Environmental & Climate Justice

Catalog description

This course explores the origins of environmental racism and the pursuit for solutions toward environmental and climate justice. In particular, students examine the continuing legacy of institutionalized racism and the political economy of environmental injustice that contribute to the degradation of environmental conditions in low income and BIPOC communities in North America and around the world. By discussing local and global case studies of environmental injustice and by taking virtual toxic tours students think through possibilities in the Environmental Justice movement for resistance and explore avenues for civic leadership. The course materials and instruction draw from Native American and Indigenous studies, Black studies, biocultural anthropology, abolition geographies, and feminist theory to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on the ongoing project for justice.