1. Environmental Apartheid / Environmental Justice
August 18, 2020
4:30-6:00PM
Register: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd--vrT8iG9Ozv6iGu1jsBKjyhLlZLDZX
Readings
Vann R. Newkirk II. “Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow.” The Atlantic, June 5, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/529137/environmental-racism-is-the-new-jim-crow/
“Environmental Justice: History of a Movement.” Indiana Legal Archive. Accessed January 23, 2019. http://www.indianalegalarchive.com/index/
Desmond Tutu. “We Do Not Need Climate Change Apartheid in Adaptation | 2007/8 Human Development Report ‘Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World.’” United Nations, 2008. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/we-do-not-need-climate-change-apartheid-adaptation.
NAACP, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, and Indigenous Environmental Network. “Coal Blooded [Executive Summary],” 2012. https://www.naacp.org/climate-justice-resources/coal-blooded/
Film (to watch at seminar)
Van Jones. TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch. TEDx Talks. Accessed January 23, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=418&v=3WMgNlU_vxQ
2. Resisting Environmental Racism
September 10, 2020
12:00-1:30
Register: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdeitpz4rHN2kvueXuUxhavmFlcbkHJeM
Readings
WRAL. “Warren County Celebration Remembers More Toxic Times :” WRAL.com, September 15, 2012. https://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11552033/
Vann R. Newkirk II. “Fighting Environmental Racism in North Carolina,” January 16, 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/fighting-environmental-racism-in-north-carolina
“Toxic Wastes and Race In the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites.” Commission for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ, 1987. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf
Optional readings
Pellow, David N. “Towards a Critical Environmental Justice Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 13, no. 2 (2016): 221–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X1600014X
Film (to watch at seminar)
Cancer Alley, Louisiana – Victims of Environmental Racism. NowThis, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCT6BO7wlDs
3. Indianapolis and Environmental Justice
October 12, 2020
12:00-1:30
Register:
https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpde6sqDwuHNGkrt0HnskVMfi85R1bT3CF
Readings
“Historical Injustice in the Urban Environment: The Ecological Implications of Residential Segregation in Indianapolis.” Indiana Legal Archive. Accessed January 23, 2019. http://www.indianalegalarchive.com/ej-case-study/
Thiele, Rebecca. “UN Report: Indianapolis Nears Bottom For Sustainability.” News - Indiana Public Media (blog). Accessed January 23, 2019.
https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/report-indianapolis-nears-bottom-sustainability-149526.php
Optional Readings
Waterhouse, Carlton M., and Ravay Smith. “The Lingering Life of Lead Pollution: An Environmental Justice Challenge for Indiana.” Indiana Law Review 49 (2016 2015): 99.
4. Indianapolis and Climate Change
November 5, 2020
5:00-6:30
Register:
https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYocuGqqzMsE9BtvjvzMomhfL3h31TZjBPc
Readings
“In Climate Plan, Indy Places Equity Front and Center.” Accessed January 23, 2019. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/in-climate-plan-indy-places-equity-front-and-center
Sisson, Patrick. “Climate Mayors: The Impact a Year after the U.S. Left the Paris Agreement.” Curbed, May 30, 2018. https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/30/17411024/paris-accord-climate-change-climate-mayors
“Thrive Indianapolis Draft Plan.” Department of Metropolitan Development, November 21, 2018. https://indy.civicomment.org/thrive-indianapolis-draft-plan
5. Corporations and Community Sovereignty
December 3, 2020
4:30-6:00
Register:
https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdO2srD4qGtaJ5-Jq9vAo8myKQvUYOkeY
Readings
Finnegan, William. “Leasing the Rain,” April 1, 2002. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/08/leasing-the-rain
Goldman Environmental Prize. Oscar Olivera: 2001 Goldman Prize Winner, Bolivia, 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-vIbcOL4M
“Bolivia, 15 Years on from the Water War | The Democracy Center.” Accessed January 23, 2019. https://democracyctr.org/article/bolivia-15-years-on-from-the-water-war/
Optional Readings
“Corporate Conquistadors | The Democracy Center.” Accessed January 23, 2019. https://democracyctr.org/resource/corporate-conquistadors/
Yapa, Lakshman. “What Are Improved Seeds? An Epistemology of the Green Revolution.” Economic Geography 69, no. 3 (1993): 254–73. https://doi.org/10.2307/143450
6. Global Justice
January 21, 2020
12:00-1:30
Register: https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0jHqQE_cR8-iejL_nm3nXA
Readings
Pulido, Laura. “Racism and the Anthropocene.” In Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert Emmett, 116–28. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Film (to watch at seminar)
The Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. https://theanthropocene.org/film/
Optional Readings
Sydney Peace Foundation. Dr Vandana Shiva 2010 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtGXd4Vw2c