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 13 apr 30-3 final classes
mon: storey; hickey; evaluations
wed: wrapup project work
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 Q12
wed: doomsday preppers Q13
fri: utopiasQ14
week fifteen 13-17
apr 15-22 exam period
-- final cancelled --
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
wed: guitard+1; eddy
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.
#11 3.11 re war and the apocalypse, how would you extend the analysis?
#12 3.16 Impromptu attendance and participation on the topic of the 'cowboy vigilantes', excuseable but not makeupable.
13. 3.18. how can we use culture jamming in apocalypse crim? excuseable but not makeupable
14. 3.20 impromptu attendance and participation, excuseable but not makeupable

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