GC Week 12 Memo
6 April 2025
What’s Happening Week 12?
This week Après l'hiver, le printemps (After Winter, Spring) takes us to visit family farmers in southwest France, to the Périgord region of the current Dordogne département where families have farmed their land for generations. We find that there—as in many parts of the globe—they “are forced to confront challenges that threaten the very existence of their small farms.” In Après l'hiver, le printemps we witness “an intimate portrait of an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.” As my colleague Dr. Jonathan Deutsch of Drexel University notes, it is "a beautifully shot film that takes complex issues of a globalizing food system and makes them relatable, personable and powerful."
We’ll also take up some persistent 2000+-year-old debates that have been circling the globe for all that time.
And from there we look backwards to catch up, and forwards to drafting your Term Paper and finishing your Presentation.
Week 12 Overview
GC Wk12 OVERVIEW TO BEGIN MODULE 12.
Week 12 Wrap-UP
Questions? / Comments / Suggestions . . .
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Best Wishes,
Tim Roufs
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