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
wed: promise of violence
fri: have been a witness
week nine mar 2-6 reading
mon: Uni closed
wed: --------------
fri: -----------------
week thirteen apr 30-3 tba
mon: work on projects
wed: cont.
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: despair ends
wed: doomsday preppers
fri: utopias
week fourteen 6-10 tba
mon: Easter Monday, closed
wed: xam prep
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: crisis cults
week eleven 16-20 post-apoc crim
mon: dangerous knowledge
wed: jock young
fri: sociol imagination
week fifteen 13-17
mon: last day of classes
week four 26-30 popcult I
mon: reprise Q4
wed: precaria
fri: surveillance in late
week eight 23-27 crisis II
mon: disrupt j20
wed: standing rock
fri: indigenous activists
week twelve 23-27
mw/f: presentations?
apr 15-22 exam period
apoc theory & roots


engagement exercises:
Q1. 1.14. What is the crime control problem and is the surveillance justified? excuseable but not makeupable
Q2. 1.21. For Friday, what is an example of good environmental news? makeupable
Q3. 1.23. How is the concept of 'evil' useful to the analysis of corporate enviro-crime? excuseable but not makeupable
Q4. 1.26. Attendance and participation, excuseable but not makeupable.

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/

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