This course will explore the manner in which orientalism was used as an ideological tool that mandated and justified (according to colonial powers) the occupation, dispossession, and disinheritance of native populations across the world; stripping them of their land and resources. It will demonstrate how orientalism, colonialism, and capitalism created and continue to maintain the social order and status quo of environmental devastation we are facing today and what hope lies in our return to regenerative practices of agriculture and material production cultivated by native populations across the world.