printer friendly pageEARTHSYS 120: Environmental Justice in California (EARTHSYS 220)
Although California is considered a National policy leader in environmental justice, communities across the state struggle for basic environmental rights. Through lectures, readings, and field trips, this course will analyze this contradiction by examining the development of environmental justice movements and environmental justice policy in California. The course will explore how California's political, social, and economic histories inform environmental justice struggles. We will study specific and intersecting challenges facing African American, Indigenous, Latinx, and AAPI communities. This course will include an introduction to theories, such as de-growth and Municipalism, applied in strategies for environmental justice; as well as, analyses of topics ranging from agricultural labor, incarceration, extractive industries, and environmental justice in Silicon Valley.This is a Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Montague, D. (PI)
;
Casagrande, R. (TA)
EARTHSYS 120A: Participatory Public Memory as an Organizing Strategy (EARTHSYS 220A)
This course will engage students in the founding of an on-going interactive public memory project exploring the intersection of history, environmental and climate justice and community action in the Bay Area, in collaboration with the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), based out of Rutgers University. HAL develops collaborative public memory projects about social and environmental justice struggles. Their project, Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice is a partnership network of over 20 Universities and Cities in the U.S. and around the world connecting local experiences to build a translocal ecosystem, through art, history, community engagement and activism. As part of Climates of Inequality, local teams work together to activate the histories of frontline communities: those who have long engaged in struggles to eliminate pollution from their communities and have contributed the least to the climate crisis but bear its heaviest burdens. Their multimedia portraits expose t
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This course will engage students in the founding of an on-going interactive public memory project exploring the intersection of history, environmental and climate justice and community action in the Bay Area, in collaboration with the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), based out of Rutgers University. HAL develops collaborative public memory projects about social and environmental justice struggles. Their project, Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice is a partnership network of over 20 Universities and Cities in the U.S. and around the world connecting local experiences to build a translocal ecosystem, through art, history, community engagement and activism. As part of Climates of Inequality, local teams work together to activate the histories of frontline communities: those who have long engaged in struggles to eliminate pollution from their communities and have contributed the least to the climate crisis but bear its heaviest burdens. Their multimedia portraits expose the roots of current environmental injustice, and share generations of frontline communities' strategies for resistance, resilience, and mitigation. This initial Climates of Inequality partnership will build the foundation for an ongoing participatory project bringing together community organizations throughout the Bay Area in engaged, interactive work interrogating the historical roots of environmental and climate justice crises and community resistance to injustice. The course will partner with the Haas Center for Public Service and Environmental Communications in Earth Systems. This is a Cardinal Course designated by the Haas Center for Public Service.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Montague, D. (PI)
;
Conger, L. (TA)
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