: Good Friday, closed
week two 12-16 intro
mon: intro to the crisis
wed: cont. Q1
fri: cont. 
week six 9-13 enviro (proposals)
mon: last gen action group
wed: old world dying
fri: toxic in/justice
week ten 9-13 futures I
mon: online video
wed: xtra: war & the apocalypse Q11
fri: the old world is dying -- monsters
week fourteen 6-10 tba
mon: Easter Monday, closed
wed: no class, work on projects
fri: projects due
week three 19-23 theory
mon: theory and its roots
wed: climate apocalypse Q2
fri: capitalism is killing us Q3
week seven 16-20 crisis I
mon: family day, closed
wed: climate change & greed
fri:cont. Q9
week eleven 16-20 post-apoc crim
mon: cowboy vigilantes
wed: doomsday preppers
fri: utopias
week fifteen 13-17
apr 15-22 exam period
Thursday, April 16 at 2:00 PM
week four 26-30 popcult I
mon: reprise Q4
wed: precaria
fri: surveillance in late Q5
week eight 23-27 crisis II
mon: disrupt j20; riots?
wed: standing rock Q10
fri: indigenous activists
wk 12 23-27 presentations 2@15/20mins
mon: branton; eddy
wed: guitard+1 fire;
fri: carr; heagney

week 12: mon23 branton climatechange; eddy climateawareness  wed25 guitard+1 fire  fri27 carr internment camps; heagney greatdepression*
week 13: mon30 simpson racismanxiety*; storey abughraib*  wed01 hickey covidpandemic

crisis cults  dangerous knowledge  sociol imagination  jock young exercise in apocalyptic theory crisis cults despair ends

engagement exercises
:
#1. 1.14. What is the crime control problem and is the surveillance justified? excuseable but not makeupable
#2. 1.21. For Friday, what is an example of good environmental news?
#3. 1.23. How is the concept of 'evil' useful to the analysis?
#4. 1.26. Attendance and participation, excuseable but not makeupable.
#5. 1.30. Impromptu attendance and participation, excuseable but not makeupable.
#6. 2.02. Watch 'Climate Crisis and Capitalism' (https://youtu.be/Pry3d9l5iqQ), and discuss why David Suzuki is angry; one page single-spaced for handin/sendin by Wednesday.
#7. 2.04  Impromptu attendance and participation, excuseable but not makeupable.
#8. 2.06  What was the theme in the video, and why is it important.
#9. 2.20. Read the cbc article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-project-sitka-list-1.5422152 and comment on the extent and significance of the issue
#10. 2.25. Impromptu attendance and participation on the topic of the 'spectacle', excuseable but not makeupable.
xtra. 3.11 re war and the apocalypse, how would you extend the analysis?

online video 3.09:
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-origins-of-the-zombie-from-haiti-to-the-us-kywe4q/ 17mins



readings:
"Renee Good and the Rage that Fuels State Violence," CounterPunch, January 12, 2026, Ruth Fowler, https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/12/renee-good-and-the-rage-that-fuels-state-violence/
"The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means," The Conversation, January 20, 2026, link

music library
:
Eve of Destruction, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-V1t0PLQ2E 4mins Theme: the signs are all around us...
Beds are Burning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E&list=RDejorQVy3m8E&start_radio=1, 4mins Theme: In the fight for Aboriginal land rights and reconciliation, non-Indigenous people are urged to give it back, with the burning bed symbolizing ignored crises like environmental damage.
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, 2mins, https://youtu.be/2595abcvh2M Theme: they paved over paradise and put up a parking lot...
We didn't start the fire," Billy Joel, 4mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5XdFz6fHYQ  Theme: chaos has always existed...
"Aocalypse Now Intro, The Doors: The End," 4mins, https://youtu.be/CIrvSJwwJUE?si=c5PxUTvVZTi99Mjh


videos:
"Climate Disaster: An Oral History | APTN Investigates," 24 mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE50PM5HnN4