Natural Resources Conservation 597EJ - ST-SocialMovements&EnvrJustice

This course examines the relationship between environmental conditions and social justice. Students will consider the social and political forces that differentially distribute vulnerability and contribute to health and socioeconomic disparities between populations. In this course, students will consider both local and global struggles for environmental justice, with case studies that focus on historically marginalized communities in the United States as well as in other countries. Students will read and discuss work by scholars from a range of disciplines as well as by journalists, activists, and policy makers and consider topics including slow violence and toxicity, conservation and social exclusion, disasters and their aftermath, social movements and human rights, and recognition and reparations.